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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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Hume AI
✓ verifiedPaid

Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.

247K visits/mo
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VoiceMaker
✓ verifiedFreemium

Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.

731K 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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AnyToSpeech
✓ verifiedFreemium

Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.

126K visits/mo
Pricing

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No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (5,000 characters, ~15s clips)
Hobby: $7/mo (50,000 characters)
Standard: $14/mo (100,000 characters)
Pro: $69/mo (1,000,000 characters)

Free trial available

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
  • 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
  • Standard and neural AI voice engines
  • Multiple Pro voice models (Expressive, High-Res, Turbo)
  • Fine-tuned controls for pause, pitch, speed, volume, emphasis
  • SSML support with a pronunciation editor (paid plans)
  • Voice cloning and custom voice collections
  • Speech-to-speech voice conversion
  • Subtitle (.srt/.txt) generation alongside audio
  • 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, 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
Use cases
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • Developers building TTS into products via API
  • Content creators producing narration for videos or IVR systems
  • Businesses needing multilingual, accent-specific voiceovers
  • Creators fine-tuning pacing and pronunciation for polished audio
  • Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
  • Adding accessible audio to websites
  • Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
  • Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
  • Producing audiobooks and podcasts
  • Creating video voiceovers
  • Turning documents into audio
  • Making multilingual audio content
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