Russian pronunciation & text reader
Hear Russian words and short passages with a Russian device voice. Choose a voice and speed, pause playback and replay segments while practicing pronunciation.
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Replay one segment, then repeat it aloud.
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Audio uses your selected device voice. Some voices require an internet connection. Long text is divided into short segments; highlighting follows the segment, not individual words. If pause is unreliable on your device, stop and replay a segment.
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Привет!
Я изучаю русский язык.
Сегодня я хочу прочитать новую историю.
Listen, pause, then repeat
- Choose one short segment and listen for the stressed syllable.
- Replay it at a slower speed, then say it aloud without the audio.
- Return to normal speed and compare the rhythm. Use a whole sentence as your model, not a Latin spelling.
This reader models speech; it does not record your voice or score your pronunciation. Synthetic voices can misread stress and homographs. Adding an acute accent does not reliably control device speech, so teaching acute marks are omitted from the spoken input; ё remains distinct.
Use the stress marker to review possible stresses and ё restoration before listening. It offers dictionary readings, not guaranteed context disambiguation.
What to listen for in Russian
Stress and vowel reduction
In молоко́, the final vowel is stressed. Unstressed vowels can sound different from their written letters. Moving the stress can change a word’s meaning, as in за́мок (castle) and замо́к (lock).
Hard and soft consonants
Compare брат and брать. The soft sign does not add a vowel: it signals a change in the preceding consonant. Softness is a property of the consonant, not a separate “y” syllable.
Voicing at word endings
Final voiced obstruents are normally devoiced: the final written б in хлеб sounds like п. The spelling remains хлеб. Listen to sounds in context rather than reading one Latin letter per Cyrillic letter.
Letters do not always name sounds
Е, ё, ю and я interact with neighbouring letters, and ь and ъ have no independent vowel sound. Start with the alphabet trainer for letter names and basic sound notes.
For further pronunciation guidance, see Gramota’s explanation of unstressed vowels. For longer listening, use Russian stories with narration.
Make sense of what you’re practicing
Use short passages for useful repetition
Start with one or two sentences. Listen once for meaning, then focus on stress and rhythm. Slow playback can help you hear a consonant or ending, but return to normal speed so the phrase does not become a string of isolated syllables.
A Russian voice must be available
The reader selects only voices labelled Russian by your browser. If none are available, install a Russian speech voice in your device settings and reload the page. Voice quality, pronunciation and pause support depend on the browser and device.
Speech synthesis is a model, not a pronunciation judge
The tool does not listen to you or grade your accent. Synthetic voices can choose the wrong stress for an ambiguous word, especially outside a sentence. Compare important words with dictionary stress information and existing story narration.