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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 text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- →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
- →Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
- →Producing podcasts
- →Narrating audiobooks
- →E-learning and presentation narration
- →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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →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