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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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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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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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Voxify
✓ verifiedFree trial

Text-to-speech generator for creators and educators who want a large multilingual voice library with emotional tone control.

63K visits/mo
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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.

6.7M visits/mo17K saves
Pricing

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Standard: $4.99/month (100,000 characters/month, all voices and languages)
Pro: $8.99/month (250,000 characters/month, all voices and languages)

Free trial available

Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)
Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 450+ AI voices across 120+ languages and accents
  • Adjustable pitch, speed, and emotional delivery
  • Voice options across child, adult, and elderly age ranges
  • Commercial usage rights included on paid plans
  • Free account available to test voices before purchase
  • 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)
Use cases
  • Listening to articles hands-free
  • Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
  • Reading accessibility
  • 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
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
  • Creating podcast or video voiceovers
  • Producing multilingual audio content
  • Generating character voices for games or animation
  • Building lesson or educational audio content
  • 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
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