An AI voice is a voice that is created by artificial intelligence, whether from cloning a human voice already in existence or synthetically made. The last couple of years have seen tremendous leaps and jumps in both the quality of the AI voices and the widespread applications of these voices.
If you aren’t sure why anyone would use AI voices instead of real human voices, or vice versa, check out this guide [How to save 90% of your budget creating voiceover content] that compares the two. If you are already familiar with AI voices and are looking for options, I’ll go through some of the best AI voice applications and services you can start using to get cranking with your content.
The 10 best Text to Speech applications with examples
1. Genny by LOVO AI
Genny is an audiovisual content creation and AI voice generator platform packed with synthetic speech and other generative AI technologies designed to enable human creativity.
Top features
- Project types: Single-speaker Voiceover, Dual-speaker Dialogue, and Multi-speaker Video mode allows you flexibility depending on your needs.
- Get hands-on: Fine-tune emotion, character style, speed, pauses, emphasis, pronunciation, and even pitch.
- More than just voice: non-verbal sounds like mms, laughs, yawns, yells; sound effects like gunshots, fire alarms, cricket noises; and a variety of background music to choose from!
- Timeline: Upload all types of media files you have, and make them all sync with the timestamp you have in mind to finish your content.
- Generative AI: Don’t have the images you want to add to your video? Just type in what you want and we’ll generate the perfect images for you!
Price
- Free
- By # of hours per month: $16/mo ~ $150/mo
2. Wellsaid Labs
WellSaid Labs provides a black-and-neon web application to convert text to voice rapidly.
Top features
- Voices with a variety of emotions
- No frills: their sole focus is Text-to-Speech
- Professional-grade editing features available
Price
- Maker: $79/mo or $529/yr
- Creative: $149/mo or $1,069/yr
- Producer: $299/mo or $2,149/yr
- Enterprise: Custom
3. Murf.ai
Murf has risen to fame recently with easy-to-use UI and a sizeable library of voices.
Top features
- A large variety of voices and languages (100+ voices in 15 languages)
- Style and tone control
- Non-real-time text and audio input support
- Intuitive UX/UI
Pricing
- Basic: $19/mo or $156/yr
- Pro: $39/mo or $312/yr
- Enterprise: $249+/mo or $1,999+/yr
4. Descript
Descript acquired Lyrebird to create a comprehensive video editing tool.
Top features
- Fine-contol available for audio
- Robust video editing feature
- Intuitive UX/UI
- Collaboration feature for teams
Pricing
- Creator: $15/mo or $144/yr
- Pro: $30/mo or $288/yr
- Enterprise: Custom
5. Play.ht
Integrations and plug-ins for those who want to make their blogs and websites audio-friendly.
Top features
- A large variety of voices and languages (almost 1,000 voices)
- WordPress plug-in for blog-writers
- Editor, widgets, and other levers you can pull to edit your audio
- You can access voices from other platforms as well that they’ve integrated via API.
Pricing
- Personal: $19/mo or $171/yr
- Professional: $39/mo or $351/yr
- Premium: $99/mo or $891yr
- Teams & Enterprise: Starts at $198/mo
6. Resemble AI
A solid AI voice provider that allows for ad-hoc voice conversion features and use on the mobile devices.
Top features
- Style, tone, and inflection control
- Allows you to change your voice to another voice without having to input text, by combining Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text technologies.
- Voice Cloning
- API, On-Premise, and Mobile solutions available
Pricing
- Basic: $0.006 per second of audio created
- Pro: Custom
7. Amazon Polly
Created by AWS for businesses, focusing more on quantity and breadth of voices.
Top features
- For Businesses, provides very cheap voice offerings via API.
- Hundreds of voices in almost all major languages.
- You can choose to pay only for the non-premium voices at a discounted rate, or pay more to use their premium (“neural”) voices.
Pricing
- Standard Voices: $4/1,000,000 characters
- Neural Voices: $16/1,000,000 characters
8. Natural Reader
A nifty free text-to-speech tool for individuals, especially students.
Top features
- Simple, document-like UX/UI
- Free of charge for personal use, good for turning textbooks to audiobooks to listen as you study.
Pricing
- Free for personal use
- Custom pricing for commercial usage
9. Respeecher
Another solid player in the Text-to-Speech space.
Top features
- 60+ voices
- Voice cloning and distortion feature to create slight variations of the same voice
Pricing
- $200/mo or $1,999/yr
10. Nuance
Recently purchased by Microsoft, Nuance is an old-player in the Text-to-Speech market now gearing up to be more enterprise-focused.
Top features
- Geared towards businesses who want to provide AI voices for their customer-facing channels.
- Usecases with healthcare providers
Pricing
- Enterprise: Custom
This is only the beginning.
AI is evolving at a pace never before been imagined. It’s no longer just waiting to be trained; it’s teaching itself. Generative AI will bring about a bigger public adoption of AI technologies by products that no longer brandish the AI identity but masquerade them behind well-designed UX/UI and robust features. Synthetic Speech technology is not an exception, and not just us at LOVO, but smart people across the industry are finding clues to make those advancements in a timely manner. And for what? To make it that much easier for you to create quality content without the expertise or the gadgets that were needed before.
Are you excited? Then let’s start creating with Genny.
Check out other posts you might be interested in:
– 7 Essential Qualities of a Good Text to Speech Platform
– LOVO Makes Base10’s Trend Map: Generative AI!
