Show people how to say your name
Nobody should have to guess whether 東 is Azuma or Higashi, or how Siobhán sounds. Put the answer on a card once and attach it to your signature, your podcast page, your onboarding.
- Runs entirely in your browser
- Works offline
- No upload
- No sign-up
- No watermark
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How it works
- Type the name, its reading and how to say it (capitals for the stressed part).
- Optionally preview it with a voice on your device, then record the real thing with your microphone — three seconds.
- Download the card as PNG, the audio as WAV, or a single HTML file with the audio embedded.
Why nothing is uploaded
Every operation on this page is done by code running inside your browser tab, using the same engine that renders web pages. The file is read from disk into your tab’s memory, transformed there, and written back out as a download. It is never sent anywhere — not to us, not to a third party.
Verify it yourself
- Open your browser’s developer tools (F12) and select the Network tab.
- Load your file and run the tool.
- The only requests you will see fetch the tool’s own code — and, for a few heavy tools, their open-source engine from a public CDN — plus one small page-view ping to loreatec.jp (page address and title, nothing more). None of them carry your file.
Frequently asked questions
Why record my own voice instead of a computer voice?
Because the point of the card is how *you* say your name, and no synthesiser knows that — least of all for names, where the usual rules fail. Your voice also carries the tone and rhythm a respelling cannot. The recording is made and stored only in this tab until you download it.
Why can’t I download the preview voice?
Browsers offer speech synthesis for playback only; there is no API to capture it as audio, and this site does not use server-side text-to-speech. Also, only voices installed on your device are offered — the “online” voices some browsers ship would send the text to a third party.
What is a respelling?
A spelling that follows everyday reading habits instead of the original orthography, with the stressed syllable in capitals: “SHIV-awn”, “ah-ZOO-mah”. It is not the IPA and does not try to be — it is what a colleague can actually read aloud.
How do I share the HTML card?
It is one file with the audio inside it (as data), so it can be attached to an e-mail, dropped in a chat or put on an intranet. It needs no server and phones open it directly.