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AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
Free online text-to-speech with 200+ voices across 70+ languages, exporting MP3 for creators and study use.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
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- ✦550+ AI voices in 72 languages
- ✦80+ emotion tags and tone controls
- ✦Podcast mode with multi-speaker dialogs
- ✦Audiobook narration with per-character voices
- ✦Document and URL import (PDF, DOCX, EPUB)
- ✦MP3/WAV/OGG downloads with commercial rights on Pro
- ✦Audio transcription and translation
- ✦200+ AI voices in 70+ languages
- ✦Text and document (PDF/TXT) to speech
- ✦Adjustable speech rate and pitch
- ✦MP3 download
- ✦Voice cloning and audiobook tools
- ✦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
- ✦Standard and neural AI voice engines
- ✦Multiple Pro voice models (Expressive, High-Res, Turbo)
- ✦Fine-tuned controls for pause, pitch, speed, volume, emphasis
- ✦SSML support with a pronunciation editor (paid plans)
- ✦Voice cloning and custom voice collections
- ✦Speech-to-speech voice conversion
- ✦Subtitle (.srt/.txt) generation alongside audio
- ✦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
- →Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
- →Producing podcasts
- →Narrating audiobooks
- →E-learning and presentation narration
- →Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
- →Convert documents to audio
- →Create audiobooks or study material
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Developers building TTS into products via API
- →Content creators producing narration for videos or IVR systems
- →Businesses needing multilingual, accent-specific voiceovers
- →Creators fine-tuning pacing and pronunciation for polished audio
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties