Amazon Polly AlternativesText to Speech Services and other similar apps like Amazon Polly

Amazon Polly is described as 'Uses deep learning technologies to synthesize natural-sounding human speech, so you can convert articles to speech. With dozens of lifelike voices across a broad set of languages, use Amazon Polly to build speech-activated applications' and is a Text to Speech service in the development category. There are more than 25 alternatives to Amazon Polly for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, SaaS, Mac, Windows and Android apps. The best Amazon Polly alternative is VoiceCraft, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Amazon Polly are X to Voice, Kokoro, Voice Engine and NaturalReader.

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  1. VoiceCraft icon
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    VoiceCraft is a token infilling neural codec language model, that achieves state-of-the-art performance on both speech editing and zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) on in-the-wild data including audiobooks, internet videos, and podcasts.

    42 VoiceCraft alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
     
    • VoiceCraft is the most popular Web-based alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • VoiceCraft is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • VoiceCraft is Free and Open SourceAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. X to Voice icon
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    Open-source tool that analyzes your X/Twitter profile data to generate a custom voice with ElevenLabs Voice Design API, integrating with Hedra's video API for an innovative audio-visual experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • X to Voice is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • X to Voice is Free and Open SourceAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
  3. Kokoro icon
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    Kokoro is an open-weight TTS model with 82 million parameters. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to larger models while being significantly faster and more cost-efficient.

    66 Kokoro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
  4. Voice Engine icon
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    Voice Engine is a text-to-voice generation platform from OpenAI, which uses text input and a single 15-second audio sample to generate natural-sounding speech that closely resembles the original speaker.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Voice Engine is the most popular commercial alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • Voice Engine is Paid and ProprietaryAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. NaturalReader icon
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    Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words. The paid versions of Natural Reader have many more features.

    142 NaturalReader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
    • NaturalReader is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • NaturalReader is Free Personal and ProprietaryAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
  6. SherpaTTS  icon
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    SherpaTTS is an Android Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi using Piper or Coqui voices.

    48 SherpaTTS alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
    • SherpaTTS is the most popular Android alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • SherpaTTS is Free and Open SourceAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
    • SherpaTTS is Privacy focusedAmazon Polly is not according to our users
  7. Jellypod icon
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    Create AI podcasts by uploading websites, PDFs, or documents, selecting customizable hosts and scripts, generating episodes with outline planning, editing outputs, and publishing audio content—streamlining production for creators without manual recording.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Wondera icon
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    Karaoke and transform any songs in your AI voice. No singing skill required, your AI voice can handle any song even in other languages!.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
    • iPhone
     
    • Wondera is the most popular iPhone alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • Wondera is Free and ProprietaryAmazon Polly is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Wondercraft AI is a tool that allows users to easily create studio-quality podcasts using generative AI technology. It eliminates the need for extensive recording and scripting by allowing users to record just a 60-second sample of their voice, which the AI uses to clone their...

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. Descript icon
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    AI-powered tool for editing audio and video by editing transcribed text, featuring transcription, filler removal, captions, background replacement, rapid translation, collaboration, mastering, recording, and viral content identification features.

    61 Descript alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  11. LOVO icon
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    Choose from 60+ human-like, emotional voices in various accents, languages, and characters to turn any text into a commercial-grade audio. Or Clone your own voice.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • LOVO is the most popular SaaS alternative to Amazon Polly.

    • LOVO is Freemium and ProprietaryAmazon Polly is also Freemium and Proprietary
  12. Voicebox icon
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    Voicebox is a state-of-the-art speech generative model built upon Meta’s non-autoregressive flow matching model. By learning to solve a text-guided speech infilling task with a large scale of data, Voicebox outperforms single purpose AI models across speech tasks through...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
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