Voice library
Design your own Standard German (Hochdeutsch) voice
Design the Standard German (Hochdeutsch) voice your product needs, described in your own words and generated in seconds. Start from one of the voices below, or write a prompt and Gradium builds yours. Either way you get a voice id you call from the API or the SDK with no setup.
- Any gender, any age
- Design a Standard German (Hochdeutsch) voice at whatever gender and age range your product needs, from one prompt.
- Textures in this set
- Bright
- Styles available
- Conversational, Formal & Professional, Journalism, Customer Service and Education
Hear it
- LorenaGerman · Young Adult · Female0:00
A few of them
to listen to
One from each of the things this accent is used for, so you can hear the range before you write anything.
- Alexander
Adult · Male · Conversational
A warm German adult voice that reports with journalistic integrity and a resonant tone.
0:00xki1DK6Ks6tuDmcb - Christian
Adult · Male · Formal & Professional
A joyful and smooth German adult voice that reports with energy and professionalism.
0:00WxHB2b5HxA0Kuq5u - Florian
Adult · Male · Journalism
A warm German adult voice that delivers news with a high resonant clarity.
0:00XnSnbQW98he4aULg - Femke
Young Adult · Female · Customer Service
A joyful young German voice at medium-high pitch, warm and bubbly, a bright, friendly receptionist who puts every caller at ease.
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Another 57 Standard German (Hochdeutsch) voices are in the catalogue, with the rest of the library. Sign in to hear them all, or design one of your own from a prompt.
What makes Standard German (Hochdeutsch)
sound like itself
Each feature below is something the prompt has to encode, or something a careless prompt will accidentally undo.
- Final devoicing
- Voiced stops at the end of a syllable devoice, so Tag ends in a k sound and Rad in a t. Auslautverhärtung is not optional and not an accent feature, and a voice that fails it does not read as a native speaker.
- Glottal stops before vowels
- German inserts a glottal stop before vowel-initial syllables, which is why beobachten has audible breaks that an English speaker would smooth over. Requesting a very smooth or legato read works directly against this.
- The ich-Laut and ach-Laut
- The ch in ich and the ch in Bach are different sounds, palatal and velar, selected by the preceding vowel. A prompt that pushes for softness can pull the velar one forward and make the read sound regionally coloured rather than standard.
Or design a
standard german (hochdeutsch) voice
The library is a starting point, not a limit. Describe the voice you want and Voice Design generates it.
A German male voice, 40 to 55, for conversational: calm and crisp, with mid-low pitch, steady natural pacing, medium energy and warm rounded resonance. Ideal for reassuring walkthroughs, empathic de-escalation and complex IT support.
Try Alexander
in the studio
Open a voice, type your own script, and listen. Same endpoints, same SDK and same latency whether you pick one from the library or design your own.