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AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.
Free browser-based text-to-speech tool with a large multilingual voice library and adjustable tone, speed, and pitch.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
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Free trial available
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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
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-MP3 conversion powered by AWS Polly
- ✦28+ languages and multiple regional accents/voices
- ✦SSML tags for pauses, emphasis, speed, and pitch
- ✦Multi-speaker conversation formatting
- ✦Daily free character limit (~3,000 characters)
- ✦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
- →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
- →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
- →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
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties