Read Spanish aloud in a natural voice
Lullula reads Spanish web pages, Google Docs and PDFs with a neural Spanish narrator and highlights each sentence as it speaks. For learners, heritage speakers and anyone with a Spanish reading list. Free, no account needed.
Free · No account needed · Chrome, Edge and Firefox
Dalia is one of Lullula's Spanish narrators. Press play and she introduces herself in Spanish. The other pills are the same engine in a few other languages, for comparison.
These are premium neural voices. Without an account, try them with a one-time allowance of about 500 words, plus 10 AI summaries from a separate allowance. A free account adds about 2,000 premium words a month, shared with AI summaries. Built-in browser voices are free and unlimited.
How to have Spanish text read aloud
Three steps, and nothing to set up beyond installing the extension.
Install Lullula
Add the free extension from the Chrome Web Store, Edge Add-ons or Firefox Add-ons. No account needed.
Open something in Spanish
A BBC Mundo or El País article, a Spanish Wikipedia entry, a newsletter, a Google Doc from class, a text-based or scanned PDF.
Press play
Lullula recognises that the page is Spanish and reads it with a Spanish narrator, sentence by sentence. Adjust the speed, skip back a sentence, or switch narrator.
Where Spanish text to speech helps
For learners, heritage speakers and anyone who reads Spanish more slowly than they understand it.
BBC Mundo, El País and the daily news
Skim the headlines yourself, then let a Spanish narrator read the article while you do something else. If you're short on time, the AI summary gives you the gist first.
Spanish Wikipedia
Long entries with unfamiliar vocabulary are easier to follow when a voice sets the pace and the current sentence is highlighted. Sign in and Lullula remembers where you stopped.
Shadowing for learners
Slow the narrator toward 0.5x, repeat each sentence as it's highlighted, then skip back and try it again. Speed it up as you get comfortable.
Heritage speakers
If you grew up hearing Spanish but read it slowly, hearing the text while you follow the highlighted sentence connects the Spanish you know by ear to the words on the page.
What it can't do (yet)
Lullula reads text. A few limits are worth knowing before you install.
Mixed-language pages
Lullula picks one narrator per page from the page's language. A Spanish article with a few English quotes is read by the Spanish narrator throughout, and a mostly-English page with some Spanish in it gets the English narrator. It doesn't switch voices mid-page.
PDFs and EPUBs on your own disk
A file from your computer: in Chrome and Edge, turn on the extension’s access to file URLs once (on its details page). In Firefox, open the PDF and drop it onto the panel Lullula shows; EPUB files from your disk don’t open in Firefox. Pages on the web need nothing extra.
DRM-protected books
E-books bought with copy protection, which includes most Kindle and store purchases, can't be opened. DRM-free EPUBs read fine, with the same highlighting and speed control as a web page.
Questions, answered
Which Spanish accent does it use?
Dalia, the narrator in the sample above, is one of several Spanish narrators, and the sample is the best way to judge how she sounds. If you'd rather hear a different voice, choose another Spanish narrator and Lullula will use it on every Spanish page.
Does it work on El País and BBC Mundo?
Yes. They're text pages, so open the article and press play. Lullula reads the article itself rather than the menus and related-story boxes around it.
Can I slow it down for shadowing practice?
Yes. Speed runs from 0.5x to 2x. Skip back a sentence to hear it again, and once you sign in Lullula remembers where you stopped, so you can come back to a long text later and carry on.
Is it free?
Yes. Built-in browser voices are free and unlimited, no account needed. Try premium neural voices like Dalia with a one-time allowance of about 500 words, plus 10 AI summaries from a separate allowance. A free account adds about 2,000 premium words a month, shared with AI summaries. If you want more premium listening, Pro is $7.99 a month, or $5 a month billed yearly ($59.99 a year).
Does it work on my phone?
Not yet. Lullula is an extension for desktop Chrome, Edge and Firefox. Mobile apps are coming soon.
Is what I read private?
We don't monitor pages you don't ask Lullula to read, and we don't sell your data. A premium voice sends the page's text to our servers to turn into audio; built-in voices are your browser's own speech engine (some browsers' online voices send the text to their provider). AI summaries send the page's text to our servers and an AI provider (you can turn summaries off in the extension's settings). The privacy policy names every service involved.
Start listening in Spanish
Install Lullula, open a Spanish page, press play. Free, no account needed.
Other languages: Japanese, French, German and Chinese — or see text to speech in 80+ languages. Lullula also reads Google Docs, PDFs and EPUBs aloud.
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