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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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Voiser
✓ verified

Text-to-speech and speech-to-text in 75+ languages.

219K visits/mo14K saves
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Peech AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech app turning PDFs, ebooks, emails and web articles into natural audio in 60+ languages on iOS and Android.

445K visits/mo
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AnyToSpeech
✓ verifiedFreemium

Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.

126K 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
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

No public pricing

No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (5,000 characters, ~15s clips)
Hobby: $7/mo (50,000 characters)
Standard: $14/mo (100,000 characters)
Pro: $69/mo (1,000,000 characters)

Free trial available

No public pricing

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-speech conversion in 75+ languages
  • Speech-to-text transcription
  • Voice cloning
  • Online dictation
  • YouTube subtitle generation
  • Talking Website feature
  • Converts PDF, EPUB, DOCX, emails and web pages to speech
  • Best-in-class OCR including handwriting and scans
  • 200+ natural voices with content-specific presets
  • 60+ languages with auto-detection
  • Synchronized text highlighting and speed control
  • iOS, Android and Chrome extension
  • 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
  • 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
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
  • Creating voiceovers for videos
  • Transcribing audio and video files
  • Adding voice to websites
  • Generating subtitles for YouTube videos
  • Creating audiobooks
  • Developing smart guides for museums and exhibitions
  • Listening to articles and documents hands-free
  • Accessibility support for dyslexia, ADHD or low vision
  • Studying and multitasking by listening
  • Consuming ebooks and long reads as audio
  • Producing audiobooks and podcasts
  • Creating video voiceovers
  • Turning documents into audio
  • Making multilingual audio content
  • 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
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