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AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.
Turns PDFs and pasted text into short TikTok-style meme videos aimed at students who want quicker, stickier study recall.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
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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
- ✦Converts PDFs or pasted text into short meme-style study videos
- ✦Three output modes: quirky Brainrot, interactive Quiz, or plain Raw video
- ✦Selectable narrator voices with different accents and tones
- ✦Custom or library background music and video overlays
- ✦Works across any subject or document type
- ✦Fast turnaround, generating clips in seconds
- ✦Credit-based free daily allowance plus paid credit packs
- ✦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, URL, PDF and image to speech
- ✦Large multilingual AI voice library
- ✦Transcription and image translation
- ✦Voice cloning and speech-to-speech
- ✦Two-speaker AI podcast studio
- ✦Commercial-use audio downloads
- ✦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
- →Cramming for exams with entertaining, memorable clips
- →Teachers producing engaging content for remote or online classes
- →Turning lecture notes or articles into shareable social-style videos
- →Corporate trainers making quirky training or onboarding clips
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Producing audiobooks and podcasts
- →Creating video voiceovers
- →Turning documents into audio
- →Making multilingual audio content
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps