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CATEGORY 08 · 13 TOOLS

Voice & audio

Text-to-speech, voice cloning, transcription and voice agents.

ESSENTIAL IN VOICE & AUDIO

  1. ElevenLabs

    AI voice platform: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, dubbing, music and voice agents.

    FREE TIER

  2. LiveKit

    Open-source framework and cloud for building voice, video and physical AI agents.

    FREE TIER

All 13 Voice & audio tools

  1. ElevenLabs

    AI voice platform: text-to-speech, speech-to-text, voice cloning, dubbing, music and voice agents.

    EssentialFree tier

  2. LiveKit

    Open-source framework and cloud for building voice, video and physical AI agents.

    EssentialFree tier

  3. Cartesia

    Voice AI company: Sonic text-to-speech, Ink speech-to-text and Managed Agents, a fully managed platform to build and run real-time voice agents…

    Worth a lookPricing unknown

  4. Cekura

    Testing and monitoring for AI voice agents (YC F24).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  5. Deepgram

    Real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs, used by enterprises and 200k+ developers.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  6. Dessa (Block)

    Research-preview voice AI from a small AI lab inside Block (Square, Cash App), reporting to Jack Dorsey and led by Ragavan Thurairatnam, co-founder…

    Worth a lookContact sales

  7. Fish Audio

    AI voices you can't tell from humans: expressive multilingual speech models and developer APIs.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  8. Gradium

    The voice layer for agents: real-time TTS, STT, voice cloning, voice design and live translation.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  9. NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe

    NVIDIA's open-weight speech model (34B total / 4.3B active parameters): transcription in 40 languages, translation to and from English,…

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  10. Speechmatics

    Speech recognition for agents: 'the best ears in AI' to understand every voice.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  11. Suno

    AI music generator; now usable from Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP apps (beta).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  12. Vapi

    Developer platform to build, test and deploy voice AI agents at scale.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  13. Wispr Flow

    Voice dictation that turns speech into formatted text in any app; now with Notetaker.

    Worth a lookFree tier