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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
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Pika 2.2
✓ verifiedFreemium

A generative video platform that turns text or images into short AI videos, with playful visual effects and a video-focused chat agent.

2.2M visits/mo
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ElevenReader
✓ verifiedFreemium

ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.

834K 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
AI Voice Generator by AIVocal logo
AI Voice Generator by AIVocal
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI voice suite for TTS, voice cloning, podcasts, audiobooks and transcription with 900+ voices across 140+ languages.

168K visits/mo
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)

Free trial available

Basic: $0/month (80 monthly video credits, 480p only, watermark on Turbo/Pro credits)
Standard: $8/month billed yearly (700 monthly video credits, all resolutions)
Pro: $28/month billed yearly (2300 monthly video credits, faster generation)
Fancy: $76/month billed yearly (6000 monthly video credits, fastest generation)

No public pricing

No public pricing

Basic: $9.9/mo (200K credits ~200 min)
Pro: $29.9/mo (600K credits ~600 min)

Free trial available

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
  • Text-to-video and image-to-video generation
  • Pikaffects for stylized transformations of photos into video
  • Pika Agent conversational creative assistant
  • Pikascenes, Pikadditions and Pikaswaps for scene editing
  • Pika MCP to add creative tools to other AI agents
  • Commercial usage rights and watermark-free downloads on paid plans
  • 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
  • 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 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
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
  • Producing short social-media-ready video clips from text ideas
  • Turning a single photo into a reality-bending video effect
  • Automating creative content workflows through an AI agent
  • Adding video generation capability to existing AI agent setups via MCP
  • Listening to articles hands-free
  • Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
  • Reading accessibility
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • Create voiceovers for videos and content
  • Clone or design custom voices
  • Transcribe audio and produce podcasts
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