JohannaEngaging and Gripping Narrator
A calm, articulate German voice ideal for storytelling, explainers, and relaxed digital narration.
Hear Johanna in other languages
ElevenLabs has verified Johanna in 14 languages. Each sample is the voice reading in that language.
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German female voices with a close tone.
Type your script and get the voiceover in about a minute. Free account, no credit card.
About Johanna
A calm, articulate German voice ideal for storytelling, explainers, and relaxed digital narration.
Perfect for YouTube explainers, product walkthroughs, podcasts, and voice-first interfaces that need clarity without sounding robotic. Her natural German cadence and smooth delivery bring comfort and engagement to long-form narration, brand content, and soft-spoken guides. Best suited for platforms like Spotify, YouTube, educational tools, and virtual experiences.
Johanna is the #143 most used German voice in the ElevenLabs library, out of 881. People generated 36.5M characters with it in the last year, and 11k ElevenLabs users added it to their voices. It was published in June 2025 and is verified in 14 languages.
Best for: narration.
- Provider
- ElevenLabs
- Language
- German
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- Middle aged
- Tone
- Modulated
- Published
- Jun 2025
- Models
- Multilingual v2, Flash, v3 (paid)
- Voice ID
Dr5ws89ILcknhL7xh4JG
Questions about Johanna
Can I make a voiceover with Johanna for free?
You can try it with a free JSON2Video account, no credit card: free voiceovers are up to 60 seconds. Paid plans remove the limit.
Can I use my Johanna voiceovers on YouTube or in ads?
Yes. You can publish the voiceovers and videos you make with Johanna on YouTube, TikTok, podcasts and ads, and use them in commercial projects.
Which languages can Johanna speak?
ElevenLabs has verified Johanna in 14 languages: German, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
For developers: use Johanna with the API
Add a voice element to any JSON2Video movie. It works the same from n8n, Make, Zapier and the CLI.
{
"type": "voice",
"model": "elevenlabs",
"voice": "Dr5ws89ILcknhL7xh4JG",
"text": "Im Frühling erwacht der Garten mit bunten Blumen und singenden Vögeln zum Leben. Die alte Eiche spendet Schatten für Besucher, während Schmetterlinge unter den Rosen tanzen. Ein kleiner Brunnen erzeugt friedliche Klänge, was diesen Ort zum perfekten Ort macht, um zu entspannen und die Schönheit der Natur zu genießen."
}