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Kapwing
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser-based video editor with AI tools for creating, editing, subtitling, and repurposing content.

5.6M visits/mo
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Soundify
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.

2.8K visits/mo2.9K 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
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notevibes.com
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.

239K 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

No public pricing

Free: $0 (3 free sound effect generations, up to 4s each)
Starter: $9.99 (400 sound effects, 200 generation credits, up to 20s each)
Premium: $29.99 (1800 sound effects, 900 generation credits, up to 20s each)

Free trial available

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)
Starter: $8/mo billed yearly ($96/yr)
Personal: $16/mo billed yearly ($190/yr)
Pro: $83/mo billed yearly ($990/yr, commercial)
Credit Pack: $49 one-time (1M credits)

No public pricing

Core features
  • Browser-based video editor
  • AI video generation from prompts
  • Auto subtitles and transcription
  • Dubbing and translation into 40+ languages
  • Repurpose long video into social clips
  • Text-to-speech and audio cleanup
  • Text-to-sound-effect generation
  • Adjustable clip duration and settings
  • Library of pre-defined prompt examples
  • Downloadable and shareable audio clips
  • Option to make generated sound effects private
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • Editing videos without desktop software
  • Creating social-media clips
  • Adding captions and translations
  • Generating videos from text prompts
  • Team and marketing content creation
  • Adding custom sound effects to TikTok or meme videos
  • Creating sound to pair with AI-generated video from Sora or Luma
  • Generating royalty-free sound effects for podcasts or games
  • 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
  • Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
  • Producing podcasts
  • Narrating audiobooks
  • E-learning and presentation narration
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
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