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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
6.7M visits/mo17K saves
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AI Song Maker
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI song maker turning text or lyrics into royalty-free tracks, with covers, vocal removal, MIDI and singing-photo tools.
854K 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
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notevibes.com
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI text-to-speech studio with 550+ voices in 72 languages for voiceovers, podcasts and audiobooks; free plan plus paid tiers.
239K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)
Free: $0 (20 credits/day)
Basic: $10.49/mo (12,000 credits/yr)
Standard: $20.99/mo (30,000 credits/yr)
Pro: $41.99/mo (72,000 credits/yr)
No public pricing
Starter: $8/mo billed yearly ($96/yr)
Personal: $16/mo billed yearly ($190/yr)
Pro: $83/mo billed yearly ($990/yr, commercial)
Credit Pack: $49 one-time (1M credits)
Core features
- ✦1,000+ natural-sounding AI voices in 60+ languages
- ✦Adjustable playback speed up to 5x
- ✦Text highlighting synced to audio
- ✦Scan-and-listen photo-to-speech
- ✦Voice dictation/typing across apps
- ✦AI podcast generation from documents
- ✦Voice AI assistant for Q&A on read content
- ✦Cloud storage integrations (Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)
- ✦Text-to-song and lyrics-to-song
- ✦AI lyrics generator
- ✦Song cover and singing-photo generators
- ✦Vocal remover and stem splitting
- ✦MP3-to-MIDI and MIDI editor
- ✦Up to 8-minute songs
- ✦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
- ✦550+ AI voices in 72 languages
- ✦80+ emotion tags and tone controls
- ✦Podcast mode with multi-speaker dialogs
- ✦Audiobook narration with per-character voices
- ✦Document and URL import (PDF, DOCX, EPUB)
- ✦MP3/WAV/OGG downloads with commercial rights on Pro
- ✦Audio transcription and translation
Use cases
- →Listening to long articles, PDFs or emails hands-free
- →Studying by having textbooks or lecture notes read aloud
- →Dictating text faster than typing across apps
- →Turning documents into podcast-style audio
- →Reducing eye strain from extensive reading
- →Royalty-free music for content
- →Covers and instrumentals
- →Songwriting and lyric drafting
- →Karaoke tracks
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Voiceovers for YouTube, TikTok and ads
- →Producing podcasts
- →Narrating audiobooks
- →E-learning and presentation narration
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