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102 tools, models and places to run them, grouped by what you want to do. Each links to a page with prices, licence and sources.

A voice or speech, my voice sounding like someone else

Kits AI: Music-focused voice tools: turn a sung or spoken take into another voice, clone your own singing voice, and split songs into vocals and instruments. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Musicfy: Lets you make a song sound as if it were sung by a different voice, either one from its library or a custom voice you train from recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Respeecher: Makes your recorded voice sound like a different voice (speech-to-speech), or reads text aloud, using a library of ready-made voices. (Tool, Closed)
RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion): Free, downloadable software that makes a recording or live voice sound like another voice. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Voice-Swap: A web studio for turning a sung or spoken recording into another voice from its library, splitting songs into parts, and reading text aloud. (Tool, Closed)
Voicemod: A free app that changes how your voice sounds in real time while you chat, stream or play games, with 200+ voices and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Krisp: Runs alongside your video-call apps to remove background noise and echo from your voice, transcribe meetings and write notes. (Tool, Closed)
Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, clean up a recording

Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech): A browser tool that makes speech recorded on a phone or laptop sound like it was done in a quiet studio by removing background noise and echo. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Auphonic: Upload a podcast or recording and it automatically evens out volume, reduces noise and hum, cuts silences and filler words, and can write a transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Cleanvoice AI: Cleans up podcast and voice recordings in your browser: removes background noise, filler words like 'um', mouth sounds and long silences, and can transcribe and summarise. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Krisp: Runs alongside your video-call apps to remove background noise and echo from your voice, transcribe meetings and write notes. (Tool, Closed)
NVIDIA Broadcast: A Windows app that uses your NVIDIA graphics card to clean up your mic and webcam live: removes background noise and echo, blurs or replaces your background, and keeps you centred. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
AudioShake: Splits audio into separate parts: vocals and instruments in a song, or dialogue, music and effects in a film soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Clipchamp: Microsoft's simple video editor for the browser and Windows. (Tool, Closed, free option)
DaVinci Resolve: Professional desktop software for editing, colour, effects and sound. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Gling: An editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
LALAL.AI: Splits a song into separate parts such as vocals, drums, bass and guitar, and can clean noise or echo from voice recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Riverside: A browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, a copy of my own voice

Resemble AI: Used to offer voice cloning and text to speech, but has stopped selling voice generation. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Anam: Builds realistic AI faces that hold live video conversations, for example as a support agent or tutor on a website. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Async (formerly Podcastle): An online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Cartesia: A fast text-to-speech and speech-to-text service aimed at developers building voice apps and phone agents. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Chatterbox: A free, downloadable family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI that read text aloud in 23 languages and can copy a voice from a short clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Colossyan: Turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, aimed at workplace training. (Tool, Closed, free option)
D-ID: Makes a photo or video of a face talk, reading your script or audio. (Tool, Closed)
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Dia: A free, downloadable speech model that turns a written two-person script into spoken dialogue, including laughs and coughs. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Dubverse: A web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech. (Tool, Closed)
Elai.io: Makes training and explainer videos with a virtual presenter reading your script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
F5-TTS: A free research text-to-speech model that copies the voice in a short reference clip and reads new text in it. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Fish Audio: A text-to-speech site with a large library of community voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Fliki: Turns a script, idea, blog post or slides into a narrated video with stock visuals, AI voices and optional avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech: Google's developer service that turns written text into spoken audio in many voices and languages, paid per character. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Hedra: Makes any face in a picture talk or sing along to an audio track, using its own Character 3 model or others it hosts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
HeyGen: Makes videos of a digital presenter reading your script, in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
invideo AI: A browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline. (Tool, Closed)
Jogg AI: Makes marketing and product videos with a digital presenter reading your script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Kits AI: Music-focused voice tools: turn a sung or spoken take into another voice, clone your own singing voice, and split songs into vocals and instruments. (Tool, Closed, free option)
LALAL.AI: Splits a song into separate parts such as vocals, drums, bass and guitar, and can clean noise or echo from voice recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Listnr AI: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text and get a voiceover in one of 1,000+ voices and 140+ languages, for videos, audiobooks or podcasts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
LOVO AI: A browser tool for making voiceovers from a script, with a library of ready-made voices and the option to clone voices on paid plans. (Tool, Closed)
Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
MiniMax Audio: MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. (Tool, Closed)
Murf AI: A browser studio for turning a script into a voiceover, choosing from a library of ready-made voices in many languages. (Tool, Closed)
Musicfy: Lets you make a song sound as if it were sung by a different voice, either one from its library or a custom voice you train from recordings. (Tool, Closed, free option)
NaturalReader: Reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural-sounding voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
PlayHT (PlayAI): An online text-to-speech service that reads your text aloud in many voices and languages, with multi-speaker dialogue and an option to copy a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Respeecher: Makes your recorded voice sound like a different voice (speech-to-speech), or reads text aloud, using a library of ready-made voices. (Tool, Closed)
Revid AI: A browser tool for making short social videos (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an idea, a web link or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
RVC (Retrieval-based Voice Conversion): Free, downloadable software that makes a recording or live voice sound like another voice. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Soundverse: A browser music studio that writes songs with vocals from a text prompt, and can also extend tracks, split songs into parts and clone a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
sync.: A lip-sync service: give it a video and new speech, and it changes the speaker's mouth to match. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Synthesia: Turns a script into a video with a digital presenter, mainly for training and business videos. (Tool, Closed, free option)
TopView: Makes marketing and product videos, including AI presenters that hold or show your product, lip-sync, and voice clones. (Tool, Closed)
Typecast: Type a script and pick from a library of AI voices to have it read aloud with adjustable emotion, or turn it into a talking-avatar video. (Tool, Closed, free option)
VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vidnoz AI: A browser tool for making presenter videos from a script with stock AI avatars, making a photo talk, cloning your voice and translating videos with lip-sync. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Voice-Swap: A web studio for turning a sung or spoken recording into another voice from its library, splitting songs into parts, and reading text aloud. (Tool, Closed)
Voicemaker: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text, pick from a library of voices and languages, and download the narration as an audio file. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Voicemod: A free app that changes how your voice sounds in real time while you chat, stream or play games, with 200+ voices and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vyond: A browser app for making animated explainer and training videos with cartoon-style characters, AI presenters and text-to-speech voices. (Tool, Closed)
XTTS-v2: A downloadable text-to-speech model that reads text aloud in 17 languages and can copy a voice from a 6-second clip. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Zebracat: Turns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, a brand-new voice from a description

CAMB.AI: Translates and dubs videos and live streams into other languages, and turns text into natural-sounding speech, using its own MARS speech models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Fish Audio: A text-to-speech site with a large library of community voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Kits AI: Music-focused voice tools: turn a sung or spoken take into another voice, clone your own singing voice, and split songs into vocals and instruments. (Tool, Closed, free option)
MiniMax Audio: MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. (Tool, Closed)
NaturalReader: Reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural-sounding voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Parler-TTS: A free, open text-to-speech model for English where you describe the voice in words (for example 'a calm female voice, very clear audio') and it reads your text that way. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Voicemod: A free app that changes how your voice sounds in real time while you chat, stream or play games, with 200+ voices and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, by editing audio or a podcast I recorded

Async (formerly Podcastle): An online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Riverside: A browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech): A browser tool that makes speech recorded on a phone or laptop sound like it was done in a quiet studio by removing background noise and echo. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Auphonic: Upload a podcast or recording and it automatically evens out volume, reduces noise and hum, cuts silences and filler words, and can write a transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Cleanvoice AI: Cleans up podcast and voice recordings in your browser: removes background noise, filler words like 'um', mouth sounds and long silences, and can transcribe and summarise. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Gling: An editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Listnr AI: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text and get a voiceover in one of 1,000+ voices and 140+ languages, for videos, audiobooks or podcasts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, read my text aloud

Amazon Polly: Amazon's cloud service that reads text aloud in dozens of voices and languages. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Bark: A free, downloadable model that turns text into speech in 13 languages, and can add laughs, sighs, background noise or a little music. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Cartesia: A fast text-to-speech and speech-to-text service aimed at developers building voice apps and phone agents. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Chatterbox: A free, downloadable family of text-to-speech models from Resemble AI that read text aloud in 23 languages and can copy a voice from a short clip. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Dia: A free, downloadable speech model that turns a written two-person script into spoken dialogue, including laughs and coughs. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Eleven v3: ElevenLabs' expressive text-to-speech model. (Model, Closed, free option)
ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
F5-TTS: A free research text-to-speech model that copies the voice in a short reference clip and reads new text in it. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Fish Audio: A text-to-speech site with a large library of community voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Google Cloud Text-to-Speech: Google's developer service that turns written text into spoken audio in many voices and languages, paid per character. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Hume AI: A company known for expressive AI voices. (Tool, Closed)
Kokoro-82M: A small, free text-to-speech model that reads text aloud in 54 voices across 8 languages. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Listnr AI: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text and get a voiceover in one of 1,000+ voices and 140+ languages, for videos, audiobooks or podcasts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
LOVO AI: A browser tool for making voiceovers from a script, with a library of ready-made voices and the option to clone voices on paid plans. (Tool, Closed)
MiniMax Audio: MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. (Tool, Closed)
Murf AI: A browser studio for turning a script into a voiceover, choosing from a library of ready-made voices in many languages. (Tool, Closed)
Narakeet: Turns typed text into spoken audio, and can build narrated videos from slides or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
NaturalReader: Reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural-sounding voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
OpenAI Speech API: OpenAI's pay-as-you-go developer service for turning text into speech with a set of ready-made voices, and for turning recordings into text. (Tool, Closed)
OpenAudio S1: A text-to-speech model from the team behind Fish Audio that reads text in 13 languages and lets you add emotion tags like (sad) or (whispering). (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Parler-TTS: A free, open text-to-speech model for English where you describe the voice in words (for example 'a calm female voice, very clear audio') and it reads your text that way. (Model, Fully open, free option)
PlayHT (PlayAI): An online text-to-speech service that reads your text aloud in many voices and languages, with multi-speaker dialogue and an option to copy a voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Sesame CSM: A free, downloadable speech model built to sound natural in back-and-forth conversation. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Speechify: Reads documents, web pages and scanned text aloud in natural voices, mainly for studying and listening on the go. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Typecast: Type a script and pick from a library of AI voices to have it read aloud with adjustable emotion, or turn it into a talking-avatar video. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Voicemaker: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text, pick from a library of voices and languages, and download the narration as an audio file. (Tool, Closed, free option)
WellSaid Labs: A text-to-speech studio for business voiceovers such as training videos and adverts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
XTTS-v2: A downloadable text-to-speech model that reads text aloud in 17 languages and can copy a voice from a 6-second clip. (Model, Downloadable, with conditions, free option)
Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Akool: A large web toolkit for AI video: talking presenters, talking photos, face swap (including live), video translation and voice cloning, plus picture and video makers that run many other companies' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Arcads: Makes video adverts in the style of social-media testimonials, using a library of AI actors who read your script. (Tool, Closed)
Async (formerly Podcastle): An online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
CAMB.AI: Translates and dubs videos and live streams into other languages, and turns text into natural-sounding speech, using its own MARS speech models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Clipchamp: Microsoft's simple video editor for the browser and Windows. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Deepgram: A pay-as-you-go service for developers that turns speech into text (live or from files) and text into speech, priced per minute or per character. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Dubverse: A web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech. (Tool, Closed)
fal: A pay-as-you-go service for running many AI models through code or a web playground: image, video, speech, 3D, and talking-avatar and lip-sync models from various makers. (Place to run it, Closed)
Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Fliki: Turns a script, idea, blog post or slides into a narrated video with stock visuals, AI voices and optional avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
getimg.ai: A browser workspace for making and editing pictures with many different AI models, plus video, music, speech and sound effects. (Tool, Closed)
Hedra: Makes any face in a picture talk or sing along to an audio track, using its own Character 3 model or others it hosts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Hugging Face: The main public library of AI models, where makers publish open models for pictures, video, speech, music and 3D. (Place to run it, free option)
ImagineArt: An all-in-one creative site for pictures, video and audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
invideo AI: A browser video editor where you describe changes in plain words and an AI agent makes them on a timeline. (Tool, Closed)
Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Magnific: Began as an AI upscaler that makes images sharper and larger while adding detail. (Tool, Closed)
MyEdit: A browser and phone editor with simple AI audio tools: remove or isolate vocals, make music or sound effects from a description, clean up noisy recordings, change your voice and read text aloud. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Picsart: A popular photo and video editor for phone and web with many AI tools: make pictures from a description, remove backgrounds, enhance photos, and generate video, voice and music using dozens of other makers' models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Replicate: A pay-as-you-go service for running thousands of AI models by other makers, for pictures, video, speech, music and text. (Place to run it, Closed)
Resemble AI: Used to offer voice cloning and text to speech, but has stopped selling voice generation. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Respeecher: Makes your recorded voice sound like a different voice (speech-to-speech), or reads text aloud, using a library of ready-made voices. (Tool, Closed)
Revid AI: A browser tool for making short social videos (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) from an idea, a web link or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Runpod: Rents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models. (Place to run it, Closed)
Synthesys: A browser studio for making video adverts and explainer videos from a brief, a web link or your own footage, with stock AI presenters, AI voiceover, images and short AI clips. (Tool, Closed)
VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Voice-Swap: A web studio for turning a sung or spoken recording into another voice from its library, splitting songs into parts, and reading text aloud. (Tool, Closed)
Vozo: Translates and dubs videos into other languages, can match lip movements to the new audio, and translates subtitles and on-screen text. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vyond: A browser app for making animated explainer and training videos with cartoon-style characters, AI presenters and text-to-speech voices. (Tool, Closed)
WaveSpeedAI: A pay-as-you-go service for running many makers' AI models: video (Seedance, Wan, Kling, Veo and others), images, speech and music, lip-sync avatars and 3D. (Place to run it, Closed, free option)
Zebracat: Turns a prompt, script or blog post into a finished short video with AI clips, stock footage, a voiceover and captions. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, text from a recording

AssemblyAI: A speech-to-text service for developers: send it recordings or live audio and get back text, with options such as who-said-what, translation and summaries. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Deepgram: A pay-as-you-go service for developers that turns speech into text (live or from files) and text into speech, priced per minute or per character. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Distil-Whisper: A smaller, faster version of OpenAI's Whisper that turns English speech into text, about six times quicker than the full model. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Happy Scribe: Upload a recording or video and get a written transcript or subtitles, which it can also translate into other languages. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Hugging Face: The main public library of AI models, where makers publish open models for pictures, video, speech, music and 3D. (Place to run it, free option)
MacWhisper: A Mac app that turns recordings, videos and meetings into text on your own computer, so audio need not leave your Mac. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Notta: Turns meetings, calls and uploaded recordings into written transcripts, with AI summaries and translation. (Tool, Closed, free option)
NVIDIA Parakeet: A free speech-recognition model from NVIDIA that turns recordings in 25 European languages into punctuated text with timestamps. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Otter.ai: Joins your Zoom, Teams or Google Meet calls and writes down what is said, with speaker names and an AI summary you can ask questions of. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Rev: Turns recordings into text using AI, or by paid human transcribers for higher accuracy. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Sonix: Turns audio and video recordings into editable text transcripts in the browser, and can translate them and make subtitles. (Tool, Closed)
Whisper: A free speech-recognition model from OpenAI that turns recordings into text in many languages and can translate speech into English text. (Model, Fully open, free option)
Adobe Podcast (Enhance Speech): A browser tool that makes speech recorded on a phone or laptop sound like it was done in a quiet studio by removing background noise and echo. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Adobe Premiere: Adobe's professional video editor. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Async (formerly Podcastle): An online studio for podcasts and videos: record remote guests, get transcripts, clean up and edit audio, and turn text into speech with AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
AudioShake: Splits audio into separate parts: vocals and instruments in a song, or dialogue, music and effects in a film soundtrack. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Auphonic: Upload a podcast or recording and it automatically evens out volume, reduces noise and hum, cuts silences and filler words, and can write a transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses. (Tool, Closed, free option)
CAMB.AI: Translates and dubs videos and live streams into other languages, and turns text into natural-sounding speech, using its own MARS speech models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Cartesia: A fast text-to-speech and speech-to-text service aimed at developers building voice apps and phone agents. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Cleanvoice AI: Cleans up podcast and voice recordings in your browser: removes background noise, filler words like 'um', mouth sounds and long silences, and can transcribe and summarise. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Clipchamp: Microsoft's simple video editor for the browser and Windows. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Descript: Edit audio and video by editing a written transcript, like a document. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Dubverse: A web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech. (Tool, Closed)
ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Filmora: A video editing app for computers and phones from Wondershare, with built-in AI extras: make clips from a description or photo, lengthen clips, auto captions, text to speech, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Gling: An editing helper for people who film themselves talking, such as YouTubers. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Kapwing: An online video editor that works in your browser. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Krisp: Runs alongside your video-call apps to remove background noise and echo from your voice, transcribe meetings and write notes. (Tool, Closed)
MiniMax Audio: MiniMax's text-to-speech service: a web app and paid API that read text aloud in realistic voices, copy a voice from a 10-second sample, or design a new voice from a description. (Tool, Closed)
Narakeet: Turns typed text into spoken audio, and can build narrated videos from slides or a script. (Tool, Closed, free option)
OpenAI Speech API: OpenAI's pay-as-you-go developer service for turning text into speech with a set of ready-made voices, and for turning recordings into text. (Tool, Closed)
Rask AI: A web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Riverside: A browser studio for recording podcasts and video interviews with remote guests in high quality, then editing them by editing the transcript. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Runpod: Rents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models. (Place to run it, Closed)
Speechify: Reads documents, web pages and scanned text aloud in natural voices, mainly for studying and listening on the go. (Tool, Closed, free option)
VEED: An online video editor aimed at social media. (Tool, Closed, free option)

A voice or speech, my audio in another language

CAMB.AI: Translates and dubs videos and live streams into other languages, and turns text into natural-sounding speech, using its own MARS speech models. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Dubverse: A web tool that translates and re-voices your videos into other languages with AI voices, and also makes subtitles and text-to-speech. (Tool, Closed)
Adobe Firefly: Adobe's AI studio for making and editing pictures from text, plus short videos, voiceovers, music and sound effects. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses. (Tool, Closed, free option)
ElevenLabs: Type text and get natural-sounding speech in many languages, or make a copy of your own voice. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Fliki: Turns a script, idea, blog post or slides into a narrated video with stock visuals, AI voices and optional avatars. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Listnr AI: A browser text-to-speech tool: paste text and get a voiceover in one of 1,000+ voices and 140+ languages, for videos, audiobooks or podcasts. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Magic Hour: A web app with dozens of quick AI tools on one credit balance: make or restyle video clips, swap faces, sync lips to new audio, animate a photo, and make images, voices and music. (Tool, Closed, free option)
OpenAI Speech API: OpenAI's pay-as-you-go developer service for turning text into speech with a set of ready-made voices, and for turning recordings into text. (Tool, Closed)
Pictory: A browser video editor that turns a script, blog post or long recording into a narrated video with stock footage, captions and AI voices. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Rask AI: A web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Vyond: A browser app for making animated explainer and training videos with cartoon-style characters, AI presenters and text-to-speech voices. (Tool, Closed)

A voice or speech, a written translation of a recording

AssemblyAI: A speech-to-text service for developers: send it recordings or live audio and get back text, with options such as who-said-what, translation and summaries. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Azure AI Speech: Microsoft's cloud speech service for developers and businesses. (Tool, Closed, free option)
FlexClip: A browser video editor with templates and many AI helpers: turn a prompt, article or slides into a video, add AI voiceovers, subtitles and music, remove backgrounds and make AI images. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Happy Scribe: Upload a recording or video and get a written transcript or subtitles, which it can also translate into other languages. (Tool, Closed, free option)
MacWhisper: A Mac app that turns recordings, videos and meetings into text on your own computer, so audio need not leave your Mac. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Notta: Turns meetings, calls and uploaded recordings into written transcripts, with AI summaries and translation. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Rask AI: A web app that translates the speech in your videos into other languages, re-voices them in a copy of the original speaker's voice, and can match lip movements to the new audio. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Rev: Turns recordings into text using AI, or by paid human transcribers for higher accuracy. (Tool, Closed, free option)
Sonix: Turns audio and video recordings into editable text transcripts in the browser, and can translate them and make subtitles. (Tool, Closed)
Whisper: A free speech-recognition model from OpenAI that turns recordings into text in many languages and can translate speech into English text. (Model, Fully open, free option)