Can ChatGPT do text to speech?

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ChatGPT will read its replies out loud, but it will not give you the audio. Read Aloud and voice mode play speech on every plan, Free included, and neither exports a file, so there is no mp3 for a video, a course or a podcast. OpenAI sells downloadable speech only through its developer API, which means code and a separate bill.

the catchScreen-recording the playback is the workaround people actually use, and it sounds like it. Nothing in the chat generates music or sound effects either.

checked 2026-09-21 · by dan scutaru

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