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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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VoiceMaker
✓ verifiedFreemium
Full-featured text-to-speech studio with standard and neural voices plus SSML-level controls for developers and creators.
731K visits/mo
Pricing
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
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
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →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
- →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
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