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Fish Audio logo
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
Landr logo
Landr
✓ verifiedFreemium

Online platform for AI music mastering, distribution to streaming services, royalty-free samples, plugins and collaboration.

1.8M visits/mo2.5K saves
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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
VoiceMaker logo
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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Hume AI
✓ verifiedPaid

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

247K visits/mo
Pricing

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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)

No public pricing

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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
  • AI mastering online and as a DAW plugin
  • Distribution to 150+ streaming platforms
  • Royalty-free sample library
  • Plugin marketplace and bundles
  • Collaboration and sharing tools
  • Online music courses
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Narrating videos, ads and explainers
  • Producing audiobooks without a studio
  • Creating character or brand voices for games and apps
  • Mastering tracks without a studio
  • Distributing music to streaming services
  • Sourcing royalty-free samples and plugins
  • Collaborating with other musicians
  • 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
  • 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
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
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