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Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.
Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.
Free browser-based recreation of the classic Windows Microsoft SAM text-to-speech voice with adjustable pitch and speed.
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
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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
- ✦Text-to-sound-effect generation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Video-to-sound-effect matching
- ✦AI music and lyrics generation
- ✦Text-to-speech tool
- ✦Searchable library of pre-made sound effects
- ✦Text, URL, PDF and image to speech
- ✦Large multilingual AI voice library
- ✦Transcription and image translation
- ✦Voice cloning and speech-to-speech
- ✦Two-speaker AI podcast studio
- ✦Commercial-use audio downloads
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Generating a custom sound effect for a video or game
- →Finding existing sound effects for content creation
- →Adding synced sound effects to AI-generated video
- →Creating voice or speech audio from text
- →Producing audiobooks and podcasts
- →Creating video voiceovers
- →Turning documents into audio
- →Making multilingual audio content
- →Recreating nostalgic Windows XP-era text-to-speech audio
- →Generating novelty or meme voice clips
- →Testing SAPI4-style voice output for retro projects
- →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