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Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
AI tool that turns text descriptions into custom sound effects, with a large searchable library of pre-made effects.
AI voice suite for TTS, voice cloning, podcasts, audiobooks and transcription with 900+ voices across 140+ languages.
Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.
Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.
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- ✦Standard and neural AI voice engines
- ✦Multiple Pro voice models (Expressive, High-Res, Turbo)
- ✦Fine-tuned controls for pause, pitch, speed, volume, emphasis
- ✦SSML support with a pronunciation editor (paid plans)
- ✦Voice cloning and custom voice collections
- ✦Speech-to-speech voice conversion
- ✦Subtitle (.srt/.txt) generation alongside audio
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-speech with 900+ voices, 140+ languages
- ✦Voice cloning and voice design
- ✦AI podcast, audiobook and music generation
- ✦Speech-to-text and MP3-to-text transcription
- ✦Vocal remover and audio tools
- ✦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
- ✦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)
- →Developers building TTS into products via API
- →Content creators producing narration for videos or IVR systems
- →Businesses needing multilingual, accent-specific voiceovers
- →Creators fine-tuning pacing and pronunciation for polished audio
- →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
- →Create voiceovers for videos and content
- →Clone or design custom voices
- →Transcribe audio and produce podcasts
- →Listen to documents while multitasking
- →Study and improve retention
- →Create voiceovers for projects
- →Accessibility for reading difficulties
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips