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.

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?

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 :)

Can someone be kind enough to put a free text to speech in the comments? I have ADHD and can't for the life of me sit down and read, so I wanted to use text to speech to make books into audiobooks. But every text to speech sight is scummy as hell and wants you to pay an arm and a leg for their trashy site. Could someone help me find one that's actually free? Please and Thanks.

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.

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?

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

a lot of them have a really small daily/weekly character limit, and some of them are really bad quality and I don't think my subconscious would understand the words. does anyone know of any high quality ones that don't require you to pay or download a program?

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.

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

Every single time I find a good one, they change it and make it worse. They make the text limit ridiculously short, or they make it so you can only enter a certain amount a day. And if you want to use it unlimited you have to pay, and I am unable to pay for things online. And then just when I thought I found a new good one, every single time I convert text to speech it makes me have to do a captcha EVERY TIME. Can anyone help me find one that is not frustrating, and is completely free, doesn't have a daily limit and lets me generate more than just one paragraph? Thanks.

Hey all, what would you recommend for a text to speech program used to listen to a ton of assigned reading for school/work? The character limit on elevenlabs, even paid is way too low.

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 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 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

Hi everyone, I need a TTS tool that sounds exactly like a human voice. I want to use it to edit some of my YouTube videos. I see a lot of TTS platforms around. Which do you recommend? I hope this isn't too much to ask. I would gladly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Hello, I made this website that allows you to paste text and then immediately start listening to the audio as it generates. (It generates faster then real time, so as you listen it will update the audio autimatically till it is complete.) Feel free to check it out, and I would love to know what you think.

https://tts.thinkins.xyz