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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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SpeechGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser TTS generator with thousands of voices in 150 languages for marketers, e-learning teams and IVR builders needing fast voiceovers.

585K visits/mo17K saves
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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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Voice Out
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.

75K 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)

Free trial available

Free: 1,000 characters (no account required)

No public pricing

No public pricing

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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
  • Over 5,000 AI voices across 150 languages
  • Adjustable speed, pitch, volume and pause timing
  • SSML controls for intonation and pronunciation
  • Background music mixing
  • Bulk conversion of long documents up to 1M characters
  • Upload of DOCX, PDF or SRT source files
  • Commercial usage license included
  • Multiple export formats and bitrates
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Producing marketing or product-explainer voiceovers on tight deadlines
  • Creating multilingual e-learning narration
  • Building bilingual phone/IVR prompts for small businesses
  • Generating narration for audio guides and tours
  • Localizing video content into other languages
  • Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
  • Convert documents to audio
  • Create audiobooks or study material
  • 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
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
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