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NaturalReaders
✓ verifiedFreemium

Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.

3.8M visits/mo
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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
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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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Voice Out
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.

75K visits/mo
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Sound Effect Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.

119K visits/mo2.3K saves
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Basic: $9.99/mo or $149.99/yr (50000 + 10000 bonus credits annually)
Standard: $19.99/mo or $299.99/yr (100000 + 20000 bonus credits annually)
Premium: $29.99/mo or $419.99/yr (150000 + 30000 bonus credits annually)
Core features
  • AI text-to-speech in 90+ languages
  • Reads PDFs, docs, webpages and scanned books
  • Voice cloning and prompt-based voice design
  • Study tools: AI podcast, recap, chat, quizzes
  • Web app, mobile apps and Chrome extension
  • 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
  • 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-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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Listening to documents and ebooks
  • Creating commercial voiceovers
  • Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
  • Classroom and EDU accessibility
  • Narrating videos, ads and explainers
  • Producing audiobooks without a studio
  • Creating character or brand voices for games and apps
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • 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
  • 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
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