The best Voice & Audio tools

ElevenLabs is a speech AI platform offering text-to-speech across 70+ languages, instant and professional voice cloning, speech-to-speech performance transfer, dubbing that preserves timing and voice, sound effects and music generation, and speech-to-text. It provides a community voice library, a Studio for long-form projects, conversational voice agents, and an API used widely in production applications. It is a common default for high-quality synthetic narration in video workflows.

WellSaid Labs is a text-to-speech platform focused on studio-quality synthetic voice actors for corporate use, with a curated set of licensed voice avatars rather than open-ended cloning. Its studio supports pronunciation control, emphasis and respelling for precise delivery, and it offers custom voice creation for enterprise customers along with an API. Its positioning emphasises ethically licensed voice talent and consistency for e-learning and product narration.

Udio generates full songs with vocals and instrumentation from text prompts, with fine-grained controls for extending sections, remixing, inpainting parts of a track and separating stems. It runs as a web app on a credit-based subscription, with commercial rights tied to paid tiers. It competes directly with Suno in the generative music space.

Resemble AI provides voice cloning, text-to-speech, speech-to-speech and localisation across 140+ languages, with an emphasis on enterprise deployment options including on-premise and private cloud. It also builds detection tooling — its Detect product and audio watermarking — for identifying AI-generated audio and deepfakes, which sets it apart from purely generative voice vendors. Its API is used for real-time voice in games, agents and media production.

Wavel AI is a video localisation platform covering AI dubbing, subtitling, transcription and voice cloning across 70+ languages, with an editor for adjusting timing and translated text. It supports lip-sync dubbing, multi-speaker detection and export of subtitle files, plus text-to-speech for original narration. It is aimed at teams adapting existing video for international audiences.

TTSMaker is a free online text-to-speech tool supporting 100+ languages and hundreds of voices, with no account required for basic use and generous character limits. It permits commercial use of the generated audio under its stated terms and exports MP3 and WAV. It is a lightweight utility for quick voiceover rather than a studio platform with cloning or project management.

Suno generates complete songs — vocals, lyrics and instrumentation — from a text prompt or user-supplied lyrics, with style controls, song extension, stem separation and the option to upload audio as a starting point. It runs as a web and mobile app on a credit system, with commercial usage rights granted on paid tiers. It is used for original background music, jingles and full tracks where licensing stock music would otherwise be needed.

Speechify is primarily a text-to-speech reader that narrates documents, PDFs, web pages, emails and books aloud across browser extension, mobile and desktop apps, with adjustable speed and a range of natural voices including licensed celebrity ones. It also offers Speechify Studio for producing voiceover, dubbing and AI avatar videos, plus an API. Its main audience is reading accessibility and productivity, with the studio serving content production.

Speechelo is a text-to-speech tool sold as a one-time purchase rather than a subscription, generating voiceovers across 20+ languages with a selection of male and female voices and three reading tones. It inserts breathing and pause markers to make delivery sound less robotic and exports audio for use in a separate video editor. Its voice quality reflects an older generation of TTS compared with current neural voice platforms.

Play.ht (PlayAI) is a voice AI platform providing text-to-speech across 100+ languages, instant and high-fidelity voice cloning, and a conversational voice agent product for real-time phone and in-app interactions. Its studio supports multi-voice narration for podcasts and long-form audio with pronunciation controls, and it offers an API for developers. It is used both for pre-rendered narration and live voice applications.

Murf is a text-to-speech platform offering 200+ voices across 20+ languages, with controls for pitch, speed, emphasis and pauses, plus voice cloning and a voice changer. Its studio syncs generated narration to slides, video or images, and it provides dubbing, an API and integrations with tools such as Canva and Google Slides. It is aimed at e-learning, corporate training and marketing voiceover.

Mubert generates royalty-free background music by assembling loops and stems contributed by human artists, producing tracks of arbitrary length from a text prompt, genre or mood. It offers separate products for creators, apps, streaming and studio use, plus an API for generating adaptive soundtracks programmatically. Licensing terms vary by plan, with content-creator tiers covering YouTube and social use.

MemoTune is an AI song generator that produces complete royalty-free tracks across genres from a text description or supplied lyrics, with control over mood, vocals and instrumentation. It is aimed at content creators and non-musicians who need original music without licensing hassle, with commercial usage rights available on paid tiers and output suitable for distribution to streaming platforms.

LOVO (Genny) is a text-to-speech and video editing platform with 500+ voices across 100 languages, emotional delivery controls, voice cloning and pronunciation editing. Genny pairs the voiceover generation with a simple video editor, auto-subtitles and an AI art generator so narrated videos can be assembled in one place. It is aimed at creators, e-learning producers and marketers.

AIVA is an AI music composition tool that generates original instrumental tracks from a chosen style, mood, duration and key, with over 250 preset styles and the option to train a custom style from reference tracks. Generated compositions can be edited note by note in a built-in editor and exported as MP3, WAV or MIDI. Copyright ownership of the output depends on plan tier, with full ownership granted on its highest paid plan.