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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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Voice Out
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
75K 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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Voice.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time AI voice changer and voice cloning platform with enterprise voice agent and text-to-speech products.
1.6M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0
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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
- ✦Text-to-speech reading across webpages, Docs, PDFs, and email
- ✦Support for 60+ languages and 100+ voices
- ✦Adjustable reading speed, pitch, and volume
- ✦Background listening while browsing
- ✦Highlighting of text as it's read aloud
- ✦Minimal permissions with no data tracking claimed
- ✦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
- ✦AI voice agents for call automation
- ✦Text-to-speech in 15+ languages
- ✦Voice cloning from 10-second samples
- ✦Real-time voice changer
- ✦Noise remover
- ✦CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk)
- ✦GDPR, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance
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
- →Language learners listening while reading text
- →People with reading disabilities or visual impairment
- →Multitasking users listening to articles or documents hands-free
- →Editors and writers catching errors by hearing their drafts read aloud
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties
- →Gamers and streamers changing their voice in real time
- →Businesses deploying AI voice agents for customer calls
- →Content creators cloning voices for videos or narration
- →Developers building custom apps with voice APIs
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