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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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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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SAM TTS
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free browser-based recreation of the classic Windows Microsoft SAM text-to-speech voice with adjustable pitch and speed.
73K visits/mo
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Core features
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Recreation of classic Microsoft SAM SAPI4 voice
- ✦Multiple voice presets (Sam, Mike, Mary, BonziBUDDY, etc.)
- ✦Adjustable pitch and speed controls
- ✦Client-side generation, no server processing
- ✦WAV file download
- ✦Works across modern browsers without installation
Use cases
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →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
- →Recreating nostalgic Windows XP-era text-to-speech audio
- →Generating novelty or meme voice clips
- →Testing SAPI4-style voice output for retro projects
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