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AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.
AI voice suite for TTS, voice cloning, podcasts, audiobooks and transcription with 900+ voices across 140+ languages.
Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.
Free browser-based text-to-speech tool with a large multilingual voice library and adjustable tone, speed, and pitch.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
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Free trial available
No public pricing
- ✦Text-to-sound-effect generation
- ✦Adjustable clip duration and settings
- ✦Library of pre-defined prompt examples
- ✦Downloadable and shareable audio clips
- ✦Option to make generated sound effects private
- ✦Text-to-speech with 900+ voices, 140+ languages
- ✦Voice cloning and voice design
- ✦AI podcast, audiobook and music generation
- ✦Speech-to-text and MP3-to-text transcription
- ✦Vocal remover and audio tools
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →Adding custom sound effects to TikTok or meme videos
- →Creating sound to pair with AI-generated video from Sora or Luma
- →Generating royalty-free sound effects for podcasts or games
- →Create voiceovers for videos and content
- →Clone or design custom voices
- →Transcribe audio and produce podcasts
- →Listening to documents and ebooks
- →Creating commercial voiceovers
- →Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
- →Classroom and EDU accessibility
- →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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps