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ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
Free online text-to-speech with 200+ voices across 70+ languages, exporting MP3 for creators and study use.
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
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- ✦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
- ✦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)
- ✦200+ AI voices in 70+ languages
- ✦Text and document (PDF/TXT) to speech
- ✦Adjustable speech rate and pitch
- ✦MP3 download
- ✦Voice cloning and audiobook tools
- ✦Text-to-speech reading across webpages, Docs, PDFs, and email
- ✦Support for 60+ languages and 100+ voices
- ✦Adjustable reading speed, pitch, and volume
- ✦Background listening while browsing
- ✦Highlighting of text as it's read aloud
- ✦Minimal permissions with no data tracking claimed
- ✦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
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →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
- →Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
- →Convert documents to audio
- →Create audiobooks or study material
- →Language learners listening while reading text
- →People with reading disabilities or visual impairment
- →Multitasking users listening to articles or documents hands-free
- →Editors and writers catching errors by hearing their drafts read aloud
- →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