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Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-MP3 conversion powered by AWS Polly
- ✦28+ languages and multiple regional accents/voices
- ✦SSML tags for pauses, emphasis, speed, and pitch
- ✦Multi-speaker conversation formatting
- ✦Daily free character limit (~3,000 characters)
- ✦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
- →Listening to documents and ebooks
- →Creating commercial voiceovers
- →Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
- →Classroom and EDU accessibility
- →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
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps