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Soundify
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.

2.8K visits/mo2.9K saves
Luvvoice logo
Luvvoice
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free online text-to-speech with 200+ voices across 70+ languages, exporting MP3 for creators and study use.

1.6M visits/mo
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Hume AI
✓ verifiedPaid

Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.

247K visits/mo
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VoiceMaker
✓ verifiedFreemium

Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.

731K visits/mo
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Crikk
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.

335K visits/mo2.2K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (3 free sound effect generations, up to 4s each)
Starter: $9.99 (400 sound effects, 200 generation credits, up to 20s each)
Premium: $29.99 (1800 sound effects, 900 generation credits, up to 20s each)

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Core features
  • 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
  • 200+ AI voices in 70+ languages
  • Text and document (PDF/TXT) to speech
  • Adjustable speech rate and pitch
  • MP3 download
  • Voice cloning and audiobook tools
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • 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
  • Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
  • Convert documents to audio
  • Create audiobooks or study material
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • 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
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
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