Recording a voice-over yourself means finding a quiet room, a decent microphone and a dozen takes. Hiring a voice actor is slow and expensive. AI text to speech gives you finished audio in about a minute, with natural pauses and intonation.
Choose from three models. Eleven v4 by ElevenLabs sounds the most lifelike and works in 70+ languages, and you set emotions with tags right in the text: [whispers], [laughs], [excited]. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS by Google costs almost half as much, and you can describe the delivery in words: "calm and warm, like an audiobook" or "like a news anchor". MiniMax Speech 2.8 HD handles long texts up to 10,000 characters and lets you pick an emotion — happy, sad, surprised — and the speaking speed.
Each model has its own set of male and female voices, from velvety to broadcaster-style, 34 in total. Preview any voice before you generate. The price depends on text length and model and is shown before you run: Eleven v4 costs 10 credits per 1,000 characters. If generation fails, you are not charged.