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Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.
AI voice suite for TTS, voice cloning, podcasts, audiobooks and transcription with 900+ voices across 140+ languages.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.
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- ✦Text, URL, PDF and image to speech
- ✦Large multilingual AI voice library
- ✦Transcription and image translation
- ✦Voice cloning and speech-to-speech
- ✦Two-speaker AI podcast studio
- ✦Commercial-use audio downloads
- ✦Text-to-speech with 900+ voices, 140+ languages
- ✦Voice cloning and voice design
- ✦AI podcast, audiobook and music generation
- ✦Speech-to-text and MP3-to-text transcription
- ✦Vocal remover and audio tools
- ✦Empathic, emotionally intelligent voice models
- ✦Human-feedback and evaluation APIs
- ✦Open-source models and datasets
- ✦Coverage of 50+ languages and dozens of emotions
- ✦Expression measurement and speech tooling
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-sound-effect generation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Video-to-sound-effect matching
- ✦AI music and lyrics generation
- ✦Text-to-speech tool
- ✦Searchable library of pre-made sound effects
- →Producing audiobooks and podcasts
- →Creating video voiceovers
- →Turning documents into audio
- →Making multilingual audio content
- →Create voiceovers for videos and content
- →Clone or design custom voices
- →Transcribe audio and produce podcasts
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Generating a custom sound effect for a video or game
- →Finding existing sound effects for content creation
- →Adding synced sound effects to AI-generated video
- →Creating voice or speech audio from text