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Search for and hear the words of the Buddha with Voice. Voice is a companion website for SuttaCentral, which hosts the vast ocean of Early Buddhist Texts (aka. "EBTs") along with their translations into contemporary languages, making them freely available to all. Voice is designed to be audio accessible and extends the SuttaCentral texts with full support for TTS readers such as JAWS, NVDA, and ChromeVox. However, sighted users will also find it a helpful way to explore and study the teachings of the Buddha.

In the time of the Buddha, the Dhamma was heard, memorized and spoken for others. Indeed, the hearing, memorization and speaking of the Dhamma was a key part of the practice.

"These five things lead to..."

AN5.155:6.1: These five things lead to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching. What five?

• It’s when the mendicants memorize the teaching— statements, songs, discussions, verses, inspired exclamations, legends, stories of past lives, amazing stories, and classifications. This is the first thing that leads to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.
• Furthermore, the mendicants explain the teaching in detail to others as they learned and memorized it. This is the second thing…
• Furthermore, the mendicants make others recite the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it. This is the third thing…
• Furthermore, the mendicants recite the teaching in detail as they learned and memorized it. This is the fourth thing…
• Furthermore, the mendicants think about and consider the teaching in their hearts, examining it with their minds as they learned and memorized it. This is the fifth thing that leads to the continuation, persistence, and enduring of the true teaching.

Listen to and download the Buddha's words with Voice. Voice combines audio recordings by Bhante Sujato and others with audio generated by customized AI narrators. Furthermore, Voice provides access to individual verses (i.e., "segments") of the Dhamma. Here you can hear, memorize, and speak the Dhamma verse by verse.

Translating the Dhamma

Voice has ongoing support for contemporary languages. Living languages change constantly and the Dhamma will always need to be translated and spoken anew.

AN2.118-129: There are two conditions for the arising of right view: the words of another and proper attention.

Here you will find the voices and works of many. Thanks be to all.

 

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