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Fish Audio
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI text-to-speech and voice-cloning studio with emotion controls, 2M+ voices and speech-to-text via web or API.
5.6M visits/mo
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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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Voice Out
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
75K visits/mo
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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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Core features
- ✦Text-to-speech with emotion and effect tags
- ✦Voice cloning from samples
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Multilingual voice library (2M+ voices)
- ✦Developer API for integration
- ✦Real-time voice generation
- ✦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-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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Narrating videos, ads and explainers
- →Producing audiobooks without a studio
- →Creating character or brand voices for games and apps
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →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
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
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