A blog post and an audio version of it are not the same text. Written articles are full of things that read fine and sound wrong: URLs, digits, parenthetical asides, bullet lists. If you feed an article straight into a text-to-speech engine, you pay to generate audio you’ll end up regenerating. Here’s the workflow that avoids that.
Step 1: Prepare the text (free, in your browser)
The TTS Text Prep Studio cleans a text for speech before any audio is generated. It converts numbers into words (English or Turkish), replaces URLs and e-mail addresses with markers, collapses repeated whitespace, turns line breaks into spaces, straightens curly quotes, normalises dashes, and optionally strips special characters while keeping ordinary punctuation. It also counts the characters, so you know the size of the job before you start.
It runs entirely in your browser — the text is never sent to a server at this stage.
One deliberate omission worth knowing about: it shows you character and request counts, not a price in currency. Text-to-speech is billed per character and every plan converts that differently, so a made-up money figure here would be worse than no figure at all.
Step 2: See the cost before you generate
Generation is priced by text length. The AI Text to Speech tool shows the character count and the resulting price for your exact text before you confirm anything — no surprises after the fact. This is also why step 1 matters: cleaning the text first means you only pay for words that belong in the audio.
Step 3: Pick the voice before committing to a long text
Voices that sound similar in a one-line demo diverge over ten minutes of listening. Generate a short passage with a few different voices and choose by ear, using one paragraph of your article rather than the whole thing.
Our AI Text Translator & Voice Compare tool is built for exactly this side-by-side comparison. Be aware of one limitation before you click: its interface is currently in Turkish only, though the voices it previews are not.
Step 4: Generate, then spot-check
Generate the full article, then listen to the beginning, one section from the middle, and the end. The most common issues are pronunciation of names and technical terms — if one matters to your content, consider rewording it or spelling it phonetically in the source text and regenerating just that section.
What to expect honestly
An audio version does not automatically create an audience — it gives the audience you already have another way to consume the same content, and it makes your articles accessible to people who can’t or don’t read on screen. Publish a few, see whether your readers use them, and decide from your own data whether to continue. That’s a cheap experiment precisely because the preparation step is free and the generation cost is visible up front.
If your source is a whole book rather than an article, that’s a different job with different preparation — see turning a PDF or EPUB into an audiobook.