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AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.
Text-to-speech app turning PDFs, ebooks, emails and web articles into natural audio in 60+ languages on iOS and Android.
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
Free online text-to-speech with 200+ voices across 70+ languages, exporting MP3 for creators and study use.
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- ✦Text-to-sound-effect generation
- ✦Adjustable clip duration and settings
- ✦Library of pre-defined prompt examples
- ✦Downloadable and shareable audio clips
- ✦Option to make generated sound effects private
- ✦Converts PDF, EPUB, DOCX, emails and web pages to speech
- ✦Best-in-class OCR including handwriting and scans
- ✦200+ natural voices with content-specific presets
- ✦60+ languages with auto-detection
- ✦Synchronized text highlighting and speed control
- ✦iOS, Android and Chrome extension
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦200+ AI voices in 70+ languages
- ✦Text and document (PDF/TXT) to speech
- ✦Adjustable speech rate and pitch
- ✦MP3 download
- ✦Voice cloning and audiobook tools
- →Adding custom sound effects to TikTok or meme videos
- →Creating sound to pair with AI-generated video from Sora or Luma
- →Generating royalty-free sound effects for podcasts or games
- →Listening to articles and documents hands-free
- →Accessibility support for dyslexia, ADHD or low vision
- →Studying and multitasking by listening
- →Consuming ebooks and long reads as audio
- →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
- →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
- →Voice over YouTube or TikTok content
- →Convert documents to audio
- →Create audiobooks or study material