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VoiceMaker
✓ verifiedFreemium

Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.

731K visits/mo
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SpeechGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser TTS generator with thousands of voices in 150 languages for marketers, e-learning teams and IVR builders needing fast voiceovers.

585K visits/mo17K saves
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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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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
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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

No public pricing

Free: 1,000 characters (no account required)
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)
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)

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • Over 5,000 AI voices across 150 languages
  • Adjustable speed, pitch, volume and pause timing
  • SSML controls for intonation and pronunciation
  • Background music mixing
  • Bulk conversion of long documents up to 1M characters
  • Upload of DOCX, PDF or SRT source files
  • Commercial usage license included
  • Multiple export formats and bitrates
  • 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-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 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
  • 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
  • Producing marketing or product-explainer voiceovers on tight deadlines
  • Creating multilingual e-learning narration
  • Building bilingual phone/IVR prompts for small businesses
  • Generating narration for audio guides and tours
  • Localizing video content into other languages
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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