Text to speech · macOS
Select text anywhere on your Mac and press one button. An AI director senses the tone — a joke, a memo, a French paragraph — and a lifelike voice speaks it back with real expression, streamed so it starts in about a second.
free every day·Pro $12/mo·selections never logged
Thanks again for Saturday — honestly, I can't remember the last time we laughed that hard. Same place next month? Let me know what works.
[warm] honestly, I can't remember the last time we laughed that hard. [chuckles] [pause] Same place next month?
Highlight text in any app — an email, an article, a code review, a message thread. A small button appears right at the end of your selection.
Click it (or press the global hotkey). The AI director reads the text and its context, then scores the performance — tone, pacing, pauses, even the accent a French phrase deserves.
A lifelike voice starts speaking in about a second, streamed as it's generated. Click again to stop; select something new and it follows you.
System text-to-speech reads words. Accentwork performs them — and treats what you selected as none of anyone's business.
Mail, Safari, Slack, your editor, a PDF — if you can select it, Accentwork can speak it. No plugins, no per-app setup, nothing to paste.
An AI director reads the room before the voice reads the words — a joke lands like a joke, code is read calmly, a heated email gets its weight.
Your selection is processed to make audio, never logged or stored — only a salted hash and a character count. Password managers, banking, and health apps are excluded on the device.
One global hotkey speaks the current selection from anywhere. Press it again to stop. Your hands never leave the keys, and the button never steals focus.
Sign in and every day comes with a free listening allowance — no card, no clock running out. When your days get bigger than the allowance, Pro lifts the cap for $12/month and puts you first in line at busy hours. Cancel anytime; the free tier never goes away.
System text-to-speech reads every sentence the same flat way. Accentwork sends your selection through an AI director first, which decides how it should sound — playful, calm, urgent, technical — and hands a lifelike voice a marked-up script. You hear delivery, not dictation.
Yes. It reads the text you select through macOS accessibility, so it works wherever you can highlight text — browsers, mail, editors, chat apps, PDFs. No extensions or plugins.
A daily listening allowance, refreshed every day, with the full experience — expressive direction, streaming, every voice. It's a real free tier, not a countdown: it never expires. Pro simply lifts the daily cap.
It's sent securely to our service, turned into audio, and not kept: we never log or store your selection — only a salted fingerprint and a character count, so repeats can play instantly. Sensitive apps like password managers are excluded on your Mac before anything is sent.
Yes — a free Accentwork account keeps your daily allowance and settings in sync and is how the app talks to our service. Sign up in the app in under a minute; no card needed.
Any Mac running macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple silicon or Intel. It lives in your menu bar and asks for one accessibility permission — never your microphone, camera, or screen recording.
Anytime, from your account page — you keep Pro until the end of the billing period, then land back on the free plan. Questions or a hiccup? [email protected] reaches a human.
Install Accentwork, select a sentence anywhere, and hear the difference in the first second. Free every day.