ElevenLabs
The best-known hosted speech synthesis service. Very good, and the one with the most developed consent process for cloning a voice.
- Hosted
- Active
- Unknown adult content
- Pay as you go
At a glance
- Where it runs
- HostedSomeone else runs it. Whatever you type reaches their servers.
- Adult content
- UnknownWe have not found a clear answer. We would rather say so.
- Trains on your content
- UnknownNo clear statement found.
- Status
- ActiveMaintained and working today.
- Account needed
- Yes
- Licence
- Proprietary
- Cost
- Free tier with a character allowance; paid tiers above it.
- What it keeps
- Generated audio and inputs are held on their servers under their terms.
Quality is the reason it is the default recommendation, and the verification step is the reason it belongs in a catalog that cares about consent: cloning your own voice on their professional tier requires recording a spoken statement, which is a meaningfully higher bar than the local tools impose.
It is hosted and metered. Audio and the text behind it go to their servers.
Worth knowing before you start
- Metered Cost scales with characters generated; long-form work adds up.
- Hosted only There is no offline version.
What it does
- High-quality speech synthesis
- Voice cloning with verification
- Many languages
- API
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- Last answered
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