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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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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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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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Fish Audio
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI text-to-speech and voice-cloning studio with emotion controls, 2M+ voices and speech-to-text via web or API.

5.6M visits/mo
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Vozard
✓ verifiedFreemium

Real-time AI voice changer for Windows and Mac with 200+ voices and effects for gaming, streaming and chat.

1.3M visits/mo3.5K saves
Pricing
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)

No public pricing

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

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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 emotion and effect tags
  • Voice cloning from samples
  • Speech-to-text transcription
  • Multilingual voice library (2M+ voices)
  • Developer API for integration
  • Real-time voice generation
  • Low-latency real-time voice changing
  • 200+ voices and sound effects
  • Works with 14+ apps (Discord, Zoom, OBS, etc.)
  • Meme and background-sound library
  • Voice changing for recordings and files
  • AI vocal enhancement for covers
Use cases
  • 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
  • Listening to documents and ebooks
  • Creating commercial voiceovers
  • Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
  • Classroom and EDU accessibility
  • 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
  • Narrating videos, ads and explainers
  • Producing audiobooks without a studio
  • Creating character or brand voices for games and apps
  • Voice disguise for gaming and chat
  • Character voices for live streaming
  • Pranking friends in calls
  • Creating AI voice covers and content
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