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SAM TTS
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free browser-based recreation of the classic Windows Microsoft SAM text-to-speech voice with adjustable pitch and speed.
73K visits/mo
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Crikk
✓ verifiedFreemium
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
335K visits/mo2.2K saves
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ttsMP3.com
✓ verifiedFree
Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.
599K visits/mo
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Online Audio Converter
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free browser-based audio converter (123apps) supporting 300+ formats to MP3, WAV and more, with tag editing and batch conversion.
4.1M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
No public pricing
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No public pricing
Free: $0 (70 files/day, up to 4 GB)
Premium: $6/mo (unlimited files, up to 10 GB, no ads)
Core features
- ✦Recreation of classic Microsoft SAM SAPI4 voice
- ✦Multiple voice presets (Sam, Mike, Mary, BonziBUDDY, etc.)
- ✦Adjustable pitch and speed controls
- ✦Client-side generation, no server processing
- ✦WAV file download
- ✦Works across modern browsers without installation
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-speech conversion in 75+ languages
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Online dictation
- ✦YouTube subtitle generation
- ✦Talking Website feature
- ✦Text-to-MP3 conversion powered by AWS Polly
- ✦28+ languages and multiple regional accents/voices
- ✦SSML tags for pauses, emphasis, speed, and pitch
- ✦Multi-speaker conversation formatting
- ✦Daily free character limit (~3,000 characters)
- ✦Convert 300+ audio and video formats
- ✦Extract audio from video files
- ✦Adjustable quality, bitrate and channels
- ✦ID3 tag editing
- ✦Batch conversion to ZIP
- ✦Runs in-browser, files auto-deleted
Use cases
- →Recreating nostalgic Windows XP-era text-to-speech audio
- →Generating novelty or meme voice clips
- →Testing SAPI4-style voice output for retro projects
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties
- →Creating voiceovers for videos
- →Transcribing audio and video files
- →Adding voice to websites
- →Generating subtitles for YouTube videos
- →Creating audiobooks
- →Developing smart guides for museums and exhibitions
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
- →Converting audio to MP3 or other formats
- →Making iPhone ringtones (M4R)
- →Extracting a song from a video
- →Batch-converting many audio files
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