Controllable multilingual speech from a script. / Why: Free has 10k credits; Starter is $6. Credits are not minutes.
Free· paid from$6/mo
Credits are not minutesChecked 2026-10-19·elevenlabs.io/pricing
vs RunwayVoice & audio
68 tools. Most people should start with one of the three below: TTS you can voice-clone, a transcript that is the edit, or a reader for a document you already have.
OUR TAKE
Start with ElevenLabs for controllable multilingual speech, Descript if you edit the transcript as the timeline, or Speechify to listen to a document.
Good fit
Podcast, product, and localization teams who need speech they can ship
Poor fit
People who need a talking-head avatar — see HeyGen
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Listen to a document, PDF, or page in a chosen voice. / Why: see the Speechify page for the live Free / Premium cards.
Free· paid from$29/mo
Free voices are roboticChecked 2026-10-26·speechify.com/pricing
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AssemblyAI is a Voice AI API (pre-recorded STT, streaming STT, Voice Agent, Speech Understanding)
Free· paid from$0.15
Streaming bills idle socket timeChecked 2026-10-20·assemblyai.com/pricing
vs Deepgram
Deepgram is a speech API with a signed-out playground: pick Nova-3, toggle Smart Format / interim results, and hit Start listening
Paid only$4/yr
Streaming is metered while the socket is openChecked 2026-10-20·deepgram.com/pricing
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Murf AI is a voice studio plus voice-agent demo: the signed-out Agents page (see the cover) is Call Kim — All Agents / Customer Support /…
Free· paid from$0.01
Studio minutes are per year on the yearly cardsChecked 2026-10-20·murf.ai/pricing
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OpenAI Whisper is a speech-to-text model you can run locally: drop an audio file (or a mic clip) on the official Hugging Face Space and…
Free· open source,MIT
Local is not free electricityChecked 2026-10-20·github.com/openai/whisper
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Udio is a signed-out song composer: hit Start Creating on udio.com and describe a track (see the cover: Style → Lyrics → Vibe → Generate,…
Free· paid from$10/mo yearly
Credits do not roll overChecked 2026-10-20·udio.com/pricing
vs Suno
Suno is a hosted text-to-song studio: the signed-out home is “Make any song you can imagine” with a Chat to make music box, Advanced, and…
Free· paid from$8/mo
Free is 50 credits/dayChecked 2026-10-19·suno.com/pricing
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