AI audio startup ElevenLabs has now made its text-to-speech Reader app accessible internationally, including assist for 32 totally different languages — together with Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.
There’s a wide variety of AI-generated voices accessible 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 stated their respective heirs had been “excited to see their’ legacies reside 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 firm is, nevertheless, planning to “finally launch some premium model of the app,” however is promising to have a “beneficiant free plan” accessible when that occurs.
