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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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Vozard
✓ verifiedFreemium
Real-time AI voice changer for Windows and Mac with 200+ voices and effects for gaming, streaming and chat.
1.3M visits/mo3.5K saves
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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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Sound Effect Generator
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.
119K visits/mo2.3K saves
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)
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
Basic: $9.99/mo or $149.99/yr (50000 + 10000 bonus credits annually)
Standard: $19.99/mo or $299.99/yr (100000 + 20000 bonus credits annually)
Premium: $29.99/mo or $419.99/yr (150000 + 30000 bonus credits annually)
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)
- ✦Real-time voice changing with low latency
- ✦200+ voice effects including celebrities, cartoon and anime characters
- ✦Works with 14+ platforms: Discord, Zoom, OBS, Fortnite, Twitch and more
- ✦Background sound effects and meme sounds
- ✦Converts pre-recorded audio and video files
- ✦Vocal enhancement for AI cover production
- ✦Windows and Mac support with 3 free voice effects daily
- ✦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 conversion in 75+ languages
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Online dictation
- ✦YouTube subtitle generation
- ✦Talking Website feature
- ✦Text-to-sound-effect generation
- ✦AI voice cloning
- ✦Video-to-sound-effect matching
- ✦AI music and lyrics generation
- ✦Text-to-speech tool
- ✦Searchable library of pre-made sound effects
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
- →Voice disguise for gaming and chat
- →Character voices for live streaming
- →Pranking friends in calls
- →Creating AI voice covers and content
- →Producing audiobooks and podcasts
- →Creating video voiceovers
- →Turning documents into audio
- →Making multilingual audio content
- →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
- →Generating a custom sound effect for a video or game
- →Finding existing sound effects for content creation
- →Adding synced sound effects to AI-generated video
- →Creating voice or speech audio from text
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