Top 8 Text-to-Speech And Voice Cloning Tools (2025)

Text-to-speech technology has evolved dramatically from robotic-sounding voices to remarkably natural speech. Modern AI voice platforms offer realistic voices, voice cloning capabilities, and even the ability to generate completely new voices. Here’s a comprehensive look at the best text-to-speech tools available in 2025.

Eleven Labs

Eleven Labs currently represents the state of the art in text-to-speech software. Their platform offers exceptionally high-quality, natural-sounding voices, as well as additional features like the ability to clone your voice, and even create entirely new voices and sound effects with a simple text prompt.

Additionally, users can access a marketplace to share and discover user-created voices, their voice agents can handle customer service tasks, answer calls, and engage in natural conversations, they have a dubbing studio that can automatically translate videos into other languages, and even sophisticated voice changers. 

While Eleven Labs is expensive compared to other platforms, they do offer a free plan allowing you to generate 10 minutes of audio every month.

Play.ht

Play.ht offers a significantly more affordable alternative to Eleven Labs. While the voice quality is slightly lower and it doesn’t have quite as many features, they still offer the basics like voice cloning, voice agents, as well as unlimited generation on their premium plan.

VOICEVOX

VOICEVOX is an easy to use open-source Japanese text-to-speech platform available in multiple versions. The main version includes character models, while VOICEVOX’s Nemo version offers more standard text-to-speech voices without characters. The platform also provides a VOCALOID-style singing capability for creating music.

The instructions are in Japanese but you can take a screenshot of them and upload it to ChatGPT to translate them for you.

Kokoro

Kokoro is an open-source text-to-speech model for English voices that offers quality comparable to proprietary models like Play.ht while being significantly faster and completely free. You can try it out here.

W-okada

W-okada is a powerful open-source voice-changing software. Although the software is in Japanese, you can find many YouTube tutorials on how to set it up.

F5-TTS

F5-TTS is another decent quality open-source text-to-speech model. It currently only supports English and Chinese languages for now.

You can find the source code on GitHub or try it directly on Hugging Face.

Coqui-AI TTSv2

Coqui-AI’s text-to-speech model remains a popular choice despite the company’s closure last year. You can test the model on Hugging Face to experience its capabilities.

NotebookLM

NotebookLM is a platform that allows users to upload various sources including documents and YouTube videos, then ask questions about the content or generate helpful summaries. 

The reason why I’m mentioning it in this article is that NotebookLM also includes a free podcast feature which can create a two-person conversation based on your uploaded sources, with high-quality voice output suitable for podcast platforms like Spotify.

The Future of AI Voice

Both commercial and open-source text-to-speech models are advancing rapidly. Improvements in emotional expression, natural pausing, and voice consistency are making these voices increasingly lifelike.

While Eleven Labs is currently clear in the lead in terms of producing realistic sounding voices, other proprietary and even open-source models are likely to catch up eventually.