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AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
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- ✦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
- ✦1,000+ lifelike AI voices
- ✦200,000+ audiobooks and ebooks
- ✦32 language support
- ✦Offline listening and cross-device sync
- ✦Smart imports that skip headers and footers
- ✦Adjustable playback speed and bookmarks
- ✦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
- ✦TTS from PDFs, images and text
- ✦Word/sentence highlighting for read-along
- ✦Playback speed up to 4x
- ✦Support for many languages
- ✦Multiple natural AI voices and styles
- ✦Voiceover creation; iOS and Android apps
- ✦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
- →Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
- →Producing podcasts
- →Narrating audiobooks
- →E-learning and presentation narration
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →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
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties
- →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