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Voice setup

Browser voices come from your system — install the voice in your OS settings:

  • Windows: Settings → Time & language → Speech → Manage voices → Add voices → select Spanish (Spain)
  • macOS: System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → System voice → Manage voices → download Spanish (Spain)
  • iPhone / iPad setup: Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices → Tap Spanish (Spain), download a voice
  • Android setup: Settings → Language & Input → Text-to-speech output → Tap gear icon next to Google TTS → Install voice data → Download Spanish (Spain) voice
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Pronunciation

Linking words together

Spanish speakers link words: a final consonant joins the next vowel, and vowels flow together. sounds like /loˈsewɾos/, like /ˈkwantoˈes/.

That is why fast Spanish sounds like one long word. When you listen, don't look for gaps between words — and when you speak, don't add pauses or a glottal stop before vowels.

Repeat after the voice

  • los euros — loseuros
  • ¿Cuánto es?
  • Es un abrigo azul.
  • ¿Me lo puedo probar?
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Listen and write

Listen and write. Pay attention to the linked words.