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Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Browser TTS generator with thousands of voices in 150 languages for marketers, e-learning teams and IVR builders needing fast voiceovers.
AI music generator that turns text prompts into royalty-free songs, melodies, and lyrics across genres.
AI text-to-speech and voice-cloning studio with emotion controls, 2M+ voices and speech-to-text via web or API.
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- ✦TTS from PDFs, images and text
- ✦Word/sentence highlighting for read-along
- ✦Playback speed up to 4x
- ✦Support for many languages
- ✦Multiple natural AI voices and styles
- ✦Voiceover creation; iOS and Android apps
- ✦1,000+ lifelike AI voices
- ✦200,000+ audiobooks and ebooks
- ✦32 language support
- ✦Offline listening and cross-device sync
- ✦Smart imports that skip headers and footers
- ✦Adjustable playback speed and bookmarks
- ✦Over 5,000 AI voices across 150 languages
- ✦Adjustable speed, pitch, volume and pause timing
- ✦SSML controls for intonation and pronunciation
- ✦Background music mixing
- ✦Bulk conversion of long documents up to 1M characters
- ✦Upload of DOCX, PDF or SRT source files
- ✦Commercial usage license included
- ✦Multiple export formats and bitrates
- ✦Text-to-music generation
- ✦Adjustable genre, mood, tempo, and instrumentation
- ✦Royalty-free downloadable tracks
- ✦Custom soundtrack tools
- ✦Credit-based generation
- ✦Text-to-speech with emotion and effect tags
- ✦Voice cloning from samples
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Multilingual voice library (2M+ voices)
- ✦Developer API for integration
- ✦Real-time voice generation
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Producing marketing or product-explainer voiceovers on tight deadlines
- →Creating multilingual e-learning narration
- →Building bilingual phone/IVR prompts for small businesses
- →Generating narration for audio guides and tours
- →Localizing video content into other languages
- →Creating background music for videos
- →Producing original songs and soundscapes
- →Royalty-free tracks for content creators
- →Narrating videos, ads and explainers
- →Producing audiobooks without a studio
- →Creating character or brand voices for games and apps