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Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
Established text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs and webpages aloud in 90+ languages across Personal, Commercial and EDU plans.
Voice AI research lab offering emotionally intelligent speech models and APIs for developers building empathic voice applications.
Browser TTS generator with thousands of voices in 150 languages for marketers, e-learning teams and IVR builders needing fast voiceovers.
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- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Over 5,000 AI voices across 150 languages
- ✦Adjustable speed, pitch, volume and pause timing
- ✦SSML controls for intonation and pronunciation
- ✦Background music mixing
- ✦Bulk conversion of long documents up to 1M characters
- ✦Upload of DOCX, PDF or SRT source files
- ✦Commercial usage license included
- ✦Multiple export formats and bitrates
- →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
- →Building empathic voice assistants
- →Measuring emotional expression in speech
- →Running human evaluations of voice models
- →Adding emotional intelligence to apps
- →Producing marketing or product-explainer voiceovers on tight deadlines
- →Creating multilingual e-learning narration
- →Building bilingual phone/IVR prompts for small businesses
- →Generating narration for audio guides and tours
- →Localizing video content into other languages