Natural-voice text to speech for Stellaris

Text worth hearing in Stellaris

• Event chains
• Anomalies
• First contact
• Archaeology sites
• Situation logs
• Species and trait descriptions
• Tooltips

Press CtrlShiftE and draw a box round any of it to hear it read aloud.

Stellaris already talks, in your Windows voice

Stellaris has its own text to speech. In the settings' Accessibility tab you can turn on Text to speech and Text to speech (Tooltips), and the Sound tab has a Text to speech volume slider, as a popular Steam community guide walks through. It speaks with the voice set in Windows, so speed and language follow your Windows settings rather than the game's.

If that voice works for you, keep using it: it is free and built in. Plenty of players find the standard Windows voices robotic, which is why community guides and projects exist that route Stellaris through more natural voices by changing Windows voice settings or installing a bridge.

What Corvo Reader adds

Natural AI voices for whatever you box: anomaly and event chains, first contact, archaeology site chapters, situation logs, and species and trait descriptions. Press Ctrl+Shift+E, draw a box round the text, and hear it. Nothing to change in Windows and nothing to install in the game.

Save the event window as a region and it reads with one key.

Long event chains, summarized

On paid plans, Summarize gives you the short version of a long event chain or archaeology chapter, and Translate helps if you play in a second language.

Using both readers

If the game's own text to speech stays on while you use Corvo Reader, you may hear two voices at once. Turning the game's option off while you use Corvo avoids the overlap, and you can switch it back on any time.