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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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Peech AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech app turning PDFs, ebooks, emails and web articles into natural audio in 60+ languages on iOS and Android.

445K visits/mo
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Voice Out
✓ verifiedFreemium

Free Chrome extension that reads aloud webpages, Google Docs, PDFs, and ebooks in 60+ languages with premium voice upgrades.

75K visits/mo
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AnyToSpeech
✓ verifiedFreemium

Online text-to-speech converting text, URLs, PDFs and images into natural multilingual AI voice audio.

126K visits/mo
Pricing

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No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (5,000 characters, ~15s clips)
Hobby: $7/mo (50,000 characters)
Standard: $14/mo (100,000 characters)
Pro: $69/mo (1,000,000 characters)

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Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • Text-to-speech reading across webpages, Docs, PDFs, and email
  • Support for 60+ languages and 100+ voices
  • Adjustable reading speed, pitch, and volume
  • Background listening while browsing
  • Highlighting of text as it's read aloud
  • Minimal permissions with no data tracking claimed
  • Text, URL, PDF and image to speech
  • Large multilingual AI voice library
  • Transcription and image translation
  • Voice cloning and speech-to-speech
  • Two-speaker AI podcast studio
  • Commercial-use audio downloads
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • Language learners listening while reading text
  • People with reading disabilities or visual impairment
  • Multitasking users listening to articles or documents hands-free
  • Editors and writers catching errors by hearing their drafts read aloud
  • Producing audiobooks and podcasts
  • Creating video voiceovers
  • Turning documents into audio
  • Making multilingual audio content
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