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ttsMP3.com logo
ttsMP3.com
✓ verifiedFree

Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.

599K visits/mo
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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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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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Udio
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Popular AI music generator that turns text prompts into full songs with vocals and instrumentation in seconds.

1.7M visits/mo
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Suno AI V5.5
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-song generator that writes lyrics, vocals and instrumentation from a prompt, with stem export and editing on paid tiers.

82M visits/mo
Pricing

No public 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

No public pricing

Free: $0/month
Pro: $8/month
Premier: $24/month
Core features
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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
  • Text-to-music generation with vocals and instrumentation
  • Song extension and remixing tools
  • Genre and style-guided generation
  • Library of user-generated tracks to explore
  • Full song generation with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts
  • Suno Studio DAW for editing, remixing, and stem extraction
  • Up to 12 time-aligned WAV stems exportable to Ableton or Logic
  • Granular style controls (voices, exclusions, vocal gender, weirdness sliders)
  • Commercial usage rights for songs on paid plans
  • Mobile apps rated top-10 in music category on iOS and Android
Use cases
  • Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
  • Adding accessible audio to websites
  • Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
  • Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
  • 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
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • Musicians and hobbyists generating original song ideas from prompts
  • Content creators needing background music or soundtracks
  • Songwriters exploring melody and lyric ideas quickly
  • Producing background music for videos or podcasts without licensing costs
  • Generating full songs from a mood or lyric idea with no musical training
  • Remixing or extending existing tracks with AI-assisted editing
  • Extracting stems from AI-generated songs for use in a DAW
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