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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.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
Free browser-based recreation of the classic Windows Microsoft SAM text-to-speech voice with adjustable pitch and speed.
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
- ✦Standard and neural AI voice engines
- ✦Multiple Pro voice models (Expressive, High-Res, Turbo)
- ✦Fine-tuned controls for pause, pitch, speed, volume, emphasis
- ✦SSML support with a pronunciation editor (paid plans)
- ✦Voice cloning and custom voice collections
- ✦Speech-to-speech voice conversion
- ✦Subtitle (.srt/.txt) generation alongside audio
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Developers building TTS into products via API
- →Content creators producing narration for videos or IVR systems
- →Businesses needing multilingual, accent-specific voiceovers
- →Creators fine-tuning pacing and pronunciation for polished audio
- →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
- →Recreating nostalgic Windows XP-era text-to-speech audio
- →Generating novelty or meme voice clips
- →Testing SAPI4-style voice output for retro projects
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps