Feature
Read aloud: listen to AI answers in ClawAI
How ClawAI reads an answer aloud with server-generated speech: playback that starts early, pause and stop controls, long-answer handling and no charge for failed parts.
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How playback works
Each assistant message has a Read aloud button with play, pause and stop. The answer is converted in parts, and playback starts as soon as the first short part is ready, so you are not waiting for a long answer to be processed in full before you hear anything.
Long answers and other languages
Up to 12,000 characters of an answer are read, and you are told when an answer was longer than that and playback was cut short. Sentences are split correctly for Latin, Arabic, Hindi and Chinese, Japanese and Korean text, so a multilingual answer does not stumble at every full stop.
Voices, availability and billing
Voices come from Gemini or OpenAI text-to-speech models, chosen by the operator. Read aloud is a plan feature; if no voice has been assigned, the button tells you so instead of failing silently. Parts that fail to generate are not charged.
Questions people ask
- Does read aloud use my browser’s voice?
- No. Speech is generated on the server by a Gemini or OpenAI text-to-speech model, so it sounds the same on every device and browser.
- Can it read a very long answer?
- It reads up to 12,000 characters of one answer and tells you when the answer was longer than that, so you know playback stopped early.
- Am I charged if read aloud fails?
- Only for the parts that were actually generated. A part that fails is not charged, and you can play the answer again.
Try it rather than take our word for it
Read aloud is a plan feature that uses a server-side text-to-speech model the operator assigns; it is not the browser speech engine.