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Soundify
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI tool that generates short custom sound effects from a text description, aimed at TikTok, meme and AI-video creators.

2.8K visits/mo2.9K saves
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NaturalReaders
✓ verifiedFreemium

Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.

3.8M visits/mo
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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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HitPaw Photo Restoration
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI video editor (HitPaw Edimakor) with text-to-video, avatars, translation, subtitles and face swap for creators.

991K visits/mo4.1K saves
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Maestra
✓ verifiedFreemium

Web platform for AI transcription, subtitling, translation and dubbing across 125+ languages, aimed at video creators and teams.

1.5M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0 (3 free sound effect generations, up to 4s each)
Starter: $9.99 (400 sound effects, 200 generation credits, up to 20s each)
Premium: $29.99 (1800 sound effects, 900 generation credits, up to 20s each)

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Pay As You Go: $12 (60 credits)
Lite: $23/mo (180 min)
Basic: $39/mo (360 min)
Premium: $79/mo (900 min)

Free trial available

Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • AI text-to-video and script-to-video
  • AI avatars and talking-photo videos
  • Video translation and dubbing (400+ voices)
  • Auto subtitles and speech-to-text
  • Face swap and background remover
  • 1000+ effects, filters, transitions and templates
  • Automatic transcription with speakers and timestamps
  • Subtitle generation, translation and editing
  • AI dubbing with voice cloning and lip sync
  • Real-time transcription, translation and captioning
  • Text-to-speech voiceovers in 125+ languages
Use cases
  • 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 documents and ebooks
  • Creating commercial voiceovers
  • Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
  • Classroom and EDU accessibility
  • Building empathic voice assistants
  • Measuring emotional expression in speech
  • Running human evaluations of voice models
  • Adding emotional intelligence to apps
  • Editing videos for social media
  • Generating videos from text or scripts
  • Translating and dubbing content
  • Creating marketing and explainer videos
  • Subtitle and translate videos for global audiences
  • Transcribe meetings, interviews and media files
  • Dub audio and video into other languages
  • Caption live events and streams
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