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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.

6.7M visits/mo17K saves
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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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SpeechGen
✓ verifiedFreemium

Browser TTS generator with thousands of voices in 150 languages for marketers, e-learning teams and IVR builders needing fast voiceovers.

585K visits/mo17K saves
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Crikk
✓ verifiedFreemium

Text-to-speech app that turns PDFs, images and documents into natural AI narration for listening, plus voiceover creation.

335K visits/mo2.2K saves
Pricing
Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)

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)
Free: 1,000 characters (no account required)

No public pricing

Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • TTS from PDFs, images and text
  • Word/sentence highlighting for read-along
  • Playback speed up to 4x
  • Support for many languages
  • Multiple natural AI voices and styles
  • Voiceover creation; iOS and Android apps
Use cases
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Listen to documents while multitasking
  • Study and improve retention
  • Create voiceovers for projects
  • Accessibility for reading difficulties
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