AI audio startup ElevenLabs has now made its text-to-speech Reader app obtainable the world over, including assist for 32 completely different languages — together with Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.
There’s a wide selection of AI-generated voices obtainable for the text-to-speech device, together with deceased celebrities like Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds. The few I’ve listened to are spectacular sufficient to keep away from sounding overly robotic. ElevenLabs said their respective heirs had been “excited to see their’ legacies stay on” at launch, so these voices are presumably licensed.
The reader app is free to obtain and use, and received’t devour credit from the broader ElevenLabs web-based subscription plan. The corporate is, nevertheless, planning to “finally launch some premium model of the app,” however is promising to have a “beneficiant free plan” obtainable when that occurs.