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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
6.7M visits/mo17K 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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ElevenReader
✓ verifiedFreemium
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
834K visits/mo
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LALAL.AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI audio suite best known for high-quality vocal and stem separation, plus voice cleanup, changing and cloning tools.
2.7M visits/mo21K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)
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Core features
- ✦1,000+ natural-sounding AI voices in 60+ languages
- ✦Adjustable playback speed up to 5x
- ✦Text highlighting synced to audio
- ✦Scan-and-listen photo-to-speech
- ✦Voice dictation/typing across apps
- ✦AI podcast generation from documents
- ✦Voice AI assistant for Q&A on read content
- ✦Cloud storage integrations (Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦Vocal and instrumental removal
- ✦Stem splitter for drums, bass, guitar and more
- ✦Voice cleaner for noise and plosives
- ✦Voice changer
- ✦Voice cloner from your own samples
- ✦Echo and reverb removal
- ✦Lead and backing vocal separation
Use cases
- →Listening to long articles, PDFs or emails hands-free
- →Studying by having textbooks or lecture notes read aloud
- →Dictating text faster than typing across apps
- →Turning documents into podcast-style audio
- →Reducing eye strain from extensive reading
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Making karaoke and instrumental tracks
- →Isolating stems for remixing and sampling
- →Cleaning up voice recordings
- →Creating and cloning custom voices
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