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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-song generator that writes lyrics, vocals and instrumentation from a prompt, with stem export and editing on paid tiers.
Free browser-based text-to-speech tool with a large multilingual voice library and adjustable tone, speed, and pitch.
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
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
- ✦Full song generation with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts
- ✦Suno Studio DAW for editing, remixing, and stem extraction
- ✦Up to 12 time-aligned WAV stems exportable to Ableton or Logic
- ✦Granular style controls (voices, exclusions, vocal gender, weirdness sliders)
- ✦Commercial usage rights for songs on paid plans
- ✦Mobile apps rated top-10 in music category on iOS and Android
- ✦Free online text-to-speech conversion, no signup required
- ✦Voice library spanning 25+ languages and regional accents
- ✦Adjustable speed, pitch, and emotional tone presets
- ✦Use cases for audiobooks, podcasts, and video dubbing
- ✦Separate paid desktop app for unlimited offline bulk conversion
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- →Producing background music for videos or podcasts without licensing costs
- →Generating full songs from a mood or lyric idea with no musical training
- →Remixing or extending existing tracks with AI-assisted editing
- →Extracting stems from AI-generated songs for use in a DAW
- →Narrating short stories or articles into audio
- →Creating voiceovers for videos or podcast intros
- →Generating multilingual audio clips for accessibility
- →Converting large documents to speech in bulk via the paid desktop app
- →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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps