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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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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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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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Sound Effect Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.

119K visits/mo2.3K saves
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Basic: $9.99/mo or $149.99/yr (50000 + 10000 bonus credits annually)
Standard: $19.99/mo or $299.99/yr (100000 + 20000 bonus credits annually)
Premium: $29.99/mo or $419.99/yr (150000 + 30000 bonus credits annually)
Core features
  • 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
  • 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-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)
  • 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
Use cases
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
  • Listening to articles hands-free
  • Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
  • Reading accessibility
  • Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
  • Adding accessible audio to websites
  • Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
  • Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
  • 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
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