Voices and languages

Every meditation in Open Meadow is read aloud by a voice you choose. This page introduces all of them: what they sound like, where they come from, and how to pick the one that fits your practice.

Every voice below can be played. Tap one to hear it read the same short meditation passage.

Premium

15 voices

Generated with ElevenLabs. Included with the subscription and the trial.

Gemini · New

4 voices

New voices from Google. Expressive, and they speak almost any language. Included with every plan.

Standard

19 voices

Generated with Kokoro, an open-source model. Included with every plan.

Custom

Your own

Connect your ElevenLabs account and bring any voice you like.

Premium voices Languages Gemini voices Standard voices Custom voices

Our recommended voices

Nate and Laura are the voices we recommend first.

Premium voices

Premium voices are generated with ElevenLabs, one of the leading text-to-speech systems. They are included with the subscription, the trial, and extra credits.

Most of them speak many languages, although they are currently optimized for English and may lose quality in some languages. Here you can try them in a selection of languages.

Model

All premium voices currently run on ElevenLabs eleven_turbo_v2_5. It gives the best balance of quality and cost we have found. Most voices run at high stability settings to avoid inconsistent delivery and prosody.

“Find a comfortable sitting position, whether on a chair, cushion, or directly on the ground…”

Every preview reads the same three sentences, starting with this one, so you can compare voices fairly.

Beyond these previews

The model behind our premium voices supports 32 languages in total.

ArabicBulgarianMandarin ChineseCroatianCzechDanishDutchEnglishFilipinoFinnishFrenchGermanGreekHindiHungarianIndonesianItalianJapaneseKoreanMalayNorwegianPolishPortugueseRomanianRussianSlovakSpanishSwedishTamilTurkishUkrainianVietnamese

Gemini voices

Gemini voices are generated with Google's Gemini text-to-speech. They are more expressive than our other voices, speak almost any language, and are included with every plan, including Free.

Gemini voices are new and experimental. Their delivery varies more from one passage to the next than with our premium voices. For the most consistent delivery, premium voices are still the safer choice.

Model

These are four of Google's studio voices, running on gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts. Each one is given a style instruction that asks for a calm, plain delivery. We plan to add more.

Gemini voices aren't limited to these previews. They can read almost any language, and quality varies by language.

Standard voices

Standard voices are included with every plan, including Free. They are generated with Kokoro, a small open-source text-to-speech model, through Together AI.

For the amount of computation behind them, they sound surprisingly good. Grace and Kate are the most popular.

Standard voices in other languages

Kokoro also includes voices for a handful of other languages. They are noticeably rougher than the English ones, and we label them as lower quality in the app.

If you meditate in one of these languages, a Gemini voice, included with every plan, or a premium voice will almost always sound better.

Spanish

French

Hindi

Italian

Japanese

Portuguese

Mandarin Chinese

Custom voices

If you have your own ElevenLabs account, you can bring its voices with you. Connect the account with an API key in Preferences, under Custom Voices. Your voices then appear in the voice picker alongside ours.

You can add, edit, test, and delete custom voices, and set one as your default.