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Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
Free online text-to-speech with 200+ voices across 70+ languages, exporting MP3 for creators and study use.
AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦550+ AI voices in 72 languages
- ✦80+ emotion tags and tone controls
- ✦Podcast mode with multi-speaker dialogs
- ✦Audiobook narration with per-character voices
- ✦Document and URL import (PDF, DOCX, EPUB)
- ✦MP3/WAV/OGG downloads with commercial rights on Pro
- ✦Audio transcription and translation
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
- →Convert documents to audio
- →Create audiobooks or study material
- →Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
- →Producing podcasts
- →Narrating audiobooks
- →E-learning and presentation narration
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties