Chinese Text to Speech
Paste your characters, pick one of 8 Mandarin voices, 4 female and 4 male, and hear the read stream back within seconds. It lands on a timeline, ready for footage, Chinese captions and music.
Chinese Text to Speech Features
EchoWave's Chinese text to speech is used by language teachers, marketers and video creators around the world.
Mandarin voiceovers
Mandarin narration without a recording booth
Most Chinese text to speech sites hand you an MP3 and leave the video for later. EchoWave generates the voice inside the editor where the video actually gets made. It runs on the same engine as our general text to speech and AI voice generator tools, applied here to Mandarin scripts, and it pairs with the add voice over to video workflow, captions and subtitle translation.
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8
Mandarin voices, 4 female and 4 male
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63
AI voices in the full catalog
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176
caption presets that render Chinese characters
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86
subtitle translation languages
What you get
Everything a Mandarin voiceover needs in one tab
Generate the voice, then finish the entire video without leaving the browser.
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Chinese text to speech inside a real video editor
Type or paste Chinese characters, pick one of 8 Mandarin voices and generate. The audio appears as a clip on a multi-track timeline next to your footage, so pacing decisions happen in the edit, with no downloads and re-uploads between tools.
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Streaming preview in seconds
Generation streams, so you hear the opening of a paragraph while the rest is still rendering. Catch a flat sentence or a misread name early, adjust the script and run it again before you have committed to a full take.
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8 Mandarin voices, honestly counted
Four female and four male Mandarin voices, inside a 63-voice catalog that covers 8 languages plus 9 multilingual expressive voices. Dedicated TTS sites list bigger libraries, and we say so plainly in the comparison below. The trade is that these voices live where your video does.
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Chinese captions with native character rendering
Auto-captions transcribe the finished voiceover with word-level timestamps and render CJK characters cleanly across 176 caption presets, including karaoke styles with active-word fill. Burned-in subtitles are the norm on Chinese platforms, and here they are one click rather than a separate job.
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Bilingual Chinese and English subtitles
Show hanzi on one line and English on the second, the format viewers expect on learning channels and cross-border content. Subtitle translation, a Pro feature, covers 86 languages, so one Mandarin transcript can carry English, Japanese or Spanish subs for different exports.
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Audiograms and visualizers for voice-only pieces
When there is no footage, give the narration something to look at. 93 visualizer styles, from waveforms to spectrum bars, turn a Mandarin voice track into an audiogram for announcements and podcast-style clips.
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Timing control on the timeline
Split the voice clip between sentences, nudge lines to match cuts, and change speed from 0.1x to 16x when a passage needs more room. Beat detection adds a snap-to-beat grid if the voiceover sits over music you bring in.
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Echo can assemble it for you
Echo, the AI assistant inside the editor, has 39 editing tools and can generate the AI voice over, add captions in any of the 176 presets and set keyframes on command. It makes a checkpoint before big changes, so one click reverts anything it did.
How it works
How to turn Chinese text into speech
From script to finished Mandarin voiceover in four steps.
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Open a free project
Start at echowave.io in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, no install needed. Drop in footage or images, or begin with a blank canvas if the piece is narration first and visuals second.
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Paste your Chinese script
Open the AI voice panel, paste your characters and choose one of the 8 Mandarin voices. Playback streams back within seconds, so audition a paragraph and settle on a voice before generating the whole script.
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Caption and translate
Run auto-captions to get word-timed Chinese subtitles and style them with one of 176 presets. Add a second subtitle line in English or, on Pro, any of 86 translation languages if your audience reads both.
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Preview and export
The free plan exports HD 720p MP4 with a small removable watermark badge; paid plans remove it and add 1080p, 4K and audio-only formats.
Who uses it
What people make with Mandarin AI voices
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Localized product explainers
Keep the visuals from your English demo and rebuild the narration in Mandarin for Chinese-speaking customers. Add burned-in Chinese captions so the video still works with the sound off.
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Chinese learning content
Teachers build listening drills and vocabulary videos with a consistent voice, then pair it with bilingual subtitles so students see hanzi and English together. Speed control down to 0.25x slows a drill for beginners without regenerating audio.
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Short-form video narration
Voice a 9:16 vertical edit for audiences on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or YouTube. EchoWave has no direct publishing, so you download the MP4 and post it yourself, which also means nothing locks you into one platform.
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Podcast clips and audiograms
Pair a Mandarin voice track with one of 93 visualizer styles and a caption preset for a clip that works in a feed. Export it as MP4 on any plan, including free.
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Batch videos from templates
Build a template with text placeholders, then render variations from a CSV upload, up to 100 rows per batch. A vocabulary series or a product line in Mandarin becomes a spreadsheet job, drivable by REST API or MCP.
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Training and course modules
Narrate internal training or course lessons in Mandarin with word-timed captions for accessibility. Export a clean MP4 that drops into your LMS or intranet as a standard video file.
Compare
How EchoWave compares
| Feature | EchoWave | ElevenLabs | VEED | Kapwing |
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| Mandarin Chinese AI voices | yes (8 voices) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free text to speech generation | Yes | yes (10,000 chars per month) | yes (limited) | yes (limited) |
| Built-in multi-track video editor | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Auto captions that render Chinese characters | yes (176 presets) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Bilingual dual-language subtitles | Yes | No | No | No |
| Subtitle translation | yes (Pro, 86 languages) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Voice cloning | yes (paid) | yes (paid) | yes (paid) | yes (paid) |
| AI dubbing of existing audio | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Royalty-free stock music library | Yes | yes (AI music) | Yes | Yes |
| Voice library in the thousands | no (63 voices) | Yes | No | No |
| Free video export | yes (720p, watermark badge) | No | yes (watermark) | yes (watermark) |
Based on each tool's public pages as of July 2026. Voice counts and free tiers change often, so check current plans before you commit.
Give your next video a Mandarin voice
Generate the narration, caption it in Chinese and export, all in one browser tab. Free to start, and the watermark badge lifts on any paid plan.
How creators use EchoWave in real projects
About the EchoWave team
EchoWave is a browser-based video and audio editor built by Lemon Vault LLC since 2018. The people who build the editor write these guides and test every step in the production app before publishing.
Chinese Text to Speech FAQ
Is the Mandarin voice generator free to use?
Yes. You can generate Mandarin speech, edit the video and export on the free plan, which renders HD 720p MP4 with a small removable EchoWave badge and a short branded end card. Paid plans remove both and add 1080p, 4K and audio-only formats.
How many Chinese voices does EchoWave have?
Eight Mandarin voices, four female and four male, out of a 63-voice catalog covering 8 languages plus 9 multilingual expressive voices. That is a smaller library than a dedicated TTS provider offers, and we would rather say so than pad the number. The trade is that these voices sit inside a full video editor.
Does it read Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters?
The voices speak standard Mandarin and read Chinese characters directly, with no pinyin conversion step. If your script uses Traditional characters, preview a paragraph first; streaming playback starts in seconds, so confirming a read costs nothing before you generate the whole script.
How does it handle Mandarin tones and polyphonic characters?
The neural voices read whole sentences in context rather than character by character, which is what carries tone contours and picks the likely reading for polyphones like the character in a word for bank versus a word for walking. No engine gets every polyphonic character right, so preview names and rare characters and swap in a synonym if a reading lands wrong.
Can I download the Mandarin audio as an MP3?
Audio-only exports need a paid plan: MP3 and M4A from Creator, WAV and FLAC from Pro. On the free plan you export the finished piece as a 720p MP4 video, which covers most social posts. Since the voiceover usually ends up in a video anyway, many people never need the separate audio file.
Does EchoWave have Cantonese text to speech?
No. The Chinese voices are Mandarin only, all eight of them, and we will not pretend otherwise. If you need Cantonese, generate it with a dedicated TTS provider, then bring the audio file into EchoWave to edit, caption and export the video.
Can EchoWave dub my English video into Chinese?
Not automatically; there is no AI dubbing, so the original audio track is never re-voiced for you. What works today: transcribe the English, translate the subtitles into Chinese (a Pro feature) from the 86-language catalog, then write a Mandarin script and generate a new voice track to replace the original narration.
Can I clone my own voice instead of using the stock Mandarin voices?
Voice cloning exists on EchoWave as a paid feature. The eight stock Mandarin voices are available on every plan, including free, so most projects start there and add cloning only when a specific voice has to carry a brand.
What is the best Chinese text to speech for videos?
It depends where the audio ends up. If you need a huge voice library or fine pronunciation controls, a dedicated tool like ElevenLabs has far more Mandarin options. If the destination is a video, generating the voice on the same timeline where you cut footage, add Chinese captions and export saves the download and upload shuffle, and that is exactly what EchoWave is built for.
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