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Converting Text to Speech on FL Studio: 2 Techniques

Everyone knows FL Studio as a music production software, but did you know it can also convert text to speech?

Yep, it’s true!

Like those popular synthesis platforms, FL Studio has a built-in Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology that reads aloud text input.

In this article, I’ll show you how to convert text to speech on FL Studio using the stock speech synthesizer and other compatible third-party plugins.

Using Speech Synthesizer (Stock Plugin)

Using Third-Party Plugins

Speech Synthesizer is a built-in synthesizer on FL Studio . It’s only available for the Windows versions of FL Studio.

If you are using MacOS, check out third-party Text-to-Speech plugins .

Note that you can’t find the built-in Speech Synthesizer plugin in FL’s plugin database, but you can access it by following these steps:

Open the Browser window and scroll down to the “ Speech ” folder.

If you can’t find the browser window, click the “ View ” button on the menu panel . This will open up a drop-down menu. (see the image below for reference)

From this menu, click and activate “ Browser ” under the windows section. Once you activate, there will be a tick mark near this option.

Once you see the browser window and open the “ Speech ” folder. Now you’ll see a similar window (as the image below).

Now drag and drop (import) any speech files from the list to FL’s Channel rack.

draging and droping a speech file to FL Studio

Once you do this, it’ll open up the Speech properties interface of Speech Synthesizer.

In this window, on the text box , you can type in or paste the text for which you want to generate speech.

The speech properties window of Speech Synthesizer

After you type in the text, you can use the preview button next to it to playback the reference voice.

If unsatisfied with the output, you can tweak some settings under the Voice character window.

The personality setting gives you a series of vocal textures like male, female, robotic, martian, child, old woman, troll, nerd, choirboy, etc.

You can use it to instantly change the tonality of the generated voice.

Under the style settings , you have four options: natural , monotone , sing , and random .

Each of these options plays around with the pitch of the voice. In my testing, I found “ natural ” to be more realistic.

The mode settings have three options, normal , breathy , and whispered . It adds some noise to the voice, making it sound “airy” as you go up the settings.

Word rate/Word Per Minute (WPM) setting defines how fast the words are spoken. Here, you have to set the value in numerals.

For example, if you set it to 20, the synthesizer will play 20 words per minute.

The next control you have over the voice is the pitch keyboard . Here you can set the pitch of voice using a virtual keyboard interface.

I got a good speech output in my testing using the following settings:

Once you are happy with the output, press the Accept button in the Speech properties interface.

It’ll process the text and open up a file explorer window asking you to name and save the speech file (shown in the image below). Click Save to store the file on your computer.

With the speech file, a WAV file will also be saved. It’ll then automatically load up this WAV file on a sampler in the channel rack of FL Studio (as shown below).

Speech sample added to the Channel rack on the FL studio

You can now easily link the generated speech sample to a mixer track to further add other effects like auto-tune, reverb, etc.

Convert Text to Speech on FL Studio Using Third-Party Plugins

Since the stock Speech Synthesizer on FL Studio is not as flexible as regular text-to-speech generators, you can also consider using third-party plugins to get more control over the voice output.

Following are some of the best compatible plugins that can convert text to speech on FL Studio. They will also work on other DAWs.

Among the paid Vocaloid and Chipspeech plugins, Chipspeech is less memory intensive and can run on PCs with minimal features.

They both can cost anywhere between $100 – $150. You can try their demo/trial versions to make a better decision.

Among the free-to-use plugins, Alter/Ego is memory intensive but has a larger sound bank.

VST Speek, on the other hand, is relatively light as it only has a single robotic sound and lets you adjust basic parameters like pitch, speed, mouth, throat, etc.

Final Thoughts – Will it Sound Good?

With Speech Synthesizer, you can easily convert text to speech on FL Studio, but unfortunately, it doesn’t give out a best-sounding output.

You’ll have to rely on some effects plugins to make it sound quite realistic, but if you only require an artificial-sounding output, Speech Synthesizer is enough.

There are also some great free and paid text-to-speech converters available. You can try those out if you want something different.

I hope this guide has helped you convert text to speech on FL Studio.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to change voice in fl studio.

You can change the voice on FL Studio using different effects plugins. FL Studio has a lot of stock plugins that you can use to change voice free of cost.

How do I make my voice deeper in FL Studio?

You can make your voice deeper in FL Studio by reducing the pitch. To do this, add a vocal effects plugin like NewTone and turn the pitch knob to a negative value. For a much deeper voice, turn the pitch knob all the way to the left (increase the negative value).

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How To Create Computerized Vocals In FL Studio Without Vocalist

In this tutorial, I will show you how you can make your computer to talk and use it in your electronic music. In FL Studio, there’s a Speech Synthesizer which renders a typed text to audio. Of course, it will sound a bit monotonous and machine like talk, but that might be exactly what you’re looking for. Use it with a good taste, and you can make your songs rock!

Here’s a sound example:

And this is how you create it.

Go to the the Channels -> Add one and select Speech synthesizer. Pop-up dialog will open (the Speech synthesizer is not a stand-alone instrument, it is a pop-up dialog that processes text to audio then renders the result as a sliced Audio Clip). In the text box you enter the text you want the speech synth to render to audio. Click the ‘Listen’ button to audition it. Under the Voice -section, there’s a various ways to change the characteristics of the voice such as the speed and pitch.

To make the voice sound like in the example, choose Robotoid (default) under the ‘Personality’ -menu and type the following text:

hello world fls(1) talking(-2) here you can make it talk if(-6) you(-6) want(-6)

If you wonder what those numbers enclosed in parentheses does, they change the pitch of a separate word by semitones. So the word “fls” is pitched up by one semitone, the word “talking” is pitched down by two semitones and so on.

Okay, moving on: leave the other settings as is, and press Accept. The entered text will be rendered to sliced audio clip (If you have changed some of the settings in the dialog, you will be prompted to save the preset with a new name. It will be saved as .speech (speech synthesizer) file. By default, it will be saved to “FL Studio\Data\Patches\Speech” -folder and you can import them to your future projects by locating the folder via the Browser, right clicking on the preset and choosing ‘Open in new Fruity Slicer channel’).

Now, the slices will be automatically dumped to Piano Roll as notes. Each slice is a word and you can move around, re-arrange and duplicate them as you like.

You can also edit the slices a little (such as slice fade in/out, pitch shift, slicing threshold, etc) by opening the Fruity Slicer.

Ok. To make the vocals in sync with the project tempo (and to replicate the example), head to the Piano Roll and edit the notes like this (turn on the metronome to make the syncing easier):

Alright. The vocals are sounding a bit too plain as is so assign the Slicer to a free mixer track and drop a Fruity Fast Dist to the effect slot and set it like this:

Also, add Fruity Blood Overdrive to the effect slot and set it as follows:

Now, check the results:

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18 comments.

Amazing stuff, Petri!

For sure this tutorial might appear useful for people, who are trying to work with techno, electro & harder dance styles (actually I”m one of them)!

And I always liked so much that voice of Decepticon’s SoundWave in epic serial of 80-s – ‘Transformers’! 🙂 BTW, StarWars also used them a lot.

THX for nice tutorial, man!

Thank u Max!

hey man that was a great tutorial!! it really helped a lot. but there is one other thing i was wondering, and it was how exactly did you or do you make that kind of a drum beat in FL?? kus im not too sure what style or genre of music that would go in so i dont know what to search! haha anyway thanks fer the wonderful tutorial!

Thanks for checking the tutorial and glad you’re finding it helpful !

I’m not quite sure in what genre that drum beat actually falls into. I just quickly made it by laying a kick drum, snare to the Step Sequencer and drumloop (from Vengeance Essential House 2 sample collection) on top of it.

I liked the mouse dance anyways! 🙂

Hehe ! I actually got the idea to add mouse dance to the videos from Dave @ Boyinaband – Check his Reason tutorial videos – he’s awesome !

i can’t find it even when i open more to look for it . How can i get it ? & thanks very much 🙂

Can you be more specific what you can’t find?

i didn t even know there was a speech recreation! i didn t use the distorion, but i found delay and hardcore with big gaps between words more appropriate for dance music thanks again

i just to replicate my voice to be the same as the laptop when using this program but how can i do this i just want this program to have the same voice as me. if someone knows anything that can replicate the same voice as me that would be grateful because i would like to use a laptop to speak rather than talking instead.

download link??

Hey petri i luv ths site bt cn u help me on how t creat a real hiphop bassline please help me coz im having troubls on creating a massive bassline

ahh so sweet,…vintage tutorial always welcome to me school…

I used vocodex to make the melody instead of putting the numbers to regulate the modulation, is it more viable?

I haven’t tried this yet but I’ll try when I get home. I have only thing this to say, Petri. THIS IS A FREAKIN’ AWESOME STUFF! COOL, PETRI!!! I’ll try to make a new electronic piece with a singing robot! I feel like, oh man this is the sound of the future! Thanks for sharing this tutorial, Petri.

i wanna know how to add my own vocals into a track , i tried newtone and slicex it works only with the fls vocals but not real once , can u plz help me