Alternatives to TTSMaker
A free online text-to-speech tool with over 600 voices in more than 100 languages. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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TTSMaker
A free online text-to-speech tool with over 600 voices in more than 100 languages.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as TTSMaker.
ElevenLabs
An AI voice platform for text to speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech to text and music.
ElevenLabs is a freemium online platform with a large voice library in over 70 languages, adding voice cloning, dubbing and an API for developers.
Murf AI
A web studio for creating AI voiceovers and dubbing videos, with a voice API for developers.
Murf AI is a freemium browser voiceover studio with video dubbing and a developer API, but it requires an account and heavier use needs a paid plan.
Voicemaker
An online text-to-speech converter with many AI voices, adjustable pauses and audio export.
Voicemaker is a freemium online converter with pause, pitch and speed controls and SRT and TXT export, though the pronunciation editor needs a paid plan.
Narakeet
An online text-to-speech tool that makes voiceovers, audio files and narrated videos from text and slides.
Narakeet is a paid online tool covering about 100 languages that also turns PowerPoint and Markdown into narrated videos, with API and command line tools.
Fish Audio
A web platform for AI text-to-speech, voice cloning and speech-to-text with a large community voice library.
Fish Audio is a freemium web platform with over two million community voices, inline emotion tags and voice cloning, with heavier use needing a paid plan.
WellSaid
A web-based AI voice generator for producing voiceovers from scripts in several styles and dialects.
WellSaid is a business-oriented web voice generator with voices made from professional actors and selectable styles, requiring an account and often sales-led plans.
Balabolka
A free Windows program that reads text aloud with installed voices and saves it as audio files.
Balabolka is a free Windows program that saves text as audio files offline using installed system voices, so quality depends on those engines.
Piper
A fast neural text-to-speech engine that runs locally, even on modest hardware like a Raspberry Pi.
Piper is a free GPL-3.0 engine that generates speech locally with no cloud dependency, but it has no graphical interface and targets command-line use.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Speechify
A text-to-speech and voice typing app that reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud.
NaturalReader
A text-to-speech app that reads documents, PDFs, web pages and scanned text aloud with AI voices.
Fliki
An online tool that turns scripts, blog posts or prompts into videos with AI voiceovers.
Kokoro
Small, fast open-weight text-to-speech model you can run locally.
