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Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.
ElevenLabs' free reader app that narrates articles, PDFs, ebooks, and documents aloud with high-quality AI voices.
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
Real-time AI voice changer and voice cloning platform with enterprise voice agent and text-to-speech products.
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- ✦Text-to-speech with natural AI voices
- ✦100% free, forever
- ✦Open-source
- ✦Works online
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦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 voice agents for call automation
- ✦Text-to-speech in 15+ languages
- ✦Voice cloning from 10-second samples
- ✦Real-time voice changer
- ✦Noise remover
- ✦CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk)
- ✦GDPR, SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance
- →Generating voiceovers for videos
- →Creating audio content from written text
- →Accessibility for visually impaired users
- →Personal and commercial use
- →Listening to documents and ebooks
- →Creating commercial voiceovers
- →Accessibility for dyslexia and vision needs
- →Classroom and EDU accessibility
- →Listening to articles hands-free
- →Consuming ebooks and PDFs as audio
- →Reading accessibility
- →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
- →Gamers and streamers changing their voice in real time
- →Businesses deploying AI voice agents for customer calls
- →Content creators cloning voices for videos or narration
- →Developers building custom apps with voice APIs