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Not Just a Text to Speech Tool

Create flawless voice overs with customisation features like Pitch, Pause, Pronunciation.
Make the voiceover sound the way you want.

Emphasize specific words

Want to make your voiceover sound interesting? Use Murf’s ‘Emphasis’ feature to put that extra force on syllables, words, or phrases that add life to your voiceover.

Take control of your narration with pitch

Use Murf’s ‘Pitch’ functionality to draw the listeners' attention to words or phrases expressing emotions. Customize the voice as you like to make it work for yourself.

Elevate your story with pauses

Add pauses of varying lengths to your narration using Murf’s ‘Pause’ feature to give the listener's attention powers a rest and prepare them to receive your message.

Perfect Word Pronunciation

Articulate words accurately and enhance clarity in speech by customizing pronunciation. Use alternative spellings or IPAs to achieve the right pronunciation.

Fine Tune Narration Speed

Effortlessly increase or decrease the pace of the voiceover to ensure it aligns with the rhythm and flow of the message.

Expressive Voice Style Palette

Infuse your narration with the exact emotion your content needs using Murf’s dynamic voice styles. Choose from versatile options like excited, sad, angry, calm, terrified, friendly, and more.

Text to Voice Made Easy

Explore the magic of converting text into spoken words.
Watch our step-by-step guide to discover the simple steps to achieve natural-sounding brilliance.

Reliable and Secure. Your Data, Our Promise.

Murf is designed to meet your security and compliance requirements. Our systems are built to protect your data and ensure user security.

Why Use Murf Text to Speech?

Murf's text to audio software changes the way you create and edit voiceovers with lifelike, flawless AI voices. What used to take hours, weeks, or even months now only takes minutes. You can also include images, videos, and presentations to your voiceover and sync them together without the need for a third-party tool. Here are a few reasons why you should use Murf's text to speech.

Save time and hundreds of dollars in recording expensive voice overs.

Creating voiceovers the traditional way requires you to hire a professional voice artist, invest in expensive recording equipment, rent a recording studio, and outsource the recorded piece to an editor to modify and edit the voiceover.  Not only is the entire process time-consuming but also highly expensive. With Murf, you don’t have to spend as much time and money to get creative and produce high-quality voiceovers.

Editing voice over is as simple as editing text. Just cut, copy paste and render.

Producing high-quality, realistic voice overs with Murf is simple 4 step process. Copy-paste an existing script or type in the text for your script on Murf’s text editor. Choose an AI voice of your choice from Murf’s growing library of emotive voices across different languages and accents. Use custom features like emphasis, pause, pronunciation and more to add more depth to your voice over narration. Click on ‘Build Audio’ to render the final voiceover. 

Create a consistent brand voice across all your customer touchpoints.

Murf now also enables you to replicate your own voice or the voice of another person as an AI voice. All we need is a custom script recorded by the voice actor or the person whose voice needs to be cloned. The Murf team will process the audio content and voice samples on the backend to get a custom voice ready. And voila, the AI voice clone is ready. Users can get round-the-clock access to their custom voice in Murf Studio.

Connect with global customers effectively with our multiple language AI voices.

Convert your text to speech in almost any language. From English to Chinese to Japanese to Hindi and more, we have got you covered. Our voices span a variety of ages, gender, and tonalities. Explore different voice and language combinations to produce a result that speaks to you and your audience.

Build scalable voice applications with Murf’s API.

Integrate Murf's versatile voice generation capabilities into your products, applications, and workflows, enabling users to create and enjoy engaging and immersive audio experiences. Developers can use Murf’s text to speech API to generate speech synthesis at scale. We currently offer 40+ voices in English only for API usage.

Voice Over in 20+ Languages

From English and Spanish to Chinese and French, we have got you covered across languages and accents.
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Hear from Our Customers

The quality of English speaking is awesome. Our favorite is "Ava". We use her voice anywhere including IVR voice prompts and YouTube videos. The most important things are the natural pronunciation and the consistency of the voice compared with the real humans.

Hide F.
IT General Manager

Well organized and easy to access all of their voices. I say this because I have a storytelling podcast and write long scripts utilizing different voices as my characters. This is one of a few A.I. voice websites that utilize great African American voices. You can choose from middle age to young adult. As a customer, I also have options such as pitch, speed, emphasis, volume and, more.

Suzanne D.
Self Employed video editor and audio creator.

I have used Murf for many purposes on many different projects. I've used it as the voices in a play script drama, I've used it as the voiceover for a promotional video and I've used it to demonstrate textual comparisons. I have found it very easy to use and very efficient in creating the original versions and then correcting them. The ability to directly edit the text that ultimately becomes the voice is really good. The website works very well and is very consistent and stable.

Jesse S.
Digital Marketing Specialist

The voice generated and the modulation edits are superb to use; also the variety of options available are super good, i personally liked the options of different countries

Mahesh M.
Founder & CEO
Entertainment

We've been using Murf for our content production for a while now, and I can say Murf is the best TTS software out there -yes I've tried most of them single-handedly. Our favourite voice avatar is named AVA, She sounds just like your girlfriend next door! And you don't even have to get the PRO plan to get her voice!

Rian Hafiz
Co-Founder, Optimasi

Whilst updating our Integrated Management System, we decided to modernise the way we provide our front-line project staff with information and guidance. Rather than written documents, we have created a library of short, animated explainer videos. Murf was the perfect solution to provide the voiceover audio. Our scripts were easily uploaded on the Murf platform. The voices are professional, friendly and very clear. When watching our videos, you would not believe that the voiceover is done with AI

Alexander Mul
Business Improvement Director
Imtech, part of EDF Energy, UK

Valuable tool for enhancing e-learning content Murf is a quality, cost-effective solution for creating voiceover narration for our e-learning content. It is easy to use, fast and produces excellent results. It allows us to enhance e-learning content by providing an audio element to enrich content.

Sonje Love
E-Learning Project Manager
Flúirse Education Solutions

Murf is a great tool with the ability to sync high quality voice overs to video. The library of pre-recorded voice options, screen recording is just what you need to help you create a slick video quickly. I would certainly recommend murf.ai to fellow founders and start-ups out there. I will be using your tool again soon!

Cameron Johnson
E-Learning Project Manager
Flúirse Education Solutions

Murf is a great tool with the ability to sync high quality voice overs to video. The library of pre-recorded voice options, screen recording is just what you need to help you create a slick video quickly. I would certainly recommend murf.ai to fellow founders and start-ups out there. I will be using your tool again soon!

Mike Taylor
L & D Consultant
United States

Murf is a human-sounding AI voice-over that is so close to perfection with many features. Have no qualms to recommend it to others.

TS. Loh
Synergy Visual Communication
Malaysia

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is text to speech?
Text to speech is a technology that converts text into spoken language. It is also known as speech synthesis or TTS. The technology or computer system, also called as speech synthesizer can be implemented in software or hardware products to generate high-quality, natural-sounding speech.
Can I try Murf tts for free?
Sure, our free trial gives you access to 10 mins of voice generation time (calculated every time you render audio) in the Studio to try out the voices with your script and check if it works for you. You get access all available voices (120+) on Murf studio to try. If you are happy with the quality of voice over, you can download the final audio file by upgrading to a paid subscription plan.
How to use Murf Text to Speech?
To use Murf text to speech AI, simply create an account and then paste your text into the Murf editor. Choose an AI voice in the language you want, and then click the play icon. Murf will then generate a spoken audio version of your text in minutes. You can then download the audio file or share it online.
Does Murf TTS Software have a mobile app?
We currently have a Studio application that is optimized for desktop only. We do not recommend using the Studio using a mobile device.
What output formats are supported?
Currently, the output formats supported are .mp3, .wav, .flac for audio files and .mp4 and .mov for video files. We also support exporting scripts in .srt, .vtt, .txt, .docx.
Is there a maximum limit on size of voice over per project?
No, there is no limit on the size of voice over you can create in a project. Each text block allows upto 1000 characters and you can keep adding as many blocks as you like. The total voice generation time allotted would be based on the subscribed plan.
Will my voice over project be saved for future editing?
Your projects would be saved for further editing as long as you continue to have a subscription with Murf. Upon cancellation of the subscription the projects would be saved for a period of 6 months post which they would be automatically deleted.  The user retains the rights to delete the projects. If the user deletes their Account with Murf, the projects would be permanently deleted instantly.
Can I use the speech generated, for commercial purposes?
Yes, the voice overs created with Murf can be used commercially.
 Can I upload my own music to go with the voice over?
 Yes, you can upload any music/audio file to add to your voice over.
How do I turn text into audio?
You can convert text into audio by using a text to audio converter like Murf.
Which is the free AI tool for text to audio?
There are several AI text to audio tools available for free, including Natural Reader, Play.ht, FakeYou, and ReadAloud. Other TTS tools have a free version with limitations in use.
What is a text to voice reader?
A text to voice reader is a software application that converts text into spoken audio. They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as creating audiobooks, creating voiceovers for presentations, and more.
How do I make text to speech read?
To make text to speech read, simply copy-paste the text you want to be read aloud into a text to speech generator. Then, choose the voice and language you want, and hit play. The text to speech generator will then read the text aloud in the voice and language you selected.

Text to Speech: What is it and how does it works?

In essence, text to speech is the generation of synthesized speech from text. It was primarily designed as an assistive technology to help individuals with hearing impairments, visual and learning disabilities, and aged citizens to understand and consume content in a better manner. Today, the applications of TTS systems have grown manifold, and range from content creation to voiceover generation to customer service, and more. With a touch of a button, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio files. Today, the technology is used to create narratives for explainer videos or product demos, turn a book into an audio book, generate voiceovers for elearning materials, training videos, ads and commercials, YouTube videos, or podcasts, among other things.

How does TTS work?

Text to speech software leverages AI and deep learning algorithms to process the written input and sythesize a spoken output. The written text is first broken down into individual words and phrases by the TTS software’s text analysis component and then various rules and algorithms are applied to determine the appropriate pronunciation, inflection, and emphasis for each word. The speech synthesis component of the software then takes this information along with pre-recorded sound samples of individual phonemes and uses it to generate the spoken words and sentences, which is then spoken out loud using a synthesized voice generated by a computer or other device. 

Top Five Use Cases of Text to Speech Software

From increasing brand visibility and customer traction to improving customer service and boosting customer engagement to helping people with visual impairments, reading difficulties, and learning disabilities, text to speech is proving to be a game-changing technology across industries. 

Considering the myriad of benefits offered by TTS technology and how simple they make information retention, businesses are integrating text to speech into their workflow in one form or another. Here is a glimpse of all the ways text to speech is currently being utilized:

TTS in Assistive Technology 

For quite some time now, text to speech software has been used as an accessibility tool for individuals with a variety of special needs linked to Dyslexia, visual impairments, or other disabilities that make it difficult to read traditional text. Using TTS platforms, people facing such problems can convert text to speech and learn by listening on the go. Text to speech solutions also improves literacy and comprehension skills. When used in language education, they can make learning more engaging. For example, it's much easier and faster to apprehend a foreign language when listening to the live translation of written words with correct intonation and pronunciation than when reading. 

TTS in Translations

Given the fact that modern text to speech solutions come with multilingual support, brands can reach local customers by converting their content from text to audio in the local language. This will help target and connect with native-speaking customers or audiences in remote areas. 

Furthermore, text to speech solutions can also be used to translate content from one language to another. This is especially beneficial for users who come across a piece of content in a language they don't understand and can have it read aloud in their native language or a language they are adept at for better understanding.

TTS in Customer Service

With advancements in speech synthesis, it has become easier to create text and convert it to pre-recorded voices for interactive voice response calls. Today's TTS technology comes with human-like AI voices that can make natural human conversations on IVR calls. This helps contact centers provide personalized customer interactions without requiring assistance from live agents. 

TTS serves as both an inbound and outbound customer service tool. For example, when used in tandem with an IVR system, TTS solutions can provide personalized information to callers, such as greeting a customer by name, providing account information, confirming details about the order, payment, or appointment, and more. Furthermore, by tapping into the extensive range of languages, accents, and a wide variety female and male voices offered by TTS software, companies can provide an experience that matches their customer's profiles or help promote an image for their brand. 

TTS in Automotive Industry

Text to speech solutions help make connected and autonomous cars safer and sound truly unique, begetting an on-road revolution. They can be used in in-car conversational systems for navigational prompts and map data, infotainment systems to read aloud information about the car, such as fuel level or tire pressure, and swap music and voice assistants to place phone calls, read messages, and more.

TTS in Healthcare

In the healthcare industry, text to speech solutions can be used to read aloud patient information, instructions for taking medication, and provide information to doctors and other medical professionals about upcoming appointments, scheduling calls, and more. 

Why text to speech matters for businesses?

It's an exciting time to stake your claim in the realm of speech synthesis. There are a number of key industries where the text to speech technology has already succeeded in making a dent. Here are a few different ways in which businesses can harness the power of text to speech and save money and time:

Enhances customer experience

Any business can leverage TTS to alleviate human agent workload and offer customized conversational customer support. By integrating these solutions with IVR systems, companies can automate customer interactions, facilitate smart and personalized self-service by providing voice responses in the customer's language and remove communication barriers. Furthermore, organizations can also use TTS to make AI-enabled routine calls to inform customers about promotional offers, payment reminders, and much more. That said, by using text to speech in voice-activated chatbots, businesses can provide customers, especially the visually impaired, with a more immersive experience, thereby enriching the customer experience.

Global market penetration

Text to speech solutions offer synthetic voices in multiple languages enabling businesses to create content in several different languages and reach customers across different countries worldwide. Organizations can build trust with customers by creating voiceovers for ads, commercials, product demos, explainer videos, and PowerPoint presentations, among other content pieces in regional dialects and native languages. 

Increases Web Presence

That said, with the help of TTS solutions, businesses can provide an audio version of their content in addition to a written version, enabling more accessibility to a broader audience, who can choose whether to read or listen to it based on their preferences. This increases the brand's web presence. Moreover, using text to speech, brands can create a familiar, recognizable and unique voice across all their voice channels, making it easy for customers to identify the brand the second they hear it. This way, the brand shows up everywhere and improves its web presence.

Who else can benefit from text to speech?

Today’s online text to speech systems can generate speech that is almost indistinguishable from a human voice, making them a valuable tool for a wide range of applications, from improving accessibility for people with disabilities to providing convenient and efficient ways to communicate information.

Here is a list of everybody that can benefit immensely from using best text to speech softwares for their content and voiceover needs:

Educators

Many educators struggle to enhance the value of their curriculum while simplifying their workloads. This is where realistic text to speech technology plays a key role. Firstly, it improves accessibility for students with disabilities. Screen readers and other tools which are speech enabled can make learning an equal opportunity and enjoyable experience for those with learning and physical disabilities. Secondly, it helps teach comprehension in an effective manner. Text to speech software offers an easy way for students to listen to how words are spoken in their natural structure and following the same is easier through audio playback.

TTS software also enhances engagement and makes learning interesting for students. For example, using natural sounding text to speech voices, teachers can create engaging presentations and elearning modules that capture student’s attention. 

Marketers

In marketing specifically, text to speech technology can help improve data collection, facilitate comprehensive customer profiling, and better data analysis. Online text to speech tools offer an easy way for businesses to reach a broader audience and create customized user experiences.

For instance, marketing teams can create and deliver videos to prospective clients to establish a connection and brief them on queries and complicated products or services in the language and accent the customer is comfortable with. Furthermore, AI voices enable marketing teams to create crisp, high quality professional-sounding voiceovers in a few simple steps without hiring voice actors or requiring any professional recording studios.

Authors

Text to speech generators offer authors numerous advantages. One, it serves as an editing aid and helps storytellers proof read their novels and manuscripts to identify grammatical errors and other mistakes in their drafts before publishing. Listening to their stories being read aloud also allows authors to gauge the response to their work on other people. Authors can also use realistic voice generators to convert their books into audiobooks and podcasts and broaden the reach of their work. 

Podcasters

From interviews about true crime to politics and science, there are all sorts of popular podcast formats today. And, regardless of how good your podcast topic is, it won’t matter if the host doesn’t have a good voice. That said, not everyone can have that best podcast voice like an old-school radio anchor or a news presenter. This is where text to speech platforms come in. You don’t have to record scripted intros, prologues, or epilogues, an AI narrator can do it for you. Through text to speech software, you can automatically create the narrative and voiceover for your podcast in the language and tone you want in a matter of minutes by simply uploading the script to the platform. 

Animators

Creating good voice overs for your animated explainer videos or product demos or games typically meant investing a lot of money on recording equipment and hiring professional voice actors. Not anymore. With AI text to speech platforms, you can add natural sounding voices to your animated video to make them more engaging and captivating. In fact, with text to speech software, you can give each character in your animated video or game, a unique voice. 

Customer Support Executives

Integrating realistic text to voice software with an IVR system enables customer service agents to concentrate more on complex customers rather than common queries. TTS-enabled IVR systems are capable of gathering information and providing responses to customers as necessary in a way that sounds just like an actual customer service agent.

Furthermore, TTS systems also eliminate the need for IVR businesses to schedule voiceover retakes months in advance. With TTS systems, businesses can render a new voiceover in minutes creating thousands of iterations within a few clicks.

Students

Text to speech is a game-changer for students of all ages and educational levels. By converting written text into spoken words, students can enhance their learning experience and comprehension. Text to speech technology can read content out aloud, making it easier for students to absorb information while multitasking. It is particularly useful for students with dyslexia, ADHD, or other learning disabilities as it provides them with an alternative way to consume educational content. Furthermore, the tool can also be used to add narrations to presentations, explainer videos, how-to videos, and more.

Trainers

Be it corporate trainers, fitness trainers, or lifestyle instructors, text to speech can be used to create engaging and accessible learning materials. For example, fitness trainers can convert written content into audio-based workout routines and personalized exercise plans. This helps to increase engagement levels and knowledge retention among the audience.

Similarly, corporate trainers can also use TTS to create presentations on employee policies and other organizational practices. It makes the coursework highly engaging and improves employee performance at many levels. Additionally, using audio course materials is a great way to respect the staff with disabilities and give everyone equal access to training.  

Content Creators 

Content creators, including social media users, bloggers, writers, influencers, and authors, can leverage text to speech to enhance their productivity and reach a broader audience.

This technology enables content creators to convert their written articles, scripts, blog posts, or eBooks into high-quality audio files quickly in multiple languages instead of manually recording the voiceover.

Consequently, it opens up new avenues for content consumption. This allows readers to listen to the content while performing other tasks or when reading isn’t feasible, such as during commutes or workouts. 

Video Producers 

Video creators can easily add voiceovers or narration to their videos, eliminating the need for hiring voice actors or spending hours recording audio. This not only saves time and resources but also ensures consistent and professional-sounding voiceovers.

Murf: The Ultimate Text to Speech Software

If you are looking for a text to speech generator that can create stunning voiceovers for your tutorials, presentations, or videos, Murf is the one to go for. 

Murf can generate human-like, realistic, and natural-sounding voices. Its pièce de résistance is that Murf can do it in over 120+ unique voices in 20+ languages. 

This text aloud reader also allows you to tweak the pitch of the voice, add pauses or emphasis, and alter the speed of the output to get the output just the way you want it. 

And the best part? Murf is extremely easy to use. Just type or paste in your script, choose your preferred voice in the language you want, and hit play. Murf will do the rest. 

Create Engaging Content with Murf's AI Voices

Murf text to audio converter can be used in a number of scenarios to elevate the quality of your overall content. Let's look at a few use cases where Murf can help and why it’s the best text to speech reader out there:

E-learning Videos

Murf’s free text to speech reader can help you create e-learning videos in multiple languages that will make your content accessible to a global audience. You can also increase the engagement of your e-learning video by adding emotions and expressions to your content. 

Presentations

Murf’s AI voices can add a touch of professionalism to your presentations to help drive home those key points. You can use Murf to narrate your slides, explain your concepts, or tell the story of your brand in the exact tone and style you envisioned. 

Audiobooks

You can also use this free text to speech reader to make your audiobooks sound as if they its been narrated by an actual person.

With Murf, you can also mix and match different voices for the various characters in the audiobook to take your storytelling up a few notches. 

Sales and Marketing Videos

Murf can also enhance your sales and marketing videos with persuasive and professional voiceovers. You can use these videos to showcase your products, services, or offers and tailor them in multiple languages to advertise to a potentially global audience. 

Product Demos

Finally, Murf can help you create informative and engaging product demo videos that showcase your product’s features and benefits in the best possible light.

Key Features of Murf Text to Speech

Apart from enabling users to enhance the quality of their voiceover content with compelling, nuanced, and natural sounding text to speech voices,  Murf offers an intuitive voice user interface and the ability to customize and control the voiceover output with features like pitch, speed, emphasis, pause, pronunciation and more.

✅ Natural Sounding Speech
Murf’s voices are 100 percent natural sounding and can imitate the subtleties of human voice. This results in better pronunciation of words, as well as capturing nuances like reading speed and intonation to create more human-like speech. 
✅ Pitch
Increase or decrease the pitch of your voiceover by toggling the ‘Pitch’ tab on the Studio.
✅ Emphasis‍
Emphasize the important points in your script by moving the nodes on the emphasis graph to different levels. Users can add upto five emphasis nodes in a sentence.
✅ Speed‍
Murf also lets you change the speed of narration by either increasing or decreasing the speed value on the studio according to your content requirements. 
✅ Pronunciation‍
Murf lets users change the pronunciation of words in its script in two ways: You can either type in an alternative spelling or Murf supports what is known as smart suggestions, which present a range of IPAs and alternative spelling for commonly used words. Users can simply double-click on a word that requires correction in pronunciation and choose the right IPA or alternative spelling from the list offered. 
✅ Text to Speech API
Murf text to speech API serve as an easy way to make text to speech even more efficient, streamlined, and resource-light. Integrate Murf text to speech API seamlessly with your system and become an effective voice over generating machine—no complex coding required.

More than Just a Text to Speech Software

Tired of hearing monotonous, robotic-sounding voiceovers? Not anymore. With Murf, enhance the quality of your content with compelling, nuanced, and natural sounding text to speech that replicate the subtleties of human voice.

Fine-tune your voiceover narration and add more character to an AI voice with features such as Emphasis, Pronunciation, Speed, and more! From inviting and conversational to excited and loud to empathetic and authoritative, we have AI voices that span different intonations and emotions.

Murf AI text to speech (TTS) supports Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, and Turkish. Some of these languages also support multiple accents. For example, our English language AI voices support British, Australian, American, and Indian accents. Our Spanish AI voices support Mexican and Spain accents.

The TTS online software also offers users the ability to add background audio or music to their content. Murf studio, in fact, comes with a curated selection of royalty-free music in their gallery that the user can choose from to add some music to their video. You can also upload your own audio files or even import from external sources like YouTube, Vimeo, and other video websites.

Murf's text to sound has a voice changer feature that lets you upload your existing recording and revamp it with professional AI voice in a single click. You can change your voice to an AI voice in three simple steps: transcribe the audio, choose an AI voice, and regenerate the audio in a new voice. It's as easy as pie.

Summing It Up

Murf is a powerful text to speech reader that can help you create engaging and professional voiceovers for your videos, presentations, and so much more. 

To put it in short, with Murf, you can:

  • Save a ton of money that would have otherwise been spent on voice actors and renting out studio spaces.
  • Widen your reach to a global audience with its support for over 120+ unique voices in over 20+ languages.
  • Make your content accessible to anyone with visual or specific cognitive disabilities. 

So, what are you waiting for? Sign up for a free trial of Murf today!