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ElevenLabs logo
ElevenLabs
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI audio platform for text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing and conversational voice agents in 70+ languages, with APIs for developers.

35M visits/mo7.5K saves
Crikk logo
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
Hume AI logo
Hume AI
✓ verifiedPaid

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

247K visits/mo
Sound Effect Generator logo
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
ttsMP3.com logo
ttsMP3.com
✓ verifiedFree

Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.

599K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/month
Starter: $6/month
Creator: $11/month first month, then $22/month
Pro: $99/month
Scale: $299/month
Business: $990/month
Enterprise: Contact sales

No public pricing

No public pricing

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)

No public pricing

Core features
  • Lifelike AI voice generation
  • 5,000+ voices in 70+ languages
  • ElevenAgents for customer experience
  • ElevenCreative for content creation
  • Secure APIs and SDKs
  • Enterprise plans
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
Use cases
  • Narrating audiobooks and podcasts
  • Localizing and dubbing video
  • Building voice-driven support agents
  • Adding TTS to apps via API
  • 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
  • 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
  • Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
  • Adding accessible audio to websites
  • Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
  • Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
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