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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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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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ttsMP3.com
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Free browser-based text-to-MP3 converter using Amazon Polly voices across 28+ languages with SSML controls.
599K visits/mo
Pricing
No public 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)
Free: 1,000 characters (no account required)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Text-to-speech with natural AI voices
- ✦100% free, forever
- ✦Open-source
- ✦Works online
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦Text-to-MP3 conversion powered by AWS Polly
- ✦28+ languages and multiple regional accents/voices
- ✦SSML tags for pauses, emphasis, speed, and pitch
- ✦Multi-speaker conversation formatting
- ✦Daily free character limit (~3,000 characters)
Use cases
- →Generating voiceovers for videos
- →Creating audio content from written text
- →Accessibility for visually impaired users
- →Personal and commercial use
- →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
- →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
- →Creating narration for e-learning or presentations
- →Adding accessible audio to websites
- →Producing quick voiceovers for YouTube videos
- →Generating multi-character dialogue audio clips
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