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Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
AI voice suite for TTS, voice cloning, podcasts, audiobooks and transcription with 900+ voices across 140+ languages.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.
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- ✦Text-to-speech conversion in 75+ languages
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Online dictation
- ✦YouTube subtitle generation
- ✦Talking Website feature
- ✦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-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
- ✦1,000+ lifelike AI voices
- ✦200,000+ audiobooks and ebooks
- ✦32 language support
- ✦Offline listening and cross-device sync
- ✦Smart imports that skip headers and footers
- ✦Adjustable playback speed and bookmarks
- ✦AI text-to-speech in 90+ languages
- ✦Reads PDFs, docs, webpages and scanned books
- ✦Voice cloning and prompt-based voice design
- ✦Study tools: AI podcast, recap, chat, quizzes
- ✦Web app, mobile apps and Chrome extension
- →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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Create voiceovers for videos and content
- →Clone or design custom voices
- →Transcribe audio and produce podcasts
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →Listening to documents and ebooks
- →Creating commercial voiceovers
- →Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
- →Classroom and EDU accessibility