A voicemail greeting is one or two sentences callers hear before the beep: who they reached, what to do, and when you will call back. Pick a greeting above, put your own name and hours in, press Generate speech, and download the MP3 — the file is only your greeting, with no watermark and no added voice-over. Without an account: 20 uses a day, up to 1,000 characters each.
How to write a voicemail greeting
- Say who they reached first. Your name or the business name, right at the start, so callers know they dialled the right number.
- Give the hours if you have them. "We are open 8 to 5, Monday to Friday" answers the caller's next question before they ask it.
- Make one clear ask. Name, number, short message. Anything more gets skipped; about 50 words is plenty, which keeps the greeting under 20 seconds.
- Promise a callback if you can keep it. "We will call you back today" turns a missed call into a message instead of a hang-up.
- Put
[pause]between sentences. The tag adds a short silence where you place it, which makes the read sound less rushed. Our two pre-recorded clips of the same greeting show it: sentence gaps of about 0.4 seconds without the tag, about 0.8 seconds with it. Use[long-pause]before a menu choice like "press 1 for sales".
Write the greeting, listen, change a word, generate again — each version is one of your free generations, and the tags are never read out loud.
Where to upload the greeting
The steps depend on your phone service, so check its help page for the exact menus; the pattern is the same almost everywhere:
- Business phone systems and VoIP services that accept an audio file: open your phone system's admin or voicemail settings, find the greeting upload, and choose the MP3 you downloaded. A few systems want WAV instead of MP3; any free audio converter makes one from the file.
- Carrier voicemail on a mobile phone usually records the greeting through a call instead of taking a file. Dial your own voicemail, start the greeting recording, and play the MP3 on another device next to the phone microphone in a quiet room.
- Apps such as Google Voice also record the greeting live rather than accepting an upload. Start the greeting setup in the app, then play the MP3 on a second device while it records.
Upload or record the plain greeting; the [pause] tags are instructions
for the generator and are not in the audio.
Greetings in other languages
Every one of the 28 voices speaks all 20 supported languages, so the same voice can record an English and a Spanish greeting. Type the greeting in that language and leave Language on Auto-detect, or pick the language under Settings — the Spanish button above loads an example. For a bilingual greeting, generate each language as its own clip and join them, or keep both in one text under the per-use character limit.
For every voice, language, and speech tag in one place, open the full text to speech tool.
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