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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.
Free browser-based recreation of the classic Windows Microsoft SAM text-to-speech voice with adjustable pitch and speed.
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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
- ✦Text-to-speech conversion in 75+ languages
- ✦Speech-to-text transcription
- ✦Voice cloning
- ✦Online dictation
- ✦YouTube subtitle generation
- ✦Talking Website feature
- ✦Recreation of classic Microsoft SAM SAPI4 voice
- ✦Multiple voice presets (Sam, Mike, Mary, BonziBUDDY, etc.)
- ✦Adjustable pitch and speed controls
- ✦Client-side generation, no server processing
- ✦WAV file download
- ✦Works across modern browsers without installation
- →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
- →Creating voiceovers for videos
- →Transcribing audio and video files
- →Adding voice to websites
- →Generating subtitles for YouTube videos
- →Creating audiobooks
- →Developing smart guides for museums and exhibitions
- →Recreating nostalgic Windows XP-era text-to-speech audio
- →Generating novelty or meme voice clips
- →Testing SAPI4-style voice output for retro projects