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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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NaturalReaders
✓ verifiedFreemium

Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.

3.8M visits/mo
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Output
✓ verifiedPaid

Music-software maker behind creative production tools and plugins such as Arcade, Portal and Movement for producers and musicians.

387K visits/mo
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Splitter.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI stem separation tool built on Deezer's Spleeter research, with free basic splitting and a Pro tier for cleaner extraction.

114K visits/mo2.7K saves
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AudioShake
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI audio-source separation that splits recordings into clean stems for music mixing, dubbing, lyric transcription and post-production.

66K visits/mo
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)
  • AI text-to-speech in 90+ languages
  • Reads PDFs, docs, webpages and scanned books
  • Voice cloning and prompt-based voice design
  • Study tools: AI podcast, recap, chat, quizzes
  • Web app, mobile apps and Chrome extension
  • Arcade sample-based instrument
  • Effect plugins for granular, motion and distortion processing
  • Large, evolving library of sounds and presets
  • Runs as plugins inside major DAWs
  • AI stem separation based on Spleeter technology
  • Free basic multi-stem splitting
  • Pro-tier near-perfect 2-stem (vocal/instrumental) separation
  • Reverb removal (Pro)
  • Direct YouTube link splitting (Pro)
  • API access for developers
  • Instrument and vocal stem separation
  • Dialogue, music and effects isolation
  • Multi-speaker separation
  • Lyric transcription with word-level alignment
  • Real-time separation and API
  • Cue-sheet and metadata support
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
  • Listening to documents and ebooks
  • Creating commercial voiceovers
  • Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
  • Classroom and EDU accessibility
  • Producing and sound design in a DAW
  • Adding movement and texture to tracks
  • Sourcing sample-based instrument content
  • Speeding up creative music workflows
  • Musicians extracting vocals or instrumentals from a track
  • Remixers and DJs isolating stems for production
  • Developers integrating stem separation via API
  • Remixing and immersive/Atmos mixing
  • Localization and dubbing prep
  • Sync-licensing instrumentals
  • Karaoke and lyric videos
  • Rights and copyright analysis
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