As a student currently doing a project that requires a lot of dry reading, I'm looking for a simple text to speech site (a chrome extension or something along those lines would also work) which I can use to listen along with said reading.

Most sites I have found are either super realistic, subscription based AI tools which can only take a few thousand words at a time, or google translate voice levels of difficult to listen to.

I'm looking for anything in between which is free and can take large amounts of text, but is as comfortable to listen to as possible.

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer, I apologise if this has been asked before, but I've been unable to find a post with my specific purposes in mind.

I'm looking for a high quality, free text to speech (TTS) AI that sounds as close to a real human as possible — preferably with multiple voice options (male/female, accents, etc). It could be an app, website, or downloadable software. I’ve tried a few that sound robotic or overly synthetic, and I’m hoping there’s something better out there that still doesn’t require payment.

Any recommendations?

I tried using the internet edge read aloud and it always gets confused reading a reddit post. I like to do aaaalot of research on Reddit so I figure if I can find a good app, I can multitask and do other stuff while the program is speaking to me. I use android and windows 10.

I tried to research this awhile ago but couldn't find any answers.

I like using TTS to read my textbooks and assigned readings, I used this one software (Natural Reader I think) and it had AI voices for premium, for free accounts you only got 5 minutes a day. I found with those AI voices vs the normal robotic sounding TTS it helped me focus better. I'm curious if there is anything similar but free because I don't feel like paying a monthly subscription.

Doing some placeholder audio dialogue lines for our game in progress. Any tips on the best free TTS available? What sounds the least robotic, and maybe even allows for some intonation?

Hey Redditors,

I’m currently exploring different text-to-speech (TTS) AI tools and was wondering what everyone here is using. I’m looking for something that delivers natural-sounding voices, supports multiple languages, and ideally offers some customization features like speed, pitch, or emotion.

natural reader only lets you download a million characters per month, and it is 22$ a month. eleven labs doesnt let you read more than 22k minutes and cant even download it, even for 1.3k$ a month, and cloud tts only allows like500 charcaters at a time. i have 100k's of chacrers i need to copy and download, maybe even millions.

Been trying to find a decent text-to-speech tool that's actually free. Most of them are trash - tiny character limits, robot voices, or they hit you with subscriptions after the first sentence.

Found something called cliptics that's been working pretty well but wondering what else is out there? Need something for listening to long articles and research papers while commuting.

What do you guys actually use that works?

It’s been a while since I used one, wondering if anything new has come around?

Speechify is great but ain't no way I'm paying 30/mn for it.

I am doing some dialogues for my game and i need to use a TTS just as a placeholder before i can afford a real commentator

They all want you to pay OR listen to an AI voice that is torture to hear. Any advice?

I was looking for a good and free text to speech app that I could use to turn some of my ebooks into audio books and I tried speechify but the free voices are so distracting that I can even concentrate on the novel. What are the best free apps I could use? Thanks :)

I just got Applio to try and use the TTS voice synthesiser. However the problem is that the base TTS that Applio uses before it converts the voices is incredibly robotic and stiff, making the TTS basically useless.

Are there any actually halfway decent TTS voices I can use so I can import them into Applio?

From what I've seen only ElevenLabs has natural sounding voices, they also have an emotional range. However you still need to figure things out through trial and error, which means you are burning through the allowed words you've paid for just trying to get something decent.

I am looking for a fully free AI that can convert text into speech.

Want to type my own study material and have the ability to play it back, on loops, slow down if needed, etc. any good free sites for that?

I have not been able to find free nor paid versions of many niche books I’m looking to listen to. All suggestions on Reddit seem to suggest Eleven, but that was before it became pay to play. I listen to books for many many hours a day when I’m working so the 2 hours a week wouldn’t cut it.

Most of my books are free on internet archive or hoopla. The built in reader on the Internet archive is awful and painful to listen to for more than a few minutes.

What is the best free reader for my needs?