How to Denoise in After Effects – Audio and Video Noise Removal

I was filming with my mobile phone, and the light was low, and it happened so that I had to shake the phone a little because I was in movement. I return home, thinking that the shots were not so bad, look at the new footage on the bigger screen than my phone would have provided, and – no! I am totally wrong! This footage has some kind of little dots all over it, the whole shot looks sort of pixelated. I understand that the circumstances were not so good for shooting, but how come the video is actually this bad? How to get rid of this annoying dot-like overlay, that hinders me from seeing some details and makes my eyes exhausted? Is there a way to make this better at all?

Yeah, this is something called noise, and something called grain can also be in play. And is there a way to solve the problem? –Yes! Technology is getting so good from day to day that editing programs offer the ways to not be bothered because of this problem.

But noise is a word that not necessarily evoke the image of the visual side, rather, for the broader society, it is connected to the audio. A room, filled with some people hanging out and chatting, air conditioner that creates some sound, an opened window from where the chirping of the birds are coming… Anyway, I am still trying to concentrate, to make my voice recording, and then edit the video. Even in this case, I think everything is going pretty well, and the scenario is so alike: I record the whole text I have to follow, then try to listen to it in the speakers or in the headphones, and – SOS again! These noises I mentioned, are filling up my recording, where only my words should be played. Now, I don’t like to cut the parts of my whole recording one by one, and relentlessly, like a butcher, because I am just trying to create a good listener, or viewer experience, and slicing my piece will only make things work. There should be another way!

And yes, there also is. I can solve this problem using some editing software as well. It might even take me only a while and I will have a great voice recording to include in my content. So, my choice, in this case, would be Adobe After Effects – you will say, wow, why so serious? (because this is a very powerful and sophisticated program!) but the answer is – because we can, and because it gives us many opportunity.

So, as you may have noticed already, in this article we will be touching upon audio and video denoising in Adobe After Effects! Let’s get started and solve those little problems we have in our everyday life and work!

How to denoise a video in Adobe After Effects

So, denoising in image and video production is used as a technique to take footage from grainy to crystal-clear, and this is exactly our target. But when can we say that the video noise reduction went well? This method achieves its goal If it suppresses noise effectively in uniform regions; preserves edges and other characteristics, such as fine details and textures; and provides a visually natural experience.

Primarily, Adobe After Effects is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application. If you are skilled, you are almost invincible in this software, meaning that you can do almost everything that sparks your imagination. So, if that is the sophistication of the program, why can it not be so that it can help us get rid of the unwanted noise and grain on the scene? There is no answer, because of course, it can.

Even though sometimes this kind of software requires you to download and install and then finally use some external resources, such as plugins, there is a way to do what we are going to, without any help from outside of the program.

First of all, I suppose you have some video you want to edit and make better. Bringing that clip into the program would be the first step of our little adventure. And see the menu where it says Effect? – you need to click on it. Then it gets pretty, meaning very… meaning extremely straightforward – you will find it written – Noise and Grain. Of course, you will need to choose it, and then see the Remove Grain option, to which you are going to stick.

Then, you will need to move your attention to the left side of the screen, where Effects Control will open. By default, you are able to see viewing mode, where Preview can be changed to Final Output, which is exactly what you are going to do.

This will be the video with Preview checked:

And this is the look of the same frame from the video whenever Final Output is turned on:

Yes, it’s true – we have done it already! This is actually this fast and easy in Adobe After Effects – no more noise, no more grain! Anyway, if you want to see the whole process on the video, you can check it here !

How to denoise an audio in Adobe After Effects

When it comes to audio noise, as we have mentioned already, it is possible to master the recording in After Effects in terms of the voice as well, but in reality, After Effects requires another Adobe program called Audition. Let us say that you have a video with audio attached, and you are working in AE, but in order to remove the background noise, you will need to open Audition. Here’s how it’s done:

First, in the sequence, you will need to click twice on the video clip, which will open audio graphics below.

Then, go to Edit in the Navbar, and choose Edit in Adobe Audition.

This program will open and show you more detailed graphic image of the voice recording. Now, you will find the space of time in your recording when you have a somewhat damaged audio and you will select the beginning and the end of it with the mouse. Keep in mind that in case you need to take a look at the video when your audio is played, you can see a little window showing the scene on the left and bottom of your screen.

Once you have the selection and are determined with it, you right click on the selection and find Capture Noise Print. Then, you will click on the selection again and find Select all, which will cover the whole audio. That’s when you go to the Navbar again and find Effects -> Noise Reduction / Restoration -> Noise Reduction (process). This will open the graphics again, where you can reduce the noise – you will see the percentage scale where you can modify the noise.

After changing it a little, you will click on the Apply and be able to visually see how the flow has changed and lowered.

So, when you deselect the selection and play the recording, you will notice that from now on the words are hearable, but some background noise is not there anymore! In order to export, please go to the File and Export, choose your preferred settings and you are ready to go!

Bonus tip: how to remove audio noise in video with Wondershare Filmora

When it comes to audio noise removal, it’s also good to have some alternatives, and you might not even have Adobe After Effects installed on your computer, because there exist a lot of programs easier to use. One of them is Wondershare Filmora, which can play a major role in background noise removal, in a simple way. For this to play out, you will need to pursue the following steps:

To bring your video clip in the program, drag and drop it into the timeline. Right-clicking on the video and hitting Detach Audio will enable you to separate audio and video from each other and work on them individually.

Click twice on the audio track, which will make sure you can see the editing panel and find Remove background noise option there – it can remove the noise right away.

And, that’s it – hard to believe it’s so simple!

So, in this article, you followed us through the steps of how to denoise in Adobe After Effects – first, we touched upon video noise reduction, and then, background noise removal, for which we had to open the audio in Adobe Audition from After Effects. Last but not least, we took a look at how another magnificent software, Wondershare Filmora can help us in doing the same task! Armed with different tools and knowledge, now you can go for it and make your videos and audios more appealing for everyone!

Then, you will need to move your attention to the left side of the screen, where Effects Control will open. By default, you are able to see viewing mode, where Preview can be changed to Final Output, which is exactly what you are going to do.

This will be the video with Preview checked:

And this is the look of the same frame from the video whenever Final Output is turned on:

Yes, it’s true – we have done it already! This is actually this fast and easy in Adobe After Effects – no more noise, no more grain! Anyway, if you want to see the whole process on the video, you can check it here !

How to denoise an audio in Adobe After Effects

When it comes to audio noise, as we have mentioned already, it is possible to master the recording in After Effects in terms of the voice as well, but in reality, After Effects requires another Adobe program called Audition. Let us say that you have a video with audio attached, and you are working in AE, but in order to remove the background noise, you will need to open Audition. Here’s how it’s done:

First, in the sequence, you will need to click twice on the video clip, which will open audio graphics below.

Then, go to Edit in the Navbar, and choose Edit in Adobe Audition.

This program will open and show you more detailed graphic image of the voice recording. Now, you will find the space of time in your recording when you have a somewhat damaged audio and you will select the beginning and the end of it with the mouse. Keep in mind that in case you need to take a look at the video when your audio is played, you can see a little window showing the scene on the left and bottom of your screen.

Once you have the selection and are determined with it, you right click on the selection and find Capture Noise Print. Then, you will click on the selection again and find Select all, which will cover the whole audio. That’s when you go to the Navbar again and find Effects -> Noise Reduction / Restoration -> Noise Reduction (process). This will open the graphics again, where you can reduce the noise – you will see the percentage scale where you can modify the noise.

After changing it a little, you will click on the Apply and be able to visually see how the flow has changed and lowered.

So, when you deselect the selection and play the recording, you will notice that from now on the words are hearable, but some background noise is not there anymore! In order to export, please go to the File and Export, choose your preferred settings and you are ready to go!

Bonus tip: how to remove audio noise in video with Wondershare Filmora

When it comes to audio noise removal, it’s also good to have some alternatives, and you might not even have Adobe After Effects installed on your computer, because there exist a lot of programs easier to use. One of them is Wondershare Filmora, which can play a major role in background noise removal, in a simple way. For this to play out, you will need to pursue the following steps:

To bring your video clip in the program, drag and drop it into the timeline. Right-clicking on the video and hitting Detach Audio will enable you to separate audio and video from each other and work on them individually.

Click twice on the audio track, which will make sure you can see the editing panel and find Remove background noise option there – it can remove the noise right away.

And, that’s it – hard to believe it’s so simple!

So, in this article, you followed us through the steps of how to denoise in Adobe After Effects – first, we touched upon video noise reduction, and then, background noise removal, for which we had to open the audio in Adobe Audition from After Effects. Last but not least, we took a look at how another magnificent software, Wondershare Filmora can help us in doing the same task! Armed with different tools and knowledge, now you can go for it and make your videos and audios more appealing for everyone!

Then, you will need to move your attention to the left side of the screen, where Effects Control will open. By default, you are able to see viewing mode, where Preview can be changed to Final Output, which is exactly what you are going to do.

This will be the video with Preview checked:

And this is the look of the same frame from the video whenever Final Output is turned on:

Yes, it’s true – we have done it already! This is actually this fast and easy in Adobe After Effects – no more noise, no more grain! Anyway, if you want to see the whole process on the video, you can check it here !

How to denoise an audio in Adobe After Effects

When it comes to audio noise, as we have mentioned already, it is possible to master the recording in After Effects in terms of the voice as well, but in reality, After Effects requires another Adobe program called Audition. Let us say that you have a video with audio attached, and you are working in AE, but in order to remove the background noise, you will need to open Audition. Here’s how it’s done:

First, in the sequence, you will need to click twice on the video clip, which will open audio graphics below.

Then, go to Edit in the Navbar, and choose Edit in Adobe Audition.

This program will open and show you more detailed graphic image of the voice recording. Now, you will find the space of time in your recording when you have a somewhat damaged audio and you will select the beginning and the end of it with the mouse. Keep in mind that in case you need to take a look at the video when your audio is played, you can see a little window showing the scene on the left and bottom of your screen.

Once you have the selection and are determined with it, you right click on the selection and find Capture Noise Print. Then, you will click on the selection again and find Select all, which will cover the whole audio. That’s when you go to the Navbar again and find Effects -> Noise Reduction / Restoration -> Noise Reduction (process). This will open the graphics again, where you can reduce the noise – you will see the percentage scale where you can modify the noise.

After changing it a little, you will click on the Apply and be able to visually see how the flow has changed and lowered.

So, when you deselect the selection and play the recording, you will notice that from now on the words are hearable, but some background noise is not there anymore! In order to export, please go to the File and Export, choose your preferred settings and you are ready to go!

Bonus tip: how to remove audio noise in video with Wondershare Filmora

When it comes to audio noise removal, it’s also good to have some alternatives, and you might not even have Adobe After Effects installed on your computer, because there exist a lot of programs easier to use. One of them is Wondershare Filmora, which can play a major role in background noise removal, in a simple way. For this to play out, you will need to pursue the following steps:

To bring your video clip in the program, drag and drop it into the timeline. Right-clicking on the video and hitting Detach Audio will enable you to separate audio and video from each other and work on them individually.

Click twice on the audio track, which will make sure you can see the editing panel and find Remove background noise option there – it can remove the noise right away.

And, that’s it – hard to believe it’s so simple!

So, in this article, you followed us through the steps of how to denoise in Adobe After Effects – first, we touched upon video noise reduction, and then, background noise removal, for which we had to open the audio in Adobe Audition from After Effects. Last but not least, we took a look at how another magnificent software, Wondershare Filmora can help us in doing the same task! Armed with different tools and knowledge, now you can go for it and make your videos and audios more appealing for everyone!

Then, you will need to move your attention to the left side of the screen, where Effects Control will open. By default, you are able to see viewing mode, where Preview can be changed to Final Output, which is exactly what you are going to do.

This will be the video with Preview checked:

And this is the look of the same frame from the video whenever Final Output is turned on:

Yes, it’s true – we have done it already! This is actually this fast and easy in Adobe After Effects – no more noise, no more grain! Anyway, if you want to see the whole process on the video, you can check it here !

How to denoise an audio in Adobe After Effects

When it comes to audio noise, as we have mentioned already, it is possible to master the recording in After Effects in terms of the voice as well, but in reality, After Effects requires another Adobe program called Audition. Let us say that you have a video with audio attached, and you are working in AE, but in order to remove the background noise, you will need to open Audition. Here’s how it’s done:

First, in the sequence, you will need to click twice on the video clip, which will open audio graphics below.

Then, go to Edit in the Navbar, and choose Edit in Adobe Audition.

This program will open and show you more detailed graphic image of the voice recording. Now, you will find the space of time in your recording when you have a somewhat damaged audio and you will select the beginning and the end of it with the mouse. Keep in mind that in case you need to take a look at the video when your audio is played, you can see a little window showing the scene on the left and bottom of your screen.

Once you have the selection and are determined with it, you right click on the selection and find Capture Noise Print. Then, you will click on the selection again and find Select all, which will cover the whole audio. That’s when you go to the Navbar again and find Effects -> Noise Reduction / Restoration -> Noise Reduction (process). This will open the graphics again, where you can reduce the noise – you will see the percentage scale where you can modify the noise.

After changing it a little, you will click on the Apply and be able to visually see how the flow has changed and lowered.

So, when you deselect the selection and play the recording, you will notice that from now on the words are hearable, but some background noise is not there anymore! In order to export, please go to the File and Export, choose your preferred settings and you are ready to go!

Bonus tip: how to remove audio noise in video with Wondershare Filmora

When it comes to audio noise removal, it’s also good to have some alternatives, and you might not even have Adobe After Effects installed on your computer, because there exist a lot of programs easier to use. One of them is Wondershare Filmora, which can play a major role in background noise removal, in a simple way. For this to play out, you will need to pursue the following steps:

To bring your video clip in the program, drag and drop it into the timeline. Right-clicking on the video and hitting Detach Audio will enable you to separate audio and video from each other and work on them individually.

Click twice on the audio track, which will make sure you can see the editing panel and find Remove background noise option there – it can remove the noise right away.

And, that’s it – hard to believe it’s so simple!

So, in this article, you followed us through the steps of how to denoise in Adobe After Effects – first, we touched upon video noise reduction, and then, background noise removal, for which we had to open the audio in Adobe Audition from After Effects. Last but not least, we took a look at how another magnificent software, Wondershare Filmora can help us in doing the same task! Armed with different tools and knowledge, now you can go for it and make your videos and audios more appealing for everyone!

Cropping Videos in VLC [Step by Step]

Want to crop your videos but don’t know how to start?

A video editor needs to know how he can crop his videos. There is a way to do this using the VLC that is installed in your computer. This guide will teach you a simple way to get what you want. This might appear as complicated at first sight but it will be shown to you in a digestible way. An alternative way would be to use Wondershare Filmora. You will also be guided on how to use this software to crop your videos. Don’t worry and just take it one step at a time.

How to Crop a Video using VLC

Have you ever heard of the VLC media player? If not, you can browse through it online and install it on your computer. Aside from watching content, you can also crop videos with it. Cropping is a way to remove spaces that you would not want to be included on your video.

Find the software on your computer and don’t be overwhelmed by the interface.

Then click the Media and select Open File to choose the video that you want to crop. You should prepare the videos that you want to be cropped and rename them to avoid confusion.

Click the Tools on the menu and select the Effects and Filters.

After that, click on the Video Effects and under that select Crop. Doing this, will open the cropping editor.

You need to enter specific pixels on the left, right, top and bottom. This will depend on your preferences. If it is your first time and you don’t know the exact pixels then just input what you think would be enough.

After entering your preferred pixels, you can preview it. If you would like to adjust then just simply repeat entering the specific pixels.

You decided to save the cropped video. Find the Tools menu and select Preferences.

Find the Show settings and click All. In the search bar type Croppadd then save your previous preferred pixel settings. Lastly, click Save.

In the Media menu select the Convert/Save. You can drag and drop the cropped video to the File box.

You can select your file format and codecs by clicking Convert/Save.

Find the Edit Selected Profile and click the Video Codec. Then under the Filters tab, select the Video cropping filter. Finally, click Save.

In the Destination file select where you want it to be saved.

Then click Start.

Congratulations on getting here! You finally cropped your video using the VLC media player.

Although there are disadvantages to using this as your cropping tool. Like for example you want the real-time preview of what you’ve changed in your video. This would be a turn off for some that want their outputs to be shown to them immediately. Aside from this, there is a chance that you will forget one step to make and thus, the whole process would need to start over from scratch. Lastly, is the freedom to batch crop multiple videos. This is especially important for those that need to have many clips in one video. A user might lose the continuity of the story within his video.

While one of its strong suits is the affordability of the software. It is completely free and has no additional charges that may surprise you in the future. Finally, your output won’t have watermarks that could destroy the aesthetics of your video.

What are your experiences with using it as a cropping tool? What would you recommend to improve it? It is up to you the user if you want to continue using this as your partner in removing the excess in your videos.

An Easier Way to Crop a Video using Wondershare Filmora

Have you heard of an editing tool called Wondershare Filmora Video Editor ? What are your first impressions of this software? You can download this for free by going to the official site.

Wondershare Filmora is a useful editor that can help you produce the content that you want. It is packed with beneficial tools that you can learn to apply. If it is already installed on your computer then proceed to opening it.

Free Download

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Free Download

For macOS 10.14 or later

Prepare your videos that you need to crop. You can drag and drop your video or click the Import.

Select the video clip that you want to crop. Then, click the Crop tool and choose if you want the Crop or Pan & Zoom.

You can also right click the video clip .Under the Video tab you can select the Crop and Zoom or Crop to Fit then adjust to your preferred ratio.

One of the advantages of Filmora is you can preview what you have cropped immediately. This will greatly help you if you’re not sure what kind of crop that you want. If you’ve thought that you made a mistake then a simple Undo button could fix it. In short, you’re not going through the gruesome process of starting all over again. You can also do the batch cropping of multiple videos helping you ensure the smoothness of flow in the final output.

Although the Filmora is not free, there is a trial that you can use to test it to check if this video editor would meet your needs. It has tools that a beginner to expert video editor could use to produce high quality videos that would make the audience think that it was life from the movies.

The Bottom Line

The journey of exploring different options would help you make the decision. Both VLC media player and Wondershare Filmora have their great features which would aid the user to crop his videos in an efficient way. What are your thoughts on each of them? As an individual you have varied needs that a video tool should meet.

After reading this, you’ve had a clearer view of what these video softwares offers. Did this guide help you decide which would fit your needs as a video editor? What are your suggestions for improvement?

You could share with us the tips and tricks you know on cropping videos using these applications.

A video editor needs to know how he can crop his videos. There is a way to do this using the VLC that is installed in your computer. This guide will teach you a simple way to get what you want. This might appear as complicated at first sight but it will be shown to you in a digestible way. An alternative way would be to use Wondershare Filmora. You will also be guided on how to use this software to crop your videos. Don’t worry and just take it one step at a time.

How to Crop a Video using VLC

Have you ever heard of the VLC media player? If not, you can browse through it online and install it on your computer. Aside from watching content, you can also crop videos with it. Cropping is a way to remove spaces that you would not want to be included on your video.

Find the software on your computer and don’t be overwhelmed by the interface.

Then click the Media and select Open File to choose the video that you want to crop. You should prepare the videos that you want to be cropped and rename them to avoid confusion.

Click the Tools on the menu and select the Effects and Filters.

After that, click on the Video Effects and under that select Crop. Doing this, will open the cropping editor.

You need to enter specific pixels on the left, right, top and bottom. This will depend on your preferences. If it is your first time and you don’t know the exact pixels then just input what you think would be enough.

After entering your preferred pixels, you can preview it. If you would like to adjust then just simply repeat entering the specific pixels.

You decided to save the cropped video. Find the Tools menu and select Preferences.

Find the Show settings and click All. In the search bar type Croppadd then save your previous preferred pixel settings. Lastly, click Save.

In the Media menu select the Convert/Save. You can drag and drop the cropped video to the File box.

You can select your file format and codecs by clicking Convert/Save.

Find the Edit Selected Profile and click the Video Codec. Then under the Filters tab, select the Video cropping filter. Finally, click Save.

In the Destination file select where you want it to be saved.

Then click Start.

Congratulations on getting here! You finally cropped your video using the VLC media player.

Although there are disadvantages to using this as your cropping tool. Like for example you want the real-time preview of what you’ve changed in your video. This would be a turn off for some that want their outputs to be shown to them immediately. Aside from this, there is a chance that you will forget one step to make and thus, the whole process would need to start over from scratch. Lastly, is the freedom to batch crop multiple videos. This is especially important for those that need to have many clips in one video. A user might lose the continuity of the story within his video.

While one of its strong suits is the affordability of the software. It is completely free and has no additional charges that may surprise you in the future. Finally, your output won’t have watermarks that could destroy the aesthetics of your video.

What are your experiences with using it as a cropping tool? What would you recommend to improve it? It is up to you the user if you want to continue using this as your partner in removing the excess in your videos.

An Easier Way to Crop a Video using Wondershare Filmora

Have you heard of an editing tool called Wondershare Filmora Video Editor ? What are your first impressions of this software? You can download this for free by going to the official site.

Wondershare Filmora is a useful editor that can help you produce the content that you want. It is packed with beneficial tools that you can learn to apply. If it is already installed on your computer then proceed to opening it.

Free Download

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Free Download

For macOS 10.14 or later

Prepare your videos that you need to crop. You can drag and drop your video or click the Import.

Select the video clip that you want to crop. Then, click the Crop tool and choose if you want the Crop or Pan & Zoom.

You can also right click the video clip .Under the Video tab you can select the Crop and Zoom or Crop to Fit then adjust to your preferred ratio.

One of the advantages of Filmora is you can preview what you have cropped immediately. This will greatly help you if you’re not sure what kind of crop that you want. If you’ve thought that you made a mistake then a simple Undo button could fix it. In short, you’re not going through the gruesome process of starting all over again. You can also do the batch cropping of multiple videos helping you ensure the smoothness of flow in the final output.

Although the Filmora is not free, there is a trial that you can use to test it to check if this video editor would meet your needs. It has tools that a beginner to expert video editor could use to produce high quality videos that would make the audience think that it was life from the movies.

The Bottom Line

The journey of exploring different options would help you make the decision. Both VLC media player and Wondershare Filmora have their great features which would aid the user to crop his videos in an efficient way. What are your thoughts on each of them? As an individual you have varied needs that a video tool should meet.

After reading this, you’ve had a clearer view of what these video softwares offers. Did this guide help you decide which would fit your needs as a video editor? What are your suggestions for improvement?

You could share with us the tips and tricks you know on cropping videos using these applications.

A video editor needs to know how he can crop his videos. There is a way to do this using the VLC that is installed in your computer. This guide will teach you a simple way to get what you want. This might appear as complicated at first sight but it will be shown to you in a digestible way. An alternative way would be to use Wondershare Filmora. You will also be guided on how to use this software to crop your videos. Don’t worry and just take it one step at a time.

How to Crop a Video using VLC

Have you ever heard of the VLC media player? If not, you can browse through it online and install it on your computer. Aside from watching content, you can also crop videos with it. Cropping is a way to remove spaces that you would not want to be included on your video.

Find the software on your computer and don’t be overwhelmed by the interface.

Then click the Media and select Open File to choose the video that you want to crop. You should prepare the videos that you want to be cropped and rename them to avoid confusion.

Click the Tools on the menu and select the Effects and Filters.

After that, click on the Video Effects and under that select Crop. Doing this, will open the cropping editor.

You need to enter specific pixels on the left, right, top and bottom. This will depend on your preferences. If it is your first time and you don’t know the exact pixels then just input what you think would be enough.

After entering your preferred pixels, you can preview it. If you would like to adjust then just simply repeat entering the specific pixels.

You decided to save the cropped video. Find the Tools menu and select Preferences.

Find the Show settings and click All. In the search bar type Croppadd then save your previous preferred pixel settings. Lastly, click Save.

In the Media menu select the Convert/Save. You can drag and drop the cropped video to the File box.

You can select your file format and codecs by clicking Convert/Save.

Find the Edit Selected Profile and click the Video Codec. Then under the Filters tab, select the Video cropping filter. Finally, click Save.

In the Destination file select where you want it to be saved.

Then click Start.

Congratulations on getting here! You finally cropped your video using the VLC media player.

Although there are disadvantages to using this as your cropping tool. Like for example you want the real-time preview of what you’ve changed in your video. This would be a turn off for some that want their outputs to be shown to them immediately. Aside from this, there is a chance that you will forget one step to make and thus, the whole process would need to start over from scratch. Lastly, is the freedom to batch crop multiple videos. This is especially important for those that need to have many clips in one video. A user might lose the continuity of the story within his video.

While one of its strong suits is the affordability of the software. It is completely free and has no additional charges that may surprise you in the future. Finally, your output won’t have watermarks that could destroy the aesthetics of your video.

What are your experiences with using it as a cropping tool? What would you recommend to improve it? It is up to you the user if you want to continue using this as your partner in removing the excess in your videos.

An Easier Way to Crop a Video using Wondershare Filmora

Have you heard of an editing tool called Wondershare Filmora Video Editor ? What are your first impressions of this software? You can download this for free by going to the official site.

Wondershare Filmora is a useful editor that can help you produce the content that you want. It is packed with beneficial tools that you can learn to apply. If it is already installed on your computer then proceed to opening it.

Free Download

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Free Download

For macOS 10.14 or later

Prepare your videos that you need to crop. You can drag and drop your video or click the Import.

Select the video clip that you want to crop. Then, click the Crop tool and choose if you want the Crop or Pan & Zoom.

You can also right click the video clip .Under the Video tab you can select the Crop and Zoom or Crop to Fit then adjust to your preferred ratio.

One of the advantages of Filmora is you can preview what you have cropped immediately. This will greatly help you if you’re not sure what kind of crop that you want. If you’ve thought that you made a mistake then a simple Undo button could fix it. In short, you’re not going through the gruesome process of starting all over again. You can also do the batch cropping of multiple videos helping you ensure the smoothness of flow in the final output.

Although the Filmora is not free, there is a trial that you can use to test it to check if this video editor would meet your needs. It has tools that a beginner to expert video editor could use to produce high quality videos that would make the audience think that it was life from the movies.

The Bottom Line

The journey of exploring different options would help you make the decision. Both VLC media player and Wondershare Filmora have their great features which would aid the user to crop his videos in an efficient way. What are your thoughts on each of them? As an individual you have varied needs that a video tool should meet.

After reading this, you’ve had a clearer view of what these video softwares offers. Did this guide help you decide which would fit your needs as a video editor? What are your suggestions for improvement?

You could share with us the tips and tricks you know on cropping videos using these applications.

A video editor needs to know how he can crop his videos. There is a way to do this using the VLC that is installed in your computer. This guide will teach you a simple way to get what you want. This might appear as complicated at first sight but it will be shown to you in a digestible way. An alternative way would be to use Wondershare Filmora. You will also be guided on how to use this software to crop your videos. Don’t worry and just take it one step at a time.

How to Crop a Video using VLC

Have you ever heard of the VLC media player? If not, you can browse through it online and install it on your computer. Aside from watching content, you can also crop videos with it. Cropping is a way to remove spaces that you would not want to be included on your video.

Find the software on your computer and don’t be overwhelmed by the interface.

Then click the Media and select Open File to choose the video that you want to crop. You should prepare the videos that you want to be cropped and rename them to avoid confusion.

Click the Tools on the menu and select the Effects and Filters.

After that, click on the Video Effects and under that select Crop. Doing this, will open the cropping editor.

You need to enter specific pixels on the left, right, top and bottom. This will depend on your preferences. If it is your first time and you don’t know the exact pixels then just input what you think would be enough.

After entering your preferred pixels, you can preview it. If you would like to adjust then just simply repeat entering the specific pixels.

You decided to save the cropped video. Find the Tools menu and select Preferences.

Find the Show settings and click All. In the search bar type Croppadd then save your previous preferred pixel settings. Lastly, click Save.

In the Media menu select the Convert/Save. You can drag and drop the cropped video to the File box.

You can select your file format and codecs by clicking Convert/Save.

Find the Edit Selected Profile and click the Video Codec. Then under the Filters tab, select the Video cropping filter. Finally, click Save.

In the Destination file select where you want it to be saved.

Then click Start.

Congratulations on getting here! You finally cropped your video using the VLC media player.

Although there are disadvantages to using this as your cropping tool. Like for example you want the real-time preview of what you’ve changed in your video. This would be a turn off for some that want their outputs to be shown to them immediately. Aside from this, there is a chance that you will forget one step to make and thus, the whole process would need to start over from scratch. Lastly, is the freedom to batch crop multiple videos. This is especially important for those that need to have many clips in one video. A user might lose the continuity of the story within his video.

While one of its strong suits is the affordability of the software. It is completely free and has no additional charges that may surprise you in the future. Finally, your output won’t have watermarks that could destroy the aesthetics of your video.

What are your experiences with using it as a cropping tool? What would you recommend to improve it? It is up to you the user if you want to continue using this as your partner in removing the excess in your videos.

An Easier Way to Crop a Video using Wondershare Filmora

Have you heard of an editing tool called Wondershare Filmora Video Editor ? What are your first impressions of this software? You can download this for free by going to the official site.

Wondershare Filmora is a useful editor that can help you produce the content that you want. It is packed with beneficial tools that you can learn to apply. If it is already installed on your computer then proceed to opening it.

Free Download

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Free Download

For macOS 10.14 or later

Prepare your videos that you need to crop. You can drag and drop your video or click the Import.

Select the video clip that you want to crop. Then, click the Crop tool and choose if you want the Crop or Pan & Zoom.

You can also right click the video clip .Under the Video tab you can select the Crop and Zoom or Crop to Fit then adjust to your preferred ratio.

One of the advantages of Filmora is you can preview what you have cropped immediately. This will greatly help you if you’re not sure what kind of crop that you want. If you’ve thought that you made a mistake then a simple Undo button could fix it. In short, you’re not going through the gruesome process of starting all over again. You can also do the batch cropping of multiple videos helping you ensure the smoothness of flow in the final output.

Although the Filmora is not free, there is a trial that you can use to test it to check if this video editor would meet your needs. It has tools that a beginner to expert video editor could use to produce high quality videos that would make the audience think that it was life from the movies.

The Bottom Line

The journey of exploring different options would help you make the decision. Both VLC media player and Wondershare Filmora have their great features which would aid the user to crop his videos in an efficient way. What are your thoughts on each of them? As an individual you have varied needs that a video tool should meet.

After reading this, you’ve had a clearer view of what these video softwares offers. Did this guide help you decide which would fit your needs as a video editor? What are your suggestions for improvement?

You could share with us the tips and tricks you know on cropping videos using these applications.

Little Known Ways of Adding Emojis to Photos on iPhone & Android [2023

Little Known Ways of Adding Emojis to Photos on iPhone & Android

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Emojis are catchy graphic elements that can add life to your photos, videos and allied artworks within a wink. Be here to know about the most exciting how-tos!

In this article

01 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone](#Part 1)

02 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android](#Part 2)

03 [Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer](#Part 3)

Part 1 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone

Emojis have managed to secure enough significance in our social and professional lives across social media platforms in the current time. Be it a fun-filled conversation with friends and family on a chat service program, or a high end and professionally sound business strategy, these mini caricature pieces of graphic art can add the much needed highlight to almost every aspect of your digital communication concerns.

Now that you are aware of the utility of working with emojis to make your digital contents, let us take a dive into some of the best ways and means to make your iPhone images come alive in the following section:

01Emoji Picture Editor- Add Emojis to Your Photos

If you like to imbibe the images on your iPhone media gallery with a hoard of funny and cool emojis, this one is a perfect app to address the concern. The tool’s library houses the latest collection of emoji categories to be in line with a diversity of photo styles, themes and backgrounds. You can take your pick from the huge inventory of over 1500 different emojis to level up your photos.

Talking about the app interface and usage controls, you are granted full liberty to add emojis to your emojis, while changing their positions through a finger drag, or scale and rotate them by expanding, pinching and twisting your fingers. The app additionally allows you to send bigger emoji stickers on chats and conversations.

02Insta Emoji Photo Editor

When looking for an interesting and reliable application to set straight the concern of how to put emojis on pictures, the Insta Emoji Photo Editor is an affordable pick. Loaded with an enormous and updated emoji library, the app presents before you over 3200 fascinating emoji options to select from and add to your images.

The inclusion process is intuitively simple, with you just having to upload the desired images to the app’s working interface and choose from your most favorite emoji elements to make the stills come alive with added fun and spark. The app houses an interesting ’Emoji Paint’ feature for the extensively creative ones to let them create catchy drawings with the coolest emojis.

03Emoji My Face

Moving ahead in the list comes the aforesaid app, which you can conveniently rely on to get through the photo edit emoji task in less than a few seconds. What’s unique about the utility is its feature that lets you add emoji stickers on the faces of your image elements. Working with the app, you can transform the skinned appearances of your friends and family into hilarious emoji faces.

While the app permits you to pick any number of preferences from its latest and updated emoji collection, you can additionally, save and share your emoji centered image edits across a diversity of media sharing platforms and chat service programs.

04Emoji Background Photo Maker

While there are hoards of IT alternatives to add emojis to pictures, the following utility caters to the concern in a slightly different style, ahead of just picking and pasting emojis to still captures. Working with the tool, you can experiment with changing the customary and fundamental image backgrounds into funny and appealing emoji centered themes. You are allowed to either work with a desired image from your iPhone’s media gallery, or take a fresh shot from your device’s camera, followed by uploading the same to the app’s editing interface.

Focusing on the tool’s expanse of usage features, you get tom work with a straightforward interface, and select from a wide variety of expressive and thematic emoji backgrounds. You can further, preview and save the edited images in HD quality, and share the same with friends and family across social media handles.

05Funny Photo Editor With Emoji Stickers Camera

This one is an innovative image editing tool that lets you create funny image transformations with classic emoji stickers, while addressing the query of how to add emojis to pictures. If your peer group consists of crazy creators who are selfie freaks, try hands at uplifting your live camera shots with this application by adding the funkiest emojis and sharing them across the regular communication platforms.

The app’s default camera feature lets you capture a straight forward image and convert the same into a hilarious edit with the latest range of free emoji stickers, caricature smileys and lots more. You can additionally beautify the edits with choosing from a decent range of emoji skin tones to suit the image background.

06Instamoji- Emoji Photo Editor

If you have been searching for an affordable solution to walk through the concern of , how to add emoji to photo on your iPhone, try working with the Instamoji application to highlight your customary images with classic emoji stickers and elements within the blink of an eye. The app welcomes you with a clean and intuitive interface to work upon, and is completely free to use.

Talking about the utility’s emoji centered image editing features, you are permitted to select from a decent collection of vibrant, funny and cool emojis, assorted under a diversity of categories to complement your images with, while exporting them across your digital communication accounts with utmost ease. The app promises you of the finest quality edited image output.

Part 2 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android

Emojis are best known to spark up graphic artworks with an element of fun and entertainment. While the introduction of social media and digital communication utilities have brought emojis to the fingertips of modern day smartphone users, the IT market never lags behind at putting the latest transformations regarding emoji usage at your disposal.

Discussing along the line, let us talk about some interesting applications that address the concern of how to add an emoji to a photo using an Android device in what follows next:

01Add Emoji Stickers- Pics Editor and Photo Maker

This one is a smart photo editing tool that you can choose to customize the otherwise ordinary images on the local media gallery of your Android smartphone. The app greets you with an extensive range of updated emoji alternatives to suit your most specific editing requirements for complementing your elementary photos with the perfect feel and emotion.

The emojis work to add the missing fun to your social media posts with image edits funny enough to make your peers roll over with laughter. Not just smiley faces, the app delivers to you a categorized set of emojis that are a perfect fit to any graphic theme. Some of the most preferred ones include Nature, Travel, Food & Drinks, and many more. So why wait? Just get the free utility and begin to edit and share!

02Emoji Face Sticker

If you are creativity freak and love to experiment with your editing skills to put emoji on picture, try hands at working with this free image editor utility to add a fun element to your photos and give a laughter dose to your friends and family on social media. The app caters to transform your uploaded images faces to the cutest emoji look alike ever.

If that’s not enough, you can work with the app to change your smartphone’s regular camera into an emoji camera app that works to create the best caricature emoji montages from your snapped selfies. Navigating through the latte’s editing library, you will get to choose from among the craziest and coolest emoji stickers to create emoji photos out of normal stills. All in all, the app allows you to put forward your emotions in a relatively funnier way.

03Emoji Photo Editor

Are you bored of looking at those customary color backgrounds behind your images? Consider sparking them up with the cutest and most expressive emoji backgrounds. As you pick the app to edit your images, the latter grants you a complete access to its free emoji library that houses a decent collection of over 50 different emoji backgrounds to select from. A few of the most popular ones comprise of the flower and heart crown stickers, dog face camera among others.

Editing images within the app is seamless enough to last for a few seconds. You can use the created emoji background edits in a series of ways, like, preferring a local save or going for an image export to your favorite social media handle. Another cool way to show off your creativity can be making a device screen wallpaper of the emoji background image.

04Auto Face Stamp- Cover Face With Emoji

Looking forward to use an SNS services for media sharing purposes, but bothered about privacy concerns? While it is a common practice to share pictures via SNS and allied public platforms, most of us are often worried about keeping our faces hidden. Under normal circumstances, the face masking task is something you would ideally want to escape; the aforesaid app caters to the same in a funny and enjoyable manner.

Working with the utility, you can mask your image faces with over 100 different types of emoji stickers. The app aids you further in the task through its accurate face recognition ability that takes into consideration the smallest of faces with utmost precision. All you need to do is, select a desired emoji sticker and tap on the face you wish to mask with the same.

You can further, choose to directly export the masked images to media sharing handles right from the app’s editing workspace. The app is available to you absolutely free of cost and greets its users with a responsive working interface.

05Emoji Background Photo Editor

If the ordinary thematic backgrounds of your images do not suit you any longer, try working with this application to transmute the same into vibrant and expressive emoji alternatives. The aforesaid photo editing utility caters to make your images stand out of the crowd with beautiful emoji landscapes that render creative image edits of a matchless class, while maintaining a high-definition output image quality.

Extending the dimension of features to a longer stretch, the app grants you the liberty to adjust the position and transparency of the added emojis, set emoji frames and customize the emoji centered backgrounds with stunning effects and filters. As you finish with the editing process, the app lets you share your creations directly to a preferred social media platform, while also keeping them safe in your device’s local media gallery.

06Face Emoji Photo Effect

Reaching the end of the list, here comes the Face Emoji Photo Effect application that is all set to upgrade the level of your regular images with its classic and beautiful emoji backgrounds and stickers. The app’s editing library houses a diverse range of latest and elusive emojis to highlight your otherwise normal captures. The app additionally facilitates you with an expanded set of image editing features and effects to turn them into a graphic masterpiece.

The app welcomes you with a clean and responsive interface that makes the emoji inclusion process a quick and fun activity. All you need to do is, pick up an image from your locally saved alternatives and upload them to the app’s working interface, followed by browsing the latter’s emoji library to select a cohesive emoji background to complement the same.

You can further, download the premium emoji packs through a minimal payment to enhance the app’s library if the preset options do not match your requirements. The inbuilt emoji choices are however, free to work with.

Part 3 Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer

All of us are familiar to and love using emojis everywhere, right from commenting on regular social media posts and chat service conversations, to creating professionally sound and strategic, business centered company presentations. While the most diverse use of these graphic utilities is reported on mobile devices, you may sometimes land across an instance that demands working with emojis on a computer.

Moving ahead with our discussion to address the aforesaid concern, let us talk about some of the prominent software and online solutions to set aside the issue of how to put emojis on photos while working on a computer in the upcoming section of this article:

01Kapwing

Entering into the domain of online image editing tools, the Kapwing website easily lands among the highly preferred choices. To address the concern of adding emojis to pictures on your PC or desktop systems, this one is an affordable tool to rely on. Talking of the underlying reasons behind the app’s high rated user preference, the latter allows you to access its huge inventory of emoji stickers, distributed across a heap of categories to choose from.

Next in the line is the tool’s spic and span editing process that lets you add and customize emojis on the uploaded images with a series of effects and filters in a matter of counted seconds. You can either pick and import images from your system, or work with the app’s in house emoji templates to edit the photos. As you are done with uploading images and adding emojis, proceed to place them at the desired position within the image.

The app allows you to add multiple emoji layers to the images by facilitating the creation of duplicate copies of your favorite emojis. Once you are done with the editing process, you are free to export your creation across media handles, or save them locally to your system.

02Editor.pho.to

If you are a newbie to the world of graphic editing and want to experiment with your creative skills to sort out the need of how to add an emoji to a picture, prefer landing on this free online website to work on your images. Considering the fact that not everyone around you is a tech savvy, the aforesaid online photo editing tool is designed to house the simplest of interfaces ever. The tool is available to you absolutely free of cost, without any unfair hidden purchases.

Ahead of the basic customization features, the tool grants you the freedom to expand your graphic skills on a wider canvas with presenting before you a plethora of emoji faces, stickers and backgrounds to complement the uploaded images with. Once you have added the emoji, the tool lets you work on the latter’s position and transparency adjustments, create emoji layers and overlays and save the edits to your system in a visibly high output quality.

03Add Emoji to Photo

When looking for dependable solutions to work towards the task of how to put an emoji on a photo, you can conveniently trust the aforementioned online tool to create classic emoji photo edits from the customary still alternatives son your computer. This one is a free to use image editor facility that allows you to decorate your otherwise unnoticed images with an extensive range of preset and custom emojis to make them expressive and speak out your emotions.

The tool caters to render a high definition edited image output within seconds through the simplest of customization processes. You just need to upload a desired image from your system to the tool’s working interface, followed by picking a suitable emoji from the tool’s editing library to add it to the image. If however, the available options don’t seem to address your specific requirements, you can proceed to create custom emojis of your own within the tool.

You can also create multiple emoji layers to add to the uploaded image and make adjustments to their transparency and position within the photo. As you finish the editing process, the tool grants you the liberty to download the customized image to your system in either of the PNG or JPG file formats.

04Image Online

Another entry into the list of solutions to answer the query of how to put emojis on a photo, the Image Online tool promises you of a quality constrained image editing process to complement the basic still captures in the local media gallery of your computer with the latest collection of emoji elements. Welcoming you with a decent interface, the tool caters to sort out your emoji centered picture editing requirements within a blink’s time.

To add emoji to image with this tool, you just need to upload the selected photo to the latter’s workspace, followed by selecting a preferred emoji from the editing library, or create a custom emoji of your own, to put on the image. You can customize the emoji settings in terms of position, size and transparency, and download the edits to your device in JPG and PNG image formats.

05Canva

Last in the list is the Canva graphic editing tool which you can conveniently work with to add an emoji to a picture. Having a slightly different image editing process in comparison to its online counterparts, the utility requires you to sign up to its working interface to begin editing your photos. To start with, you need to select a preset image template or pick customized dimensions to upload the desired image.

To add emojis to your picture, you will have to download the latter’s application by navigating to and tapping the ‘More’ icon, followed by choosing the ‘Emoji’ option from the drop down menu that appears next. Once the ‘Emoji’ tab shows up in the tool’s main interface, proceed to upload your image and pick a suitable emoji from the list to add to the uploaded image. You can further, add layers of emojis to the picture, while resizing and adjusting the skin tones of the same.

Part 4 Adding Emoji to Photo Q&A

● What is the total number of emoji characters till date?

As of September 2021, a total of 3,633 emojis are known to have been introduced so far. Talking of the latest emoji package, there comes the Emoji 14.0, adding 112 emoji variations to the existing count. The aforesaid is a cumulative figure, including the skin tone, gender and flag sequences.

● What are the different types of emoji categories?

During the current time, the emoji characterization is known to house 8 different categories, namely, Flags, Symbols, Objects, Travel, Activity, Food & Drink, Animals & Nature and Smileys & People.

● What is the difference between Emoji and Emoticons?

Emoticons are specifically, graphic interpretations of the various human emotions that come with a keyboard command combination. Emojis on the other hand, are a standard set of various characters, often having a different artwork, but a universal meaning.

● Is it possible to self-create custom emojis?

As of now, having self-created variants of emojis is not possible. If at all, you become successful in design a character that resembles an emoji, you can use it as an image at the most. In an attempt to share it as an emoji, you will end up sending text combinations.

● What is the best software alternative to add emojis to pictures?

When looking for an affordable software solution for catering to the concern of how to add emojis to a photo, you can go for picking the Wondershare Filmora Video Editor graphic editing program, whose editing library literally houses the largest and the latest collection of emoji categories and varieties for sparking up your images with the best possible customized appearance.

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For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

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● Ending Thoughts →

● Adding emojis to pictures has landed among the latest and most preferred graphic editing trends of current times.

● When beginning to address the concern of how do you add emojis to pictures, the IT market puts a diversity of software and online solutions before you.

● If you are confused about making the best choice, you can pick the Wondershare Filmora graphic editor program without having to think twice.

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Emojis are catchy graphic elements that can add life to your photos, videos and allied artworks within a wink. Be here to know about the most exciting how-tos!

In this article

01 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone](#Part 1)

02 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android](#Part 2)

03 [Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer](#Part 3)

Part 1 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone

Emojis have managed to secure enough significance in our social and professional lives across social media platforms in the current time. Be it a fun-filled conversation with friends and family on a chat service program, or a high end and professionally sound business strategy, these mini caricature pieces of graphic art can add the much needed highlight to almost every aspect of your digital communication concerns.

Now that you are aware of the utility of working with emojis to make your digital contents, let us take a dive into some of the best ways and means to make your iPhone images come alive in the following section:

01Emoji Picture Editor- Add Emojis to Your Photos

If you like to imbibe the images on your iPhone media gallery with a hoard of funny and cool emojis, this one is a perfect app to address the concern. The tool’s library houses the latest collection of emoji categories to be in line with a diversity of photo styles, themes and backgrounds. You can take your pick from the huge inventory of over 1500 different emojis to level up your photos.

Talking about the app interface and usage controls, you are granted full liberty to add emojis to your emojis, while changing their positions through a finger drag, or scale and rotate them by expanding, pinching and twisting your fingers. The app additionally allows you to send bigger emoji stickers on chats and conversations.

02Insta Emoji Photo Editor

When looking for an interesting and reliable application to set straight the concern of how to put emojis on pictures, the Insta Emoji Photo Editor is an affordable pick. Loaded with an enormous and updated emoji library, the app presents before you over 3200 fascinating emoji options to select from and add to your images.

The inclusion process is intuitively simple, with you just having to upload the desired images to the app’s working interface and choose from your most favorite emoji elements to make the stills come alive with added fun and spark. The app houses an interesting ’Emoji Paint’ feature for the extensively creative ones to let them create catchy drawings with the coolest emojis.

03Emoji My Face

Moving ahead in the list comes the aforesaid app, which you can conveniently rely on to get through the photo edit emoji task in less than a few seconds. What’s unique about the utility is its feature that lets you add emoji stickers on the faces of your image elements. Working with the app, you can transform the skinned appearances of your friends and family into hilarious emoji faces.

While the app permits you to pick any number of preferences from its latest and updated emoji collection, you can additionally, save and share your emoji centered image edits across a diversity of media sharing platforms and chat service programs.

04Emoji Background Photo Maker

While there are hoards of IT alternatives to add emojis to pictures, the following utility caters to the concern in a slightly different style, ahead of just picking and pasting emojis to still captures. Working with the tool, you can experiment with changing the customary and fundamental image backgrounds into funny and appealing emoji centered themes. You are allowed to either work with a desired image from your iPhone’s media gallery, or take a fresh shot from your device’s camera, followed by uploading the same to the app’s editing interface.

Focusing on the tool’s expanse of usage features, you get tom work with a straightforward interface, and select from a wide variety of expressive and thematic emoji backgrounds. You can further, preview and save the edited images in HD quality, and share the same with friends and family across social media handles.

05Funny Photo Editor With Emoji Stickers Camera

This one is an innovative image editing tool that lets you create funny image transformations with classic emoji stickers, while addressing the query of how to add emojis to pictures. If your peer group consists of crazy creators who are selfie freaks, try hands at uplifting your live camera shots with this application by adding the funkiest emojis and sharing them across the regular communication platforms.

The app’s default camera feature lets you capture a straight forward image and convert the same into a hilarious edit with the latest range of free emoji stickers, caricature smileys and lots more. You can additionally beautify the edits with choosing from a decent range of emoji skin tones to suit the image background.

06Instamoji- Emoji Photo Editor

If you have been searching for an affordable solution to walk through the concern of , how to add emoji to photo on your iPhone, try working with the Instamoji application to highlight your customary images with classic emoji stickers and elements within the blink of an eye. The app welcomes you with a clean and intuitive interface to work upon, and is completely free to use.

Talking about the utility’s emoji centered image editing features, you are permitted to select from a decent collection of vibrant, funny and cool emojis, assorted under a diversity of categories to complement your images with, while exporting them across your digital communication accounts with utmost ease. The app promises you of the finest quality edited image output.

Part 2 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android

Emojis are best known to spark up graphic artworks with an element of fun and entertainment. While the introduction of social media and digital communication utilities have brought emojis to the fingertips of modern day smartphone users, the IT market never lags behind at putting the latest transformations regarding emoji usage at your disposal.

Discussing along the line, let us talk about some interesting applications that address the concern of how to add an emoji to a photo using an Android device in what follows next:

01Add Emoji Stickers- Pics Editor and Photo Maker

This one is a smart photo editing tool that you can choose to customize the otherwise ordinary images on the local media gallery of your Android smartphone. The app greets you with an extensive range of updated emoji alternatives to suit your most specific editing requirements for complementing your elementary photos with the perfect feel and emotion.

The emojis work to add the missing fun to your social media posts with image edits funny enough to make your peers roll over with laughter. Not just smiley faces, the app delivers to you a categorized set of emojis that are a perfect fit to any graphic theme. Some of the most preferred ones include Nature, Travel, Food & Drinks, and many more. So why wait? Just get the free utility and begin to edit and share!

02Emoji Face Sticker

If you are creativity freak and love to experiment with your editing skills to put emoji on picture, try hands at working with this free image editor utility to add a fun element to your photos and give a laughter dose to your friends and family on social media. The app caters to transform your uploaded images faces to the cutest emoji look alike ever.

If that’s not enough, you can work with the app to change your smartphone’s regular camera into an emoji camera app that works to create the best caricature emoji montages from your snapped selfies. Navigating through the latte’s editing library, you will get to choose from among the craziest and coolest emoji stickers to create emoji photos out of normal stills. All in all, the app allows you to put forward your emotions in a relatively funnier way.

03Emoji Photo Editor

Are you bored of looking at those customary color backgrounds behind your images? Consider sparking them up with the cutest and most expressive emoji backgrounds. As you pick the app to edit your images, the latter grants you a complete access to its free emoji library that houses a decent collection of over 50 different emoji backgrounds to select from. A few of the most popular ones comprise of the flower and heart crown stickers, dog face camera among others.

Editing images within the app is seamless enough to last for a few seconds. You can use the created emoji background edits in a series of ways, like, preferring a local save or going for an image export to your favorite social media handle. Another cool way to show off your creativity can be making a device screen wallpaper of the emoji background image.

04Auto Face Stamp- Cover Face With Emoji

Looking forward to use an SNS services for media sharing purposes, but bothered about privacy concerns? While it is a common practice to share pictures via SNS and allied public platforms, most of us are often worried about keeping our faces hidden. Under normal circumstances, the face masking task is something you would ideally want to escape; the aforesaid app caters to the same in a funny and enjoyable manner.

Working with the utility, you can mask your image faces with over 100 different types of emoji stickers. The app aids you further in the task through its accurate face recognition ability that takes into consideration the smallest of faces with utmost precision. All you need to do is, select a desired emoji sticker and tap on the face you wish to mask with the same.

You can further, choose to directly export the masked images to media sharing handles right from the app’s editing workspace. The app is available to you absolutely free of cost and greets its users with a responsive working interface.

05Emoji Background Photo Editor

If the ordinary thematic backgrounds of your images do not suit you any longer, try working with this application to transmute the same into vibrant and expressive emoji alternatives. The aforesaid photo editing utility caters to make your images stand out of the crowd with beautiful emoji landscapes that render creative image edits of a matchless class, while maintaining a high-definition output image quality.

Extending the dimension of features to a longer stretch, the app grants you the liberty to adjust the position and transparency of the added emojis, set emoji frames and customize the emoji centered backgrounds with stunning effects and filters. As you finish with the editing process, the app lets you share your creations directly to a preferred social media platform, while also keeping them safe in your device’s local media gallery.

06Face Emoji Photo Effect

Reaching the end of the list, here comes the Face Emoji Photo Effect application that is all set to upgrade the level of your regular images with its classic and beautiful emoji backgrounds and stickers. The app’s editing library houses a diverse range of latest and elusive emojis to highlight your otherwise normal captures. The app additionally facilitates you with an expanded set of image editing features and effects to turn them into a graphic masterpiece.

The app welcomes you with a clean and responsive interface that makes the emoji inclusion process a quick and fun activity. All you need to do is, pick up an image from your locally saved alternatives and upload them to the app’s working interface, followed by browsing the latter’s emoji library to select a cohesive emoji background to complement the same.

You can further, download the premium emoji packs through a minimal payment to enhance the app’s library if the preset options do not match your requirements. The inbuilt emoji choices are however, free to work with.

Part 3 Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer

All of us are familiar to and love using emojis everywhere, right from commenting on regular social media posts and chat service conversations, to creating professionally sound and strategic, business centered company presentations. While the most diverse use of these graphic utilities is reported on mobile devices, you may sometimes land across an instance that demands working with emojis on a computer.

Moving ahead with our discussion to address the aforesaid concern, let us talk about some of the prominent software and online solutions to set aside the issue of how to put emojis on photos while working on a computer in the upcoming section of this article:

01Kapwing

Entering into the domain of online image editing tools, the Kapwing website easily lands among the highly preferred choices. To address the concern of adding emojis to pictures on your PC or desktop systems, this one is an affordable tool to rely on. Talking of the underlying reasons behind the app’s high rated user preference, the latter allows you to access its huge inventory of emoji stickers, distributed across a heap of categories to choose from.

Next in the line is the tool’s spic and span editing process that lets you add and customize emojis on the uploaded images with a series of effects and filters in a matter of counted seconds. You can either pick and import images from your system, or work with the app’s in house emoji templates to edit the photos. As you are done with uploading images and adding emojis, proceed to place them at the desired position within the image.

The app allows you to add multiple emoji layers to the images by facilitating the creation of duplicate copies of your favorite emojis. Once you are done with the editing process, you are free to export your creation across media handles, or save them locally to your system.

02Editor.pho.to

If you are a newbie to the world of graphic editing and want to experiment with your creative skills to sort out the need of how to add an emoji to a picture, prefer landing on this free online website to work on your images. Considering the fact that not everyone around you is a tech savvy, the aforesaid online photo editing tool is designed to house the simplest of interfaces ever. The tool is available to you absolutely free of cost, without any unfair hidden purchases.

Ahead of the basic customization features, the tool grants you the freedom to expand your graphic skills on a wider canvas with presenting before you a plethora of emoji faces, stickers and backgrounds to complement the uploaded images with. Once you have added the emoji, the tool lets you work on the latter’s position and transparency adjustments, create emoji layers and overlays and save the edits to your system in a visibly high output quality.

03Add Emoji to Photo

When looking for dependable solutions to work towards the task of how to put an emoji on a photo, you can conveniently trust the aforementioned online tool to create classic emoji photo edits from the customary still alternatives son your computer. This one is a free to use image editor facility that allows you to decorate your otherwise unnoticed images with an extensive range of preset and custom emojis to make them expressive and speak out your emotions.

The tool caters to render a high definition edited image output within seconds through the simplest of customization processes. You just need to upload a desired image from your system to the tool’s working interface, followed by picking a suitable emoji from the tool’s editing library to add it to the image. If however, the available options don’t seem to address your specific requirements, you can proceed to create custom emojis of your own within the tool.

You can also create multiple emoji layers to add to the uploaded image and make adjustments to their transparency and position within the photo. As you finish the editing process, the tool grants you the liberty to download the customized image to your system in either of the PNG or JPG file formats.

04Image Online

Another entry into the list of solutions to answer the query of how to put emojis on a photo, the Image Online tool promises you of a quality constrained image editing process to complement the basic still captures in the local media gallery of your computer with the latest collection of emoji elements. Welcoming you with a decent interface, the tool caters to sort out your emoji centered picture editing requirements within a blink’s time.

To add emoji to image with this tool, you just need to upload the selected photo to the latter’s workspace, followed by selecting a preferred emoji from the editing library, or create a custom emoji of your own, to put on the image. You can customize the emoji settings in terms of position, size and transparency, and download the edits to your device in JPG and PNG image formats.

05Canva

Last in the list is the Canva graphic editing tool which you can conveniently work with to add an emoji to a picture. Having a slightly different image editing process in comparison to its online counterparts, the utility requires you to sign up to its working interface to begin editing your photos. To start with, you need to select a preset image template or pick customized dimensions to upload the desired image.

To add emojis to your picture, you will have to download the latter’s application by navigating to and tapping the ‘More’ icon, followed by choosing the ‘Emoji’ option from the drop down menu that appears next. Once the ‘Emoji’ tab shows up in the tool’s main interface, proceed to upload your image and pick a suitable emoji from the list to add to the uploaded image. You can further, add layers of emojis to the picture, while resizing and adjusting the skin tones of the same.

Part 4 Adding Emoji to Photo Q&A

● What is the total number of emoji characters till date?

As of September 2021, a total of 3,633 emojis are known to have been introduced so far. Talking of the latest emoji package, there comes the Emoji 14.0, adding 112 emoji variations to the existing count. The aforesaid is a cumulative figure, including the skin tone, gender and flag sequences.

● What are the different types of emoji categories?

During the current time, the emoji characterization is known to house 8 different categories, namely, Flags, Symbols, Objects, Travel, Activity, Food & Drink, Animals & Nature and Smileys & People.

● What is the difference between Emoji and Emoticons?

Emoticons are specifically, graphic interpretations of the various human emotions that come with a keyboard command combination. Emojis on the other hand, are a standard set of various characters, often having a different artwork, but a universal meaning.

● Is it possible to self-create custom emojis?

As of now, having self-created variants of emojis is not possible. If at all, you become successful in design a character that resembles an emoji, you can use it as an image at the most. In an attempt to share it as an emoji, you will end up sending text combinations.

● What is the best software alternative to add emojis to pictures?

When looking for an affordable software solution for catering to the concern of how to add emojis to a photo, you can go for picking the Wondershare Filmora Video Editor graphic editing program, whose editing library literally houses the largest and the latest collection of emoji categories and varieties for sparking up your images with the best possible customized appearance.

Try It Free

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Try It Free

For macOS 10.12 or later

● Ending Thoughts →

● Adding emojis to pictures has landed among the latest and most preferred graphic editing trends of current times.

● When beginning to address the concern of how do you add emojis to pictures, the IT market puts a diversity of software and online solutions before you.

● If you are confused about making the best choice, you can pick the Wondershare Filmora graphic editor program without having to think twice.

Try It Free Try It Free

Emojis are catchy graphic elements that can add life to your photos, videos and allied artworks within a wink. Be here to know about the most exciting how-tos!

In this article

01 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone](#Part 1)

02 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android](#Part 2)

03 [Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer](#Part 3)

Part 1 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone

Emojis have managed to secure enough significance in our social and professional lives across social media platforms in the current time. Be it a fun-filled conversation with friends and family on a chat service program, or a high end and professionally sound business strategy, these mini caricature pieces of graphic art can add the much needed highlight to almost every aspect of your digital communication concerns.

Now that you are aware of the utility of working with emojis to make your digital contents, let us take a dive into some of the best ways and means to make your iPhone images come alive in the following section:

01Emoji Picture Editor- Add Emojis to Your Photos

If you like to imbibe the images on your iPhone media gallery with a hoard of funny and cool emojis, this one is a perfect app to address the concern. The tool’s library houses the latest collection of emoji categories to be in line with a diversity of photo styles, themes and backgrounds. You can take your pick from the huge inventory of over 1500 different emojis to level up your photos.

Talking about the app interface and usage controls, you are granted full liberty to add emojis to your emojis, while changing their positions through a finger drag, or scale and rotate them by expanding, pinching and twisting your fingers. The app additionally allows you to send bigger emoji stickers on chats and conversations.

02Insta Emoji Photo Editor

When looking for an interesting and reliable application to set straight the concern of how to put emojis on pictures, the Insta Emoji Photo Editor is an affordable pick. Loaded with an enormous and updated emoji library, the app presents before you over 3200 fascinating emoji options to select from and add to your images.

The inclusion process is intuitively simple, with you just having to upload the desired images to the app’s working interface and choose from your most favorite emoji elements to make the stills come alive with added fun and spark. The app houses an interesting ’Emoji Paint’ feature for the extensively creative ones to let them create catchy drawings with the coolest emojis.

03Emoji My Face

Moving ahead in the list comes the aforesaid app, which you can conveniently rely on to get through the photo edit emoji task in less than a few seconds. What’s unique about the utility is its feature that lets you add emoji stickers on the faces of your image elements. Working with the app, you can transform the skinned appearances of your friends and family into hilarious emoji faces.

While the app permits you to pick any number of preferences from its latest and updated emoji collection, you can additionally, save and share your emoji centered image edits across a diversity of media sharing platforms and chat service programs.

04Emoji Background Photo Maker

While there are hoards of IT alternatives to add emojis to pictures, the following utility caters to the concern in a slightly different style, ahead of just picking and pasting emojis to still captures. Working with the tool, you can experiment with changing the customary and fundamental image backgrounds into funny and appealing emoji centered themes. You are allowed to either work with a desired image from your iPhone’s media gallery, or take a fresh shot from your device’s camera, followed by uploading the same to the app’s editing interface.

Focusing on the tool’s expanse of usage features, you get tom work with a straightforward interface, and select from a wide variety of expressive and thematic emoji backgrounds. You can further, preview and save the edited images in HD quality, and share the same with friends and family across social media handles.

05Funny Photo Editor With Emoji Stickers Camera

This one is an innovative image editing tool that lets you create funny image transformations with classic emoji stickers, while addressing the query of how to add emojis to pictures. If your peer group consists of crazy creators who are selfie freaks, try hands at uplifting your live camera shots with this application by adding the funkiest emojis and sharing them across the regular communication platforms.

The app’s default camera feature lets you capture a straight forward image and convert the same into a hilarious edit with the latest range of free emoji stickers, caricature smileys and lots more. You can additionally beautify the edits with choosing from a decent range of emoji skin tones to suit the image background.

06Instamoji- Emoji Photo Editor

If you have been searching for an affordable solution to walk through the concern of , how to add emoji to photo on your iPhone, try working with the Instamoji application to highlight your customary images with classic emoji stickers and elements within the blink of an eye. The app welcomes you with a clean and intuitive interface to work upon, and is completely free to use.

Talking about the utility’s emoji centered image editing features, you are permitted to select from a decent collection of vibrant, funny and cool emojis, assorted under a diversity of categories to complement your images with, while exporting them across your digital communication accounts with utmost ease. The app promises you of the finest quality edited image output.

Part 2 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android

Emojis are best known to spark up graphic artworks with an element of fun and entertainment. While the introduction of social media and digital communication utilities have brought emojis to the fingertips of modern day smartphone users, the IT market never lags behind at putting the latest transformations regarding emoji usage at your disposal.

Discussing along the line, let us talk about some interesting applications that address the concern of how to add an emoji to a photo using an Android device in what follows next:

01Add Emoji Stickers- Pics Editor and Photo Maker

This one is a smart photo editing tool that you can choose to customize the otherwise ordinary images on the local media gallery of your Android smartphone. The app greets you with an extensive range of updated emoji alternatives to suit your most specific editing requirements for complementing your elementary photos with the perfect feel and emotion.

The emojis work to add the missing fun to your social media posts with image edits funny enough to make your peers roll over with laughter. Not just smiley faces, the app delivers to you a categorized set of emojis that are a perfect fit to any graphic theme. Some of the most preferred ones include Nature, Travel, Food & Drinks, and many more. So why wait? Just get the free utility and begin to edit and share!

02Emoji Face Sticker

If you are creativity freak and love to experiment with your editing skills to put emoji on picture, try hands at working with this free image editor utility to add a fun element to your photos and give a laughter dose to your friends and family on social media. The app caters to transform your uploaded images faces to the cutest emoji look alike ever.

If that’s not enough, you can work with the app to change your smartphone’s regular camera into an emoji camera app that works to create the best caricature emoji montages from your snapped selfies. Navigating through the latte’s editing library, you will get to choose from among the craziest and coolest emoji stickers to create emoji photos out of normal stills. All in all, the app allows you to put forward your emotions in a relatively funnier way.

03Emoji Photo Editor

Are you bored of looking at those customary color backgrounds behind your images? Consider sparking them up with the cutest and most expressive emoji backgrounds. As you pick the app to edit your images, the latter grants you a complete access to its free emoji library that houses a decent collection of over 50 different emoji backgrounds to select from. A few of the most popular ones comprise of the flower and heart crown stickers, dog face camera among others.

Editing images within the app is seamless enough to last for a few seconds. You can use the created emoji background edits in a series of ways, like, preferring a local save or going for an image export to your favorite social media handle. Another cool way to show off your creativity can be making a device screen wallpaper of the emoji background image.

04Auto Face Stamp- Cover Face With Emoji

Looking forward to use an SNS services for media sharing purposes, but bothered about privacy concerns? While it is a common practice to share pictures via SNS and allied public platforms, most of us are often worried about keeping our faces hidden. Under normal circumstances, the face masking task is something you would ideally want to escape; the aforesaid app caters to the same in a funny and enjoyable manner.

Working with the utility, you can mask your image faces with over 100 different types of emoji stickers. The app aids you further in the task through its accurate face recognition ability that takes into consideration the smallest of faces with utmost precision. All you need to do is, select a desired emoji sticker and tap on the face you wish to mask with the same.

You can further, choose to directly export the masked images to media sharing handles right from the app’s editing workspace. The app is available to you absolutely free of cost and greets its users with a responsive working interface.

05Emoji Background Photo Editor

If the ordinary thematic backgrounds of your images do not suit you any longer, try working with this application to transmute the same into vibrant and expressive emoji alternatives. The aforesaid photo editing utility caters to make your images stand out of the crowd with beautiful emoji landscapes that render creative image edits of a matchless class, while maintaining a high-definition output image quality.

Extending the dimension of features to a longer stretch, the app grants you the liberty to adjust the position and transparency of the added emojis, set emoji frames and customize the emoji centered backgrounds with stunning effects and filters. As you finish with the editing process, the app lets you share your creations directly to a preferred social media platform, while also keeping them safe in your device’s local media gallery.

06Face Emoji Photo Effect

Reaching the end of the list, here comes the Face Emoji Photo Effect application that is all set to upgrade the level of your regular images with its classic and beautiful emoji backgrounds and stickers. The app’s editing library houses a diverse range of latest and elusive emojis to highlight your otherwise normal captures. The app additionally facilitates you with an expanded set of image editing features and effects to turn them into a graphic masterpiece.

The app welcomes you with a clean and responsive interface that makes the emoji inclusion process a quick and fun activity. All you need to do is, pick up an image from your locally saved alternatives and upload them to the app’s working interface, followed by browsing the latter’s emoji library to select a cohesive emoji background to complement the same.

You can further, download the premium emoji packs through a minimal payment to enhance the app’s library if the preset options do not match your requirements. The inbuilt emoji choices are however, free to work with.

Part 3 Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer

All of us are familiar to and love using emojis everywhere, right from commenting on regular social media posts and chat service conversations, to creating professionally sound and strategic, business centered company presentations. While the most diverse use of these graphic utilities is reported on mobile devices, you may sometimes land across an instance that demands working with emojis on a computer.

Moving ahead with our discussion to address the aforesaid concern, let us talk about some of the prominent software and online solutions to set aside the issue of how to put emojis on photos while working on a computer in the upcoming section of this article:

01Kapwing

Entering into the domain of online image editing tools, the Kapwing website easily lands among the highly preferred choices. To address the concern of adding emojis to pictures on your PC or desktop systems, this one is an affordable tool to rely on. Talking of the underlying reasons behind the app’s high rated user preference, the latter allows you to access its huge inventory of emoji stickers, distributed across a heap of categories to choose from.

Next in the line is the tool’s spic and span editing process that lets you add and customize emojis on the uploaded images with a series of effects and filters in a matter of counted seconds. You can either pick and import images from your system, or work with the app’s in house emoji templates to edit the photos. As you are done with uploading images and adding emojis, proceed to place them at the desired position within the image.

The app allows you to add multiple emoji layers to the images by facilitating the creation of duplicate copies of your favorite emojis. Once you are done with the editing process, you are free to export your creation across media handles, or save them locally to your system.

02Editor.pho.to

If you are a newbie to the world of graphic editing and want to experiment with your creative skills to sort out the need of how to add an emoji to a picture, prefer landing on this free online website to work on your images. Considering the fact that not everyone around you is a tech savvy, the aforesaid online photo editing tool is designed to house the simplest of interfaces ever. The tool is available to you absolutely free of cost, without any unfair hidden purchases.

Ahead of the basic customization features, the tool grants you the freedom to expand your graphic skills on a wider canvas with presenting before you a plethora of emoji faces, stickers and backgrounds to complement the uploaded images with. Once you have added the emoji, the tool lets you work on the latter’s position and transparency adjustments, create emoji layers and overlays and save the edits to your system in a visibly high output quality.

03Add Emoji to Photo

When looking for dependable solutions to work towards the task of how to put an emoji on a photo, you can conveniently trust the aforementioned online tool to create classic emoji photo edits from the customary still alternatives son your computer. This one is a free to use image editor facility that allows you to decorate your otherwise unnoticed images with an extensive range of preset and custom emojis to make them expressive and speak out your emotions.

The tool caters to render a high definition edited image output within seconds through the simplest of customization processes. You just need to upload a desired image from your system to the tool’s working interface, followed by picking a suitable emoji from the tool’s editing library to add it to the image. If however, the available options don’t seem to address your specific requirements, you can proceed to create custom emojis of your own within the tool.

You can also create multiple emoji layers to add to the uploaded image and make adjustments to their transparency and position within the photo. As you finish the editing process, the tool grants you the liberty to download the customized image to your system in either of the PNG or JPG file formats.

04Image Online

Another entry into the list of solutions to answer the query of how to put emojis on a photo, the Image Online tool promises you of a quality constrained image editing process to complement the basic still captures in the local media gallery of your computer with the latest collection of emoji elements. Welcoming you with a decent interface, the tool caters to sort out your emoji centered picture editing requirements within a blink’s time.

To add emoji to image with this tool, you just need to upload the selected photo to the latter’s workspace, followed by selecting a preferred emoji from the editing library, or create a custom emoji of your own, to put on the image. You can customize the emoji settings in terms of position, size and transparency, and download the edits to your device in JPG and PNG image formats.

05Canva

Last in the list is the Canva graphic editing tool which you can conveniently work with to add an emoji to a picture. Having a slightly different image editing process in comparison to its online counterparts, the utility requires you to sign up to its working interface to begin editing your photos. To start with, you need to select a preset image template or pick customized dimensions to upload the desired image.

To add emojis to your picture, you will have to download the latter’s application by navigating to and tapping the ‘More’ icon, followed by choosing the ‘Emoji’ option from the drop down menu that appears next. Once the ‘Emoji’ tab shows up in the tool’s main interface, proceed to upload your image and pick a suitable emoji from the list to add to the uploaded image. You can further, add layers of emojis to the picture, while resizing and adjusting the skin tones of the same.

Part 4 Adding Emoji to Photo Q&A

● What is the total number of emoji characters till date?

As of September 2021, a total of 3,633 emojis are known to have been introduced so far. Talking of the latest emoji package, there comes the Emoji 14.0, adding 112 emoji variations to the existing count. The aforesaid is a cumulative figure, including the skin tone, gender and flag sequences.

● What are the different types of emoji categories?

During the current time, the emoji characterization is known to house 8 different categories, namely, Flags, Symbols, Objects, Travel, Activity, Food & Drink, Animals & Nature and Smileys & People.

● What is the difference between Emoji and Emoticons?

Emoticons are specifically, graphic interpretations of the various human emotions that come with a keyboard command combination. Emojis on the other hand, are a standard set of various characters, often having a different artwork, but a universal meaning.

● Is it possible to self-create custom emojis?

As of now, having self-created variants of emojis is not possible. If at all, you become successful in design a character that resembles an emoji, you can use it as an image at the most. In an attempt to share it as an emoji, you will end up sending text combinations.

● What is the best software alternative to add emojis to pictures?

When looking for an affordable software solution for catering to the concern of how to add emojis to a photo, you can go for picking the Wondershare Filmora Video Editor graphic editing program, whose editing library literally houses the largest and the latest collection of emoji categories and varieties for sparking up your images with the best possible customized appearance.

Try It Free

For Win 7 or later (64-bit)

Try It Free

For macOS 10.12 or later

● Ending Thoughts →

● Adding emojis to pictures has landed among the latest and most preferred graphic editing trends of current times.

● When beginning to address the concern of how do you add emojis to pictures, the IT market puts a diversity of software and online solutions before you.

● If you are confused about making the best choice, you can pick the Wondershare Filmora graphic editor program without having to think twice.

Try It Free Try It Free

Emojis are catchy graphic elements that can add life to your photos, videos and allied artworks within a wink. Be here to know about the most exciting how-tos!

In this article

01 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone](#Part 1)

02 [Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android](#Part 2)

03 [Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer](#Part 3)

Part 1 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on iPhone

Emojis have managed to secure enough significance in our social and professional lives across social media platforms in the current time. Be it a fun-filled conversation with friends and family on a chat service program, or a high end and professionally sound business strategy, these mini caricature pieces of graphic art can add the much needed highlight to almost every aspect of your digital communication concerns.

Now that you are aware of the utility of working with emojis to make your digital contents, let us take a dive into some of the best ways and means to make your iPhone images come alive in the following section:

01Emoji Picture Editor- Add Emojis to Your Photos

If you like to imbibe the images on your iPhone media gallery with a hoard of funny and cool emojis, this one is a perfect app to address the concern. The tool’s library houses the latest collection of emoji categories to be in line with a diversity of photo styles, themes and backgrounds. You can take your pick from the huge inventory of over 1500 different emojis to level up your photos.

Talking about the app interface and usage controls, you are granted full liberty to add emojis to your emojis, while changing their positions through a finger drag, or scale and rotate them by expanding, pinching and twisting your fingers. The app additionally allows you to send bigger emoji stickers on chats and conversations.

02Insta Emoji Photo Editor

When looking for an interesting and reliable application to set straight the concern of how to put emojis on pictures, the Insta Emoji Photo Editor is an affordable pick. Loaded with an enormous and updated emoji library, the app presents before you over 3200 fascinating emoji options to select from and add to your images.

The inclusion process is intuitively simple, with you just having to upload the desired images to the app’s working interface and choose from your most favorite emoji elements to make the stills come alive with added fun and spark. The app houses an interesting ’Emoji Paint’ feature for the extensively creative ones to let them create catchy drawings with the coolest emojis.

03Emoji My Face

Moving ahead in the list comes the aforesaid app, which you can conveniently rely on to get through the photo edit emoji task in less than a few seconds. What’s unique about the utility is its feature that lets you add emoji stickers on the faces of your image elements. Working with the app, you can transform the skinned appearances of your friends and family into hilarious emoji faces.

While the app permits you to pick any number of preferences from its latest and updated emoji collection, you can additionally, save and share your emoji centered image edits across a diversity of media sharing platforms and chat service programs.

04Emoji Background Photo Maker

While there are hoards of IT alternatives to add emojis to pictures, the following utility caters to the concern in a slightly different style, ahead of just picking and pasting emojis to still captures. Working with the tool, you can experiment with changing the customary and fundamental image backgrounds into funny and appealing emoji centered themes. You are allowed to either work with a desired image from your iPhone’s media gallery, or take a fresh shot from your device’s camera, followed by uploading the same to the app’s editing interface.

Focusing on the tool’s expanse of usage features, you get tom work with a straightforward interface, and select from a wide variety of expressive and thematic emoji backgrounds. You can further, preview and save the edited images in HD quality, and share the same with friends and family across social media handles.

05Funny Photo Editor With Emoji Stickers Camera

This one is an innovative image editing tool that lets you create funny image transformations with classic emoji stickers, while addressing the query of how to add emojis to pictures. If your peer group consists of crazy creators who are selfie freaks, try hands at uplifting your live camera shots with this application by adding the funkiest emojis and sharing them across the regular communication platforms.

The app’s default camera feature lets you capture a straight forward image and convert the same into a hilarious edit with the latest range of free emoji stickers, caricature smileys and lots more. You can additionally beautify the edits with choosing from a decent range of emoji skin tones to suit the image background.

06Instamoji- Emoji Photo Editor

If you have been searching for an affordable solution to walk through the concern of , how to add emoji to photo on your iPhone, try working with the Instamoji application to highlight your customary images with classic emoji stickers and elements within the blink of an eye. The app welcomes you with a clean and intuitive interface to work upon, and is completely free to use.

Talking about the utility’s emoji centered image editing features, you are permitted to select from a decent collection of vibrant, funny and cool emojis, assorted under a diversity of categories to complement your images with, while exporting them across your digital communication accounts with utmost ease. The app promises you of the finest quality edited image output.

Part 2 Best 6 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Android

Emojis are best known to spark up graphic artworks with an element of fun and entertainment. While the introduction of social media and digital communication utilities have brought emojis to the fingertips of modern day smartphone users, the IT market never lags behind at putting the latest transformations regarding emoji usage at your disposal.

Discussing along the line, let us talk about some interesting applications that address the concern of how to add an emoji to a photo using an Android device in what follows next:

01Add Emoji Stickers- Pics Editor and Photo Maker

This one is a smart photo editing tool that you can choose to customize the otherwise ordinary images on the local media gallery of your Android smartphone. The app greets you with an extensive range of updated emoji alternatives to suit your most specific editing requirements for complementing your elementary photos with the perfect feel and emotion.

The emojis work to add the missing fun to your social media posts with image edits funny enough to make your peers roll over with laughter. Not just smiley faces, the app delivers to you a categorized set of emojis that are a perfect fit to any graphic theme. Some of the most preferred ones include Nature, Travel, Food & Drinks, and many more. So why wait? Just get the free utility and begin to edit and share!

02Emoji Face Sticker

If you are creativity freak and love to experiment with your editing skills to put emoji on picture, try hands at working with this free image editor utility to add a fun element to your photos and give a laughter dose to your friends and family on social media. The app caters to transform your uploaded images faces to the cutest emoji look alike ever.

If that’s not enough, you can work with the app to change your smartphone’s regular camera into an emoji camera app that works to create the best caricature emoji montages from your snapped selfies. Navigating through the latte’s editing library, you will get to choose from among the craziest and coolest emoji stickers to create emoji photos out of normal stills. All in all, the app allows you to put forward your emotions in a relatively funnier way.

03Emoji Photo Editor

Are you bored of looking at those customary color backgrounds behind your images? Consider sparking them up with the cutest and most expressive emoji backgrounds. As you pick the app to edit your images, the latter grants you a complete access to its free emoji library that houses a decent collection of over 50 different emoji backgrounds to select from. A few of the most popular ones comprise of the flower and heart crown stickers, dog face camera among others.

Editing images within the app is seamless enough to last for a few seconds. You can use the created emoji background edits in a series of ways, like, preferring a local save or going for an image export to your favorite social media handle. Another cool way to show off your creativity can be making a device screen wallpaper of the emoji background image.

04Auto Face Stamp- Cover Face With Emoji

Looking forward to use an SNS services for media sharing purposes, but bothered about privacy concerns? While it is a common practice to share pictures via SNS and allied public platforms, most of us are often worried about keeping our faces hidden. Under normal circumstances, the face masking task is something you would ideally want to escape; the aforesaid app caters to the same in a funny and enjoyable manner.

Working with the utility, you can mask your image faces with over 100 different types of emoji stickers. The app aids you further in the task through its accurate face recognition ability that takes into consideration the smallest of faces with utmost precision. All you need to do is, select a desired emoji sticker and tap on the face you wish to mask with the same.

You can further, choose to directly export the masked images to media sharing handles right from the app’s editing workspace. The app is available to you absolutely free of cost and greets its users with a responsive working interface.

05Emoji Background Photo Editor

If the ordinary thematic backgrounds of your images do not suit you any longer, try working with this application to transmute the same into vibrant and expressive emoji alternatives. The aforesaid photo editing utility caters to make your images stand out of the crowd with beautiful emoji landscapes that render creative image edits of a matchless class, while maintaining a high-definition output image quality.

Extending the dimension of features to a longer stretch, the app grants you the liberty to adjust the position and transparency of the added emojis, set emoji frames and customize the emoji centered backgrounds with stunning effects and filters. As you finish with the editing process, the app lets you share your creations directly to a preferred social media platform, while also keeping them safe in your device’s local media gallery.

06Face Emoji Photo Effect

Reaching the end of the list, here comes the Face Emoji Photo Effect application that is all set to upgrade the level of your regular images with its classic and beautiful emoji backgrounds and stickers. The app’s editing library houses a diverse range of latest and elusive emojis to highlight your otherwise normal captures. The app additionally facilitates you with an expanded set of image editing features and effects to turn them into a graphic masterpiece.

The app welcomes you with a clean and responsive interface that makes the emoji inclusion process a quick and fun activity. All you need to do is, pick up an image from your locally saved alternatives and upload them to the app’s working interface, followed by browsing the latter’s emoji library to select a cohesive emoji background to complement the same.

You can further, download the premium emoji packs through a minimal payment to enhance the app’s library if the preset options do not match your requirements. The inbuilt emoji choices are however, free to work with.

Part 3 Best 5 Tools to Put Emojis on Pictures on Computer

All of us are familiar to and love using emojis everywhere, right from commenting on regular social media posts and chat service conversations, to creating professionally sound and strategic, business centered company presentations. While the most diverse use of these graphic utilities is reported on mobile devices, you may sometimes land across an instance that demands working with emojis on a computer.

Moving ahead with our discussion to address the aforesaid concern, let us talk about some of the prominent software and online solutions to set aside the issue of how to put emojis on photos while working on a computer in the upcoming section of this article:

01Kapwing

Entering into the domain of online image editing tools, the Kapwing website easily lands among the highly preferred choices. To address the concern of adding emojis to pictures on your PC or desktop systems, this one is an affordable tool to rely on. Talking of the underlying reasons behind the app’s high rated user preference, the latter allows you to access its huge inventory of emoji stickers, distributed across a heap of categories to choose from.

Next in the line is the tool’s spic and span editing process that lets you add and customize emojis on the uploaded images with a series of effects and filters in a matter of counted seconds. You can either pick and import images from your system, or work with the app’s in house emoji templates to edit the photos. As you are done with uploading images and adding emojis, proceed to place them at the desired position within the image.

The app allows you to add multiple emoji layers to the images by facilitating the creation of duplicate copies of your favorite emojis. Once you are done with the editing process, you are free to export your creation across media handles, or save them locally to your system.

02Editor.pho.to

If you are a newbie to the world of graphic editing and want to experiment with your creative skills to sort out the need of how to add an emoji to a picture, prefer landing on this free online website to work on your images. Considering the fact that not everyone around you is a tech savvy, the aforesaid online photo editing tool is designed to house the simplest of interfaces ever. The tool is available to you absolutely free of cost, without any unfair hidden purchases.

Ahead of the basic customization features, the tool grants you the freedom to expand your graphic skills on a wider canvas with presenting before you a plethora of emoji faces, stickers and backgrounds to complement the uploaded images with. Once you have added the emoji, the tool lets you work on the latter’s position and transparency adjustments, create emoji layers and overlays and save the edits to your system in a visibly high output quality.

03Add Emoji to Photo

When looking for dependable solutions to work towards the task of how to put an emoji on a photo, you can conveniently trust the aforementioned online tool to create classic emoji photo edits from the customary still alternatives son your computer. This one is a free to use image editor facility that allows you to decorate your otherwise unnoticed images with an extensive range of preset and custom emojis to make them expressive and speak out your emotions.

The tool caters to render a high definition edited image output within seconds through the simplest of customization processes. You just need to upload a desired image from your system to the tool’s working interface, followed by picking a suitable emoji from the tool’s editing library to add it to the image. If however, the available options don’t seem to address your specific requirements, you can proceed to create custom emojis of your own within the tool.

You can also create multiple emoji layers to add to the uploaded image and make adjustments to their transparency and position within the photo. As you finish the editing process, the tool grants you the liberty to download the customized image to your system in either of the PNG or JPG file formats.

04Image Online

Another entry into the list of solutions to answer the query of how to put emojis on a photo, the Image Online tool promises you of a quality constrained image editing process to complement the basic still captures in the local media gallery of your computer with the latest collection of emoji elements. Welcoming you with a decent interface, the tool caters to sort out your emoji centered picture editing requirements within a blink’s time.

To add emoji to image with this tool, you just need to upload the selected photo to the latter’s workspace, followed by selecting a preferred emoji from the editing library, or create a custom emoji of your own, to put on the image. You can customize the emoji settings in terms of position, size and transparency, and download the edits to your device in JPG and PNG image formats.

05Canva

Last in the list is the Canva graphic editing tool which you can conveniently work with to add an emoji to a picture. Having a slightly different image editing process in comparison to its online counterparts, the utility requires you to sign up to its working interface to begin editing your photos. To start with, you need to select a preset image template or pick customized dimensions to upload the desired image.

To add emojis to your picture, you will have to download the latter’s application by navigating to and tapping the ‘More’ icon, followed by choosing the ‘Emoji’ option from the drop down menu that appears next. Once the ‘Emoji’ tab shows up in the tool’s main interface, proceed to upload your image and pick a suitable emoji from the list to add to the uploaded image. You can further, add layers of emojis to the picture, while resizing and adjusting the skin tones of the same.

Part 4 Adding Emoji to Photo Q&A

● What is the total number of emoji characters till date?

As of September 2021, a total of 3,633 emojis are known to have been introduced so far. Talking of the latest emoji package, there comes the Emoji 14.0, adding 112 emoji variations to the existing count. The aforesaid is a cumulative figure, including the skin tone, gender and flag sequences.

● What are the different types of emoji categories?

During the current time, the emoji characterization is known to house 8 different categories, namely, Flags, Symbols, Objects, Travel, Activity, Food & Drink, Animals & Nature and Smileys & People.

● What is the difference between Emoji and Emoticons?

Emoticons are specifically, graphic interpretations of the various human emotions that come with a keyboard command combination. Emojis on the other hand, are a standard set of various characters, often having a different artwork, but a universal meaning.

● Is it possible to self-create custom emojis?

As of now, having self-created variants of emojis is not possible. If at all, you become successful in design a character that resembles an emoji, you can use it as an image at the most. In an attempt to share it as an emoji, you will end up sending text combinations.

● What is the best software alternative to add emojis to pictures?

When looking for an affordable software solution for catering to the concern of how to add emojis to a photo, you can go for picking the Wondershare Filmora Video Editor graphic editing program, whose editing library literally houses the largest and the latest collection of emoji categories and varieties for sparking up your images with the best possible customized appearance.

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● Ending Thoughts →

● Adding emojis to pictures has landed among the latest and most preferred graphic editing trends of current times.

● When beginning to address the concern of how do you add emojis to pictures, the IT market puts a diversity of software and online solutions before you.

● If you are confused about making the best choice, you can pick the Wondershare Filmora graphic editor program without having to think twice.

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Listening has always been more enjoyable, easier, and faster than reading. We understand better when we are listening. So it is good news for us that our life has been made even easier with the development of TTS technology or Text-to-Speech technology.

As its name suggests, TTS or Text-to-Speech is a technology that can convert texts to speech or voices. In other words, it is a technology that reads aloud any type of digital text so one can just listen to it without having to manually read those texts himself/herself. Text-to-Speech is also known as speech synthesis, which means artificial human speech production.

Though Text-to-Speech might sound like a new technology to most people, it has been here for a long time now. It’s just that only the big companies and some authorities had access to it in the past. But now, we can easily find this technology around us. Some of the popular examples would be audiobooks, read-aloud functions on websites, voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, etc.

While text-to-speech service is widely used for convenience and ease of life, its importance is not just limited to that. This technology has been extremely helpful for those with visible imparities and those who cannot read or write. Not only that, but it also has a great contribution to the field of education, business, and technology itself.

So now that we’re a little familiar with this Text to Speech system, it’s about time we have a look at some of the best Text to Speech software or say, Text to Speech converters. In this article, we’ll be covering the Top 20 Best Text to Speech Software with their price, features, and cons along with the platforms they are available for like Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and Online:

1. Murf.ai

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Murf.ai is an AI-based voice generator and text to speech converter that is popular for its ability to make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes. Unlike most of the text-to-speech software out there, Murf is focused on creating human-like voices with the help of AI rather than the same old robotic voices. And it’s not just a text-to-speech converter. Its powerful studio allows you to convert speech to editable text, make studio-like quality voiceovers, add audio to videos, etc. Therefore, all these features and its quality service help it rank in the top position on our list.

Features:

• It provides 120+ different types of AI voices for men, and women to use.
• It offers the most natural-sounding AI voices in 20 different languages.
• It has different functionalities aside Text to speech conversion like transcription, making and editing voiceovers, etc.
• It has advanced options like pitch adjustment, adding pauses, emphasizing specific words, speed, etc. to generate the audio as you want.
• It is a simple yet powerful studio for creating, editing, and managing voiceovers and audio.
• It has free grammar and punctuation assistants for your text.
• Free trial allows you to render up to 10 minutes of voice from the text.
• It provides free royalty-free background music to add to videos or voiceovers.

Price: Murf has the following three pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Basic ($13/month):

Unlimited downloads, 24 hours of voice generation per year, Access to 60 voices & 10 languages, etc.

• Pro ($26/month):

96 hours of voice generation per year, 48 hours of transcription per year, Access to 120+ voices & 20 languages, etc.

• Enterprise ($166/month):

5+ users, Unlimited voice generation & transcription, Collaboration and Access Control, Service Agreement, etc.

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too limited in the free version

2. Play.ht

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Play.ht is a web application that offers a huge library of AI voice options for converting text to speech. It generates realistic TTS audio using an online AI voice generator and the best synthetic voices from Google, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft. Play.ht can help you create professional voiceovers using AI voices from a collection of over 600 male and female voices available across 60+ different languages and accents. Along with converting text to audio, it can also help you enhance the audio with speech styles, pronunciations, and SSML tags.

Features:

• It uses synthetic voices from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
• Huge library of over 600 AI voices including male and female, and 60+ different languages and accents available.
• It supports exporting in MP3 and WAV format with full SSML support.
• Advanced settings for editing and enhancing the voice generated from text.
• Additional functionalities available like speech styles, multi-voice features, voice inflections, custom pronunciations, etc.
• It gives commercial & broadcast rights to use the generated speech files for commercial and personal use with full authority.

Price: Play.ht has the following four pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Personal ($14.25/month):

For personal use such as learning, proofreading, school projects, etc.

• Professional ($29.25/month):

For content creators, bloggers, and freelancers with commercial intent.

• Growth ($74.25/month):

For teams and small companies looking to grow with audio.

• Business ($149.25/month):

For companies and agencies looking to create audio at scale.

Cons:

• Can be a little advanced and difficult for beginners
• Voices other than English can be inconsistent

3. Notevibes

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Notevibes is online text-to-speech software that can instantly convert your text into natural-sounding speech with AI. It offers over 221 high-quality voices and 25 languages from the most popular providers: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to choose from. Notevibes can also convert text to audio and create videos with natural-sounding voices. Using it, you can save both your time and money without hiring professional voiceover artists.

Features:

• It generates realistic and natural human-like voices
• Large library of over 221 voices and 25 different languages
• Powerful editor to add pauses in one click, change speed, pitch, etc.
• Ability to control volume and emphasis on specific words.
• It grants you intellectual rights to freely use or sell voices.
• Backups are available for 14 days, so your work is safe.
• Advanced editor and high fidelity speech synthesys

Price: Notevibes has altogether 3 pricing plans plus a free version:

• Personal Pack ($9/month):

For personal use, private learning, and occasional or general purposes

• Commercial Pack ($90/month):

For Commercial use: Youtube, broadcasts, TV, IVR voiceover, and other businesses

• Corporate Pack ($4000/year):

For corporate or large-scale users with additional specific features

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too large gap between pricing plans

4. Lovo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Lovo.ai is a web-based text to speech software that helps you create perfect voiceovers for audio ads, games, animations, e-learning, etc. It is a next-generation AI voiceover & text to speech converting platform that uses AI and the latest neural network models to generate human-like voices. Lovo offers a unique collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages to choose from, plus, new voices are added on a monthly basis. Its advanced text-to-speech technology provides you the authentic voices that sound very realistic. And Lovo.ai also has the feature of Custom Voice Cloning which lets you create your own customized voice skins.

Features:

• Unique voice collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages, each with unique traits to perfectly fit any content.
• It provides authentic and realistic voices with human emotions.
• Voice cloning technology that requires just 15 minutes of any voice to create the customized voice skins.
• Growing library of voices where new voices are added monthly.
• Voiceover API Integration is also available for the developers to use in their products.
• Well-optimized studio with a smooth interface for easy use.

Price: Lovo Studio offers two pricing plans and one free plan:

• Personal ($17.49/month):

Unlimited access to all voices, the Ability to add BGM and Commercial Rights, Up to 30 downloads per month

• Freelancer ($49.99/month):

Every feature in the Personal plan, Upto 100 downloads/month

Lovo also offers three different API Pricing plans, plus a free trial for 2 weeks without any credit card information:

• Base subscription: $45 per month per 1000 calls
• Overage: $0.04per overage call
• Enterprise license

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Limits on the number of characters and downloads in paid plans

5. NaturalReader

Supported systems: Supports Windows, iPhone, Android, and online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: NaturalReader is a powerful application that can convert any text or document to audio anytime anywhere. It is one of the best and most popular text-to-speech software available today that can generate high-quality natural-sounding voices. One of its unique features is OCR Technology which reads aloud text from scanned documents or images for you. It can also be used to create audio from the text for commercial purposes with full rights. You can use NaturalReader online, through software, or with the help of its chrome extension.

Features:

• It offers 100+ natural-sounding voices available in 16 different languages.
• Its WebReader allows you to listen to the contents of any website.
• Specific features available for commercial purposes.
• OCR function available that can also read or convert the scanned documents or images into audios.
• With its pronunciation editor, you can manually modify the pronunciation of certain words.
• Specifically designed as a reading aid to help dyslexic readers.

Price: NaturalReader has three simple pricing plans including the free plan:

• Free ($0/month):

20 minutes per day with premium voices, Unlimited use with free voices, Pronunciation editor

• Premium ($9.99/month):

Unlimited use with premium voices, OCR functionality, MP3 conversion, Chrome extension with unlimited premium voices

• Plus ($19/month):

100+ Premium and Plus voices, Chrome extension with 100+ Premium and Plus voices, all the previous features

Cons:

• Free app requires Internet connectivity to access the voices.
• Not available as downloadable software for Mac devices

6. Amazon Polly

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Amazon Polly is a cloud-based service by Amazon that turns text into life-like speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Amazon Polly uses deep learning technologies and AI technology to synthesize realistic human speech in dozens of voices across many different languages. It is really a revolutionary TTS service that offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in addition to Standard TTS voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. And, one of the best things is that Amazon Polly Brand Voice can create a custom voice for exclusive use.

Features:

• It provides one of the most realistic and natural-sounding voices.
• A large number of options available for voices and languages.
• Supports API integration for applications or any products.
• It can create a custom voice for the exclusive use of your organization.
• Ability to stream audio in real-time or store & redistribute speech.
• Customisation & control options available for speech output.
• It offers a free tier as well as pay-as-you-go pricing.

Price: Amazon Polly offers two different plans for its service:

• AWS Free Tier: Limited but free 5 million characters per month for 12 months
• Pay-as-you-go plan: Depends on your usage but low cost per character converted and unlimited replays

Cons:

• Not available as a desktop or mobile application
• Beginners might have a hard time using it.
• Their pay-as-you-go pricing plan can be a little difficult to understand

7. Voice Dream Reader

Supported systems: Supports Mac and iPhone (also available as a Safari extension)

Basic intro: Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech software specifically designed for Mac and devices running iOS. It is one of the best text-to-speech software for Mac and iOS devices that provides over 100 AI voices in about 20 different languages. It not only helps you convert text to audio, but it also reads the content from any Microsoft documents, Webpage, PDFs, etc. for you. Voice Dream Reader is meticulously designed for everyone including people with blindness, dyslexia, low vision, autism, etc. It has tons of features embedded inside it like synchronized highlighting, OCR recognition, library management, visual and audio controls, etc. Plus, it has some really special features for Mac and iOS devices like Safari extension, iCloud sync, etc. which makes it one of the best choices for text-to-speech conversion.

Features:

• It offers a huge library of over 100 AI voices from Ivona, Acapela, NeoSpeech, etc, across 20 different languages.
• It can read aloud content from any documents, and web pages with different reading modes.
• Enhanced audio and visual controls available.
• Specific features like Safari Extension, and iCloud Sync for Mac and iOS devices.
• Additional functionalities like OCR, Synchronized highlighting, Library management, Annotation, etc.
• Designed with people having blindness, dyslexia, autism, etc. in mind.
• It doesn’t require an internet connection.
• Different reputed awards and recognitions received by Voice Dream Reader.

Price: Voice Dream Reader is free to download from Mac App Store while costs $19.99 to download from iOS App Store. Its free version is pretty sufficient and is feature-rich, however, this software also offers in-app purchases on both platforms.

Cons:

• Only available for Mac and iOS devices.
• Offers in-app purchases to remove limitations.

8. Kukarella

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Kukarella is an online Text-to-Speech software powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM that lets you easily create beautiful voiceovers with realistic AI voices. It can be used both as a Text-to-voice software and an Audio-to-text software. With Kukarella, you can also narrate books or scripts with multiple voices which is a beta feature. It offers one of the largest libraries of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents which is truly remarkable. Furthermore, it has a well-designed studio to work on and also includes commercial rights in its plan.

Features:

• It offers one of the largest collections of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents.
• It provides the best AI neural voices with commercial rights included.
• Also works as an Audio Transcription software to transcribe audio, recordings, and videos.
• It includes the Table Reads feature to narrate books or scripts using multiple voices.
• Referral program for bonuses and free credits to use.
• Well-optimized studio with additional effects to use in the output audio like pitch, pause, speed, emphasis, etc.

Price: Kukarella has three different paid pricing plans available with which they also provide a 15-day money-back guarantee to refund your purchase if you’re not satisfied with their service:

• Free ($0/month): For testing purposes
• Pro ($15/month): For creative people
• Premium ($35/month): For film professionals and experts
• Studio ($99/month): For business and large-scale use

Aside from these four pricing plans, Kukarella also offers a Top Ups option to let you purchase additional credits like extra characters for text-to-speech and extra minutes for audio transcription.

Cons:

• Only available as an online application.
• Doesn’t let you clone your own voice.

9. Speechelo

Supported systems: Supports all devices like Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android, and is available online too.

Basic intro: Speechelo is a new cloud-based text-to-speech software that instantly transforms any text into a 100% human-sounding voiceover. Despite being a new product in this huge marketplace, it has gained popularity very quickly due to its awesome text-to-speech conversion ability. All of their voices are said to have the necessary elements and expressions that make a voice sound real. It also claims that 98% of the people hearing a voiceover generated with Speechelo can’t tell if it is a real human voice or an AI-generated voice. However, the best thing about Speechelo is that it is available for all types of devices out there, so it has got you covered everywhere.

Features:

• It offers more than 50 natural-sounding voices in 24 different languages.
• Functionality to add inflections in the voice.
• Different voice styles and tones available.
• Has settings for adjusting the speed and pitch of the voice.
• Additional options to manually add breathing sounds and pauses, or its AI engine can automatically add them on its own.
• Compatible with all major operating systems, so it won’t matter whatever device you have.

Price: Speechelo has only one pricing plan i.e. Founders Special Offer which is basically a one-time payment for only $47 without any recurring monthly fees. On top of that, they provide a “Risk-Free 60 Days Money Back Guarantee” with which you can try Speechelo without any worries. In this one-time subscription plan, you’ll get lifetime updates and support.

Cons:

• No free version or free trial available to try
• Speechelo website might look a bit fishy or scammy

10. Nuance Dragon

Supported systems: Supports Windows, Android & iOS (previously supported Mac too but discontinued)

Basic intro: Nuance Dragon is an AI-based Text-to-Speech technology that leverages neural network techniques to deliver a human-like, engaging and personalized audio. It creates natural-sounding speech in 119 voice options across 53 different languages. With Nuance vocalizer, you can also establish a unique voice for your brand without having to hire, brief, or record voice talent. One of the best things about Nuance Dragon is that they pursue more natural and expressive speech synthesys to provide life-life audio output. And good news for the developers is that they also provide TTS API to use in the applications or any solutions.

Features:

• It supports HIPAA requirements that are important for security and confidentiality.
• It offers a big library of over 119 voice options and 53 different languages.
• AI-optimized text processing and enhanced expressivity.
• It provides text-to-speech API to use in applications and products.
• It can create a customized or unique voice for the brand.
• Has audio controls for managing or editing the generated audio.
• Dictation and transcribing features available.

Price: Nuance Dragon has 3 plans for individual and 3 plans for enterprise productivity, however, there is not a fixed price for enterprise solutions as it may depend:

• Dragon Professional Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Legal Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Anywhere Mobile: $15/month for both Android and iOS

They also have a free demo and a 30-day money-back guarantee program on every plan.

Cons:

• Not available for Mac devices
• Not much beginner-friendly to use

11. Synthesys

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Synthesys is a popular web application that can help you produce professional AI voiceovers or even AI videos in just a few clicks. It generates clear and natural voiceovers through artificial intelligence that can help you build trust and connection between you and your customers or clients. This unique text-to-speech converter eliminates the robotic and strange sounds generated by AI to the minimum. Furthermore, this online platform can create beautiful AI videos for you with just text which you can share on social media or wherever you like. It also allows you to choose voices from different gender, style, accent, speed, etc. for the speech generated from text.

Features:

• It is a web application, so you can work on your projects from any device anywhere.
• Large library of professional AI voices: 35 female and 30 male to choose from.
• Can be used as both AI Voice Generator or AI Video Generator
• It allows you to use or sell the generated voices or videos with full rights.
• User-friendly interface and easy to use.
• Advanced options available to change speed, gender, style, and accent of the voice.

Price: Synthesys has a total of three subscription plans with a 3-day moneyback guarantee. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a free plan or a free trial version.

• Audio Synthesys plan ($29/month):

Access to 20 real human voices, 66 languages & 254 general voices, and Unlimited voice-overs downloads

• Human Studio Synthesys plan ($39/month):

Access to 73 Humatars, Full video customization, Unlimited downloads, etc.

• Audio and Human Studio Synthesys plan ($59/month):

Unlimited videos and voices downloads, and all previous features included

Cons:

• Limited choices for humatars and voices
• No free trial version available

12. Linguatec Voice Reader

Supported systems: Supports only Windows operating system (all versions)

Basic intro: Linguatec Voice Reader is a downloadable text to speech software for Windows users. It offers a big collection of 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages. Aside from converting text to speech, it can also convert Word documents, emails, ebooks, and pdfs to audio for listening to them on any device. Linguatec Voice Reader Home is specifically designed for private or personal use to listen to any content but it has other specific products like Linguatec Voice Reader Studio for professional purposes and Voice Reader Server for large-scale conversion of text to speech. And, it also has a Voice Reader Web which can automatically convert your website to audio. Therefore, it has got you covered in every aspect.

Features:

• It offers 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages.
• It allows you to convert any word documents, emails, ebooks, or pdfs to audio.
• Text to speech software designed solely for personal usage.
• Intuitive editor to change the speed, volume, and pitch of the audio.
• Installable on Windows, so can be directly accessed without a browser.
• Specific products available for specific purposes like personal use, professional use, large scale use, etc.

Price: Linguatec Voice Reader has a single one-time pricing plan for its every product:

• Voice Reader Home: €49 (approximately $51)
• Voice Reader Studio: €499 (approximately $527)
• Voice Reader Web: €299 (approximately $316)
• Voice Reader Server: Depends on the company’s needs

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Interface is boring and old-fashioned.
• Only one voice and language per license.

13. Resemble AI

Supported systems: Supports Android and iOS devices, and can also be used online

Basic intro: Resemble.ai is professional text-to-speech software that generates realistic AI voices from the text. It can create your own AI voice by recording and cloning your voice data. And, it also comes with API functionality to embed TTS into any of your services or products. With its Resemble fill, it can blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience, and it even has a language dubber that can instantly dub your native voice into other languages. Furthermore, one of its best features is its ability to control the emotions of every word in a sentence which really provides a realistic experience.

Features:

• Voice cloning function to clone your own voice with AI.
• Flexible APIs ready for integration in applications, products, or any services.
• Resemble Fill function to blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience.
• It can instantly dub your native voice into other languages.
• Optimized interface and additional audio control settings.
• It can be accessed from mobile devices too with installable apps.

Price: Resemble AI has three pricing plans according to your need and a free trial:

• Entry ($30/month): For voices that are recorded right on our platform
• Build (Depends on your needs): For your own data, any voice, no script required
• Enterprise (Depends on your needs): For massive scale and custom deployment needs

Cons:

• Limited options for voices and languages
• Not available as a Windows or Mac program

14. WellSaid

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: WellSaid is an AI-powered text-to-speech software that converts text to voice in real-time and it can help you create quality voiceovers for all your digital content easily. It is one of the best voiceover generators that is not only designed for individual use, but also for small teams and large companies to work on together. With WellSaid, you can also customize the output voices, create your own unique voice or even deploy its text-to-speech functionality through API. However, it is kinda limited on the number of voices and languages.

Features:

• Has a well-optimized studio to convert text to audio.
• WellSaid API available to deploy TTS functionality in apps and products.
• It allows you to build your own voices to meet your brand guidelines.
• Suitable for individuals, teams of any size, and even large enterprises.
• Around 50 different voice avatars to choose from.
• High quality and realistic voices.
• Live chat support and rights for commercial usage.

Price: WellSaid has altogether four pricing plans and a free trial:

• Maker ($49/month):

250 downloads, 5 projects, 4 voice avatars

• Creative ($99/month):

750 downloads, 50 projects, 50 voice avatars

• Producer ($199/month):

2500 downloads, Unlimited projects, live chat support

• Team (Not fixed):

Team members, Team projects, Volume licensing, Account manager

Cons:

• Limited number of voice avatars and languages to choose from.
• Lack of features to adjust and edit the audio.

15. TTSReader

Supported systems: Supports iOS and Android devices, and is also available online and as a chrome extension

Basic intro: TTSReader is one of the simplest and best free text-to-speech readers that instantly reads aloud text, pdfs & ebooks with natural-sounding voices. It is a lightweight online application, so it works out of the box without the need to download and log in. Despite being free software, it has some really great features in it. There are various options of natural sounding voices in different languages and different accents, and it also reads aloud documents, and ebooks for you by uploading them. However, it does not allow you to directly download the audio, but you still have the option to record audio to save it in webm format.

Features:

• Simple and easy-to-use interface
• Completely free for personal or general use.
• It allows you to manually add pauses and alter the speed of the voice.
• Has many options for voices including male and female, accents, and languages.
• It reads aloud ebooks, pdfs, or any text files.
• Available for mobile devices for instant access.
• Automatically remembers the preferences of the previous session and also has options for screen recording.

Price: TTSReader is completely free without any pricing plans at all. However, they do have a premium chrome extension and a separate commercial version available for purchase.

Cons:

• Advanced features for audio are not available.
• May not be the best option for commercial purposes

16. Descript

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Descript is an all-in-one video editing, screen recording, transcription, and podcasting tool you can use online. Its podcasting tool can be a great example of Text-to-Speech software that creates quality podcasts from just text. Descript is that one tool that takes podcasting or TTS to whole another level. It uses AI technology that clones your voice and then allows you to convert any text to speech in your own AI-tailored voice. You can then directly edit the audio in real-time by editing texts. But what really separates it from other software are its unique features for adjusting texts, editing audio, adding effects, etc.

Features:

• Not just a TTS software, but also a video editing, recording, and transcription tool.
• Timeline editor for advanced level editing along with cloud media library
• Different audio effects like crossfading, automatic leveling, loudness normalization, etc.
• It can clone your voice with AI to convert text to speech.
• Free podcasting trial available which includes all the features.
• Has advanced features useful for professional podcasters.
• It supports integrations with API for applications or any services.

Price: Descript has a total of three pricing plans and a free trial version:

• Creator: $12/month
• Pro: $24/month
• Enterprise: (Not fixed)

Cons:

• Not originally a TTS software, but can be used as a one.
• Separate plans for podcasting are not available.

17. Wideo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Wideo is originally an online video maker that helps you create promo videos, explainer videos, demo videos, presentations, etc. while its Text to Speech software is another added functionality. But still, Wideo is one of the best free TTS software that lets you easily convert text to audio in a fast and straightforward manner. It also allows you to directly add these voices in Wideo’s video maker. Wideo free Text to Speech software integrates with Google Text-to-Speech API, so the quality of voices is as good as other paid software. One of the best things about Wideo TTS software is that it is simple and easy to use.

Features:

• Free and easy-to-use Text to Speech converter.
• Professional video maker along with TTS functionality.
• A large list of voices and languages to choose from.
• Speed of the generated audio adjustable.
• It allows you to download the audio as an mp3 file for free.

Price: Wideo Text-to-Speech Software is basically free with no specific pricing plans. However, its limit in the number of characters can be removed by purchasing any two of their video maker plans:

• PRO: $39/month
• PRO+: $79/month

Cons:

• Advanced text-to-speech features not available
• Voices sound a bit robotic or unreal
• No separate pricing plans available, so will have to purchase the video maker plans to remove limitations

18. Balabolka

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: Balabolka is a Windows text-to-speech software that has been in this field for a long time. It is old and feels outdated, but still is one of the most capable and useful free text to speech converters. Balabolka packs almost all the necessary features required as a TTS program in its lightweight package of just a few megabytes. This program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API and allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch. Balabolka is also available as a portable version, and as a command-line utility which is a great thing.

Features:

• Lightweight, simple, and completely free to use.
• Can read text from clipboard, and documents, and save the on-screen text as an audio file.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• It uses the pre-installed computer voices of your system.
• Also supports many different text file formats.
• Has options to alter a voice’s parameters, speed, pitch, etc.
• Available for download as a portable and command-line program too.

Price: Balabolka is absolutely free to use without any pricing plans and hidden charges.

Cons:

• Not suitable for large-scale and commercial purposes.
• Only available for Windows operating systems.
• Limited options for voices and languages.

19. iSpeech

Supported systems: Supports iOS, Android, and Online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: iSpeech is a straightforward and easy-to-use online text-to-speech converter that is also available for mobile devices. Its TTS functionality is powered by Speechelo but makes the whole process a lot simpler and easier. It supports various languages for text-to-speech conversion and also provides the options to change the speed of audio and select gender. And, it also supports Embedded and Hosted TTS services along with API integrations to use TTS in any program or service. Therefore, it acts as a simple yet powerful and professional text-to-speech software to create lifelike voiceovers.

Features:

• It supports over 30 different languages.
• Available online as well as for mobile devices (iOS and Android).
• Has options to select gender and choose audio speed.
• Simple and easy-to-use interface.
• Cloud and hosted services along with API integrations available
• Completely free to convert text to speech online and preview

Price: iSpeech is absolutely free to use online, but it has various pricing plans available for additional features like downloading audio, API integration, etc. They have different options like Pay Per Use, Pay Per Install, Creative Pricing, One-time fees, etc. so it actually depends on your needs.

Cons:

• Very limited in voice styles, accents, and tones.
• Not suitable for beginners and general users.

20. TextAloud

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: TextAloud is a Windows text-to-speech software by NextUp technologies that help you easily generate audio for the given text. It is designed to save your time allowing you to be more productive while converting text to speech. It also allows one to convert texts from web pages, documents, and PDFs into natural-sounding speech. And, it includes assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension. TextAloud by NextUp technologies also offers the natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc. And with many other features, it can be considered one of the best TTS software for your Windows device.

Features:

• Lightweight software with straightforward interface.
• It allows the conversion of texts on web pages, documents, and PDFs into speech.
• Assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension.
• It uses the pre-installed voices on the system and also offers natural-sounding Text to Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• Includes a lot of features and options related to TTS.

Price: TextAloud 4 offers a one-time payment for a Single User License at $34.95 and also has a free trial version to test this software. However, it also offers some additional features for extra fees.

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Not the best option for commercial purposes
• User interface can seem a little outdated.

Conclusion

Here, we presented you with a list of Top 20 Best Text-to-Speech Software with all their features and other information you need to know. While all of them are best in their own aspects, you should choose the one that suits your needs. For example, you can go for Balabolka or similar free softwares for basic personal use, or if you want something advanced like AI voice cloning, then you can use Murf, Descript, etc. So it all depends on what you intend to do with a TTS software.

However, we have made it easier for you to choose the best one among these many great softwares by breaking them down in terms of their main features, pricing, compatibility, cons, etc. So decide on the software that is best for you and have a happy time creating amazing voiceovers.

Listening has always been more enjoyable, easier, and faster than reading. We understand better when we are listening. So it is good news for us that our life has been made even easier with the development of TTS technology or Text-to-Speech technology.

As its name suggests, TTS or Text-to-Speech is a technology that can convert texts to speech or voices. In other words, it is a technology that reads aloud any type of digital text so one can just listen to it without having to manually read those texts himself/herself. Text-to-Speech is also known as speech synthesis, which means artificial human speech production.

Though Text-to-Speech might sound like a new technology to most people, it has been here for a long time now. It’s just that only the big companies and some authorities had access to it in the past. But now, we can easily find this technology around us. Some of the popular examples would be audiobooks, read-aloud functions on websites, voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, etc.

While text-to-speech service is widely used for convenience and ease of life, its importance is not just limited to that. This technology has been extremely helpful for those with visible imparities and those who cannot read or write. Not only that, but it also has a great contribution to the field of education, business, and technology itself.

So now that we’re a little familiar with this Text to Speech system, it’s about time we have a look at some of the best Text to Speech software or say, Text to Speech converters. In this article, we’ll be covering the Top 20 Best Text to Speech Software with their price, features, and cons along with the platforms they are available for like Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and Online:

1. Murf.ai

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Murf.ai is an AI-based voice generator and text to speech converter that is popular for its ability to make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes. Unlike most of the text-to-speech software out there, Murf is focused on creating human-like voices with the help of AI rather than the same old robotic voices. And it’s not just a text-to-speech converter. Its powerful studio allows you to convert speech to editable text, make studio-like quality voiceovers, add audio to videos, etc. Therefore, all these features and its quality service help it rank in the top position on our list.

Features:

• It provides 120+ different types of AI voices for men, and women to use.
• It offers the most natural-sounding AI voices in 20 different languages.
• It has different functionalities aside Text to speech conversion like transcription, making and editing voiceovers, etc.
• It has advanced options like pitch adjustment, adding pauses, emphasizing specific words, speed, etc. to generate the audio as you want.
• It is a simple yet powerful studio for creating, editing, and managing voiceovers and audio.
• It has free grammar and punctuation assistants for your text.
• Free trial allows you to render up to 10 minutes of voice from the text.
• It provides free royalty-free background music to add to videos or voiceovers.

Price: Murf has the following three pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Basic ($13/month):

Unlimited downloads, 24 hours of voice generation per year, Access to 60 voices & 10 languages, etc.

• Pro ($26/month):

96 hours of voice generation per year, 48 hours of transcription per year, Access to 120+ voices & 20 languages, etc.

• Enterprise ($166/month):

5+ users, Unlimited voice generation & transcription, Collaboration and Access Control, Service Agreement, etc.

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too limited in the free version

2. Play.ht

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Play.ht is a web application that offers a huge library of AI voice options for converting text to speech. It generates realistic TTS audio using an online AI voice generator and the best synthetic voices from Google, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft. Play.ht can help you create professional voiceovers using AI voices from a collection of over 600 male and female voices available across 60+ different languages and accents. Along with converting text to audio, it can also help you enhance the audio with speech styles, pronunciations, and SSML tags.

Features:

• It uses synthetic voices from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
• Huge library of over 600 AI voices including male and female, and 60+ different languages and accents available.
• It supports exporting in MP3 and WAV format with full SSML support.
• Advanced settings for editing and enhancing the voice generated from text.
• Additional functionalities available like speech styles, multi-voice features, voice inflections, custom pronunciations, etc.
• It gives commercial & broadcast rights to use the generated speech files for commercial and personal use with full authority.

Price: Play.ht has the following four pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Personal ($14.25/month):

For personal use such as learning, proofreading, school projects, etc.

• Professional ($29.25/month):

For content creators, bloggers, and freelancers with commercial intent.

• Growth ($74.25/month):

For teams and small companies looking to grow with audio.

• Business ($149.25/month):

For companies and agencies looking to create audio at scale.

Cons:

• Can be a little advanced and difficult for beginners
• Voices other than English can be inconsistent

3. Notevibes

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Notevibes is online text-to-speech software that can instantly convert your text into natural-sounding speech with AI. It offers over 221 high-quality voices and 25 languages from the most popular providers: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to choose from. Notevibes can also convert text to audio and create videos with natural-sounding voices. Using it, you can save both your time and money without hiring professional voiceover artists.

Features:

• It generates realistic and natural human-like voices
• Large library of over 221 voices and 25 different languages
• Powerful editor to add pauses in one click, change speed, pitch, etc.
• Ability to control volume and emphasis on specific words.
• It grants you intellectual rights to freely use or sell voices.
• Backups are available for 14 days, so your work is safe.
• Advanced editor and high fidelity speech synthesys

Price: Notevibes has altogether 3 pricing plans plus a free version:

• Personal Pack ($9/month):

For personal use, private learning, and occasional or general purposes

• Commercial Pack ($90/month):

For Commercial use: Youtube, broadcasts, TV, IVR voiceover, and other businesses

• Corporate Pack ($4000/year):

For corporate or large-scale users with additional specific features

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too large gap between pricing plans

4. Lovo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Lovo.ai is a web-based text to speech software that helps you create perfect voiceovers for audio ads, games, animations, e-learning, etc. It is a next-generation AI voiceover & text to speech converting platform that uses AI and the latest neural network models to generate human-like voices. Lovo offers a unique collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages to choose from, plus, new voices are added on a monthly basis. Its advanced text-to-speech technology provides you the authentic voices that sound very realistic. And Lovo.ai also has the feature of Custom Voice Cloning which lets you create your own customized voice skins.

Features:

• Unique voice collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages, each with unique traits to perfectly fit any content.
• It provides authentic and realistic voices with human emotions.
• Voice cloning technology that requires just 15 minutes of any voice to create the customized voice skins.
• Growing library of voices where new voices are added monthly.
• Voiceover API Integration is also available for the developers to use in their products.
• Well-optimized studio with a smooth interface for easy use.

Price: Lovo Studio offers two pricing plans and one free plan:

• Personal ($17.49/month):

Unlimited access to all voices, the Ability to add BGM and Commercial Rights, Up to 30 downloads per month

• Freelancer ($49.99/month):

Every feature in the Personal plan, Upto 100 downloads/month

Lovo also offers three different API Pricing plans, plus a free trial for 2 weeks without any credit card information:

• Base subscription: $45 per month per 1000 calls
• Overage: $0.04per overage call
• Enterprise license

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Limits on the number of characters and downloads in paid plans

5. NaturalReader

Supported systems: Supports Windows, iPhone, Android, and online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: NaturalReader is a powerful application that can convert any text or document to audio anytime anywhere. It is one of the best and most popular text-to-speech software available today that can generate high-quality natural-sounding voices. One of its unique features is OCR Technology which reads aloud text from scanned documents or images for you. It can also be used to create audio from the text for commercial purposes with full rights. You can use NaturalReader online, through software, or with the help of its chrome extension.

Features:

• It offers 100+ natural-sounding voices available in 16 different languages.
• Its WebReader allows you to listen to the contents of any website.
• Specific features available for commercial purposes.
• OCR function available that can also read or convert the scanned documents or images into audios.
• With its pronunciation editor, you can manually modify the pronunciation of certain words.
• Specifically designed as a reading aid to help dyslexic readers.

Price: NaturalReader has three simple pricing plans including the free plan:

• Free ($0/month):

20 minutes per day with premium voices, Unlimited use with free voices, Pronunciation editor

• Premium ($9.99/month):

Unlimited use with premium voices, OCR functionality, MP3 conversion, Chrome extension with unlimited premium voices

• Plus ($19/month):

100+ Premium and Plus voices, Chrome extension with 100+ Premium and Plus voices, all the previous features

Cons:

• Free app requires Internet connectivity to access the voices.
• Not available as downloadable software for Mac devices

6. Amazon Polly

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Amazon Polly is a cloud-based service by Amazon that turns text into life-like speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Amazon Polly uses deep learning technologies and AI technology to synthesize realistic human speech in dozens of voices across many different languages. It is really a revolutionary TTS service that offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in addition to Standard TTS voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. And, one of the best things is that Amazon Polly Brand Voice can create a custom voice for exclusive use.

Features:

• It provides one of the most realistic and natural-sounding voices.
• A large number of options available for voices and languages.
• Supports API integration for applications or any products.
• It can create a custom voice for the exclusive use of your organization.
• Ability to stream audio in real-time or store & redistribute speech.
• Customisation & control options available for speech output.
• It offers a free tier as well as pay-as-you-go pricing.

Price: Amazon Polly offers two different plans for its service:

• AWS Free Tier: Limited but free 5 million characters per month for 12 months
• Pay-as-you-go plan: Depends on your usage but low cost per character converted and unlimited replays

Cons:

• Not available as a desktop or mobile application
• Beginners might have a hard time using it.
• Their pay-as-you-go pricing plan can be a little difficult to understand

7. Voice Dream Reader

Supported systems: Supports Mac and iPhone (also available as a Safari extension)

Basic intro: Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech software specifically designed for Mac and devices running iOS. It is one of the best text-to-speech software for Mac and iOS devices that provides over 100 AI voices in about 20 different languages. It not only helps you convert text to audio, but it also reads the content from any Microsoft documents, Webpage, PDFs, etc. for you. Voice Dream Reader is meticulously designed for everyone including people with blindness, dyslexia, low vision, autism, etc. It has tons of features embedded inside it like synchronized highlighting, OCR recognition, library management, visual and audio controls, etc. Plus, it has some really special features for Mac and iOS devices like Safari extension, iCloud sync, etc. which makes it one of the best choices for text-to-speech conversion.

Features:

• It offers a huge library of over 100 AI voices from Ivona, Acapela, NeoSpeech, etc, across 20 different languages.
• It can read aloud content from any documents, and web pages with different reading modes.
• Enhanced audio and visual controls available.
• Specific features like Safari Extension, and iCloud Sync for Mac and iOS devices.
• Additional functionalities like OCR, Synchronized highlighting, Library management, Annotation, etc.
• Designed with people having blindness, dyslexia, autism, etc. in mind.
• It doesn’t require an internet connection.
• Different reputed awards and recognitions received by Voice Dream Reader.

Price: Voice Dream Reader is free to download from Mac App Store while costs $19.99 to download from iOS App Store. Its free version is pretty sufficient and is feature-rich, however, this software also offers in-app purchases on both platforms.

Cons:

• Only available for Mac and iOS devices.
• Offers in-app purchases to remove limitations.

8. Kukarella

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Kukarella is an online Text-to-Speech software powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM that lets you easily create beautiful voiceovers with realistic AI voices. It can be used both as a Text-to-voice software and an Audio-to-text software. With Kukarella, you can also narrate books or scripts with multiple voices which is a beta feature. It offers one of the largest libraries of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents which is truly remarkable. Furthermore, it has a well-designed studio to work on and also includes commercial rights in its plan.

Features:

• It offers one of the largest collections of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents.
• It provides the best AI neural voices with commercial rights included.
• Also works as an Audio Transcription software to transcribe audio, recordings, and videos.
• It includes the Table Reads feature to narrate books or scripts using multiple voices.
• Referral program for bonuses and free credits to use.
• Well-optimized studio with additional effects to use in the output audio like pitch, pause, speed, emphasis, etc.

Price: Kukarella has three different paid pricing plans available with which they also provide a 15-day money-back guarantee to refund your purchase if you’re not satisfied with their service:

• Free ($0/month): For testing purposes
• Pro ($15/month): For creative people
• Premium ($35/month): For film professionals and experts
• Studio ($99/month): For business and large-scale use

Aside from these four pricing plans, Kukarella also offers a Top Ups option to let you purchase additional credits like extra characters for text-to-speech and extra minutes for audio transcription.

Cons:

• Only available as an online application.
• Doesn’t let you clone your own voice.

9. Speechelo

Supported systems: Supports all devices like Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android, and is available online too.

Basic intro: Speechelo is a new cloud-based text-to-speech software that instantly transforms any text into a 100% human-sounding voiceover. Despite being a new product in this huge marketplace, it has gained popularity very quickly due to its awesome text-to-speech conversion ability. All of their voices are said to have the necessary elements and expressions that make a voice sound real. It also claims that 98% of the people hearing a voiceover generated with Speechelo can’t tell if it is a real human voice or an AI-generated voice. However, the best thing about Speechelo is that it is available for all types of devices out there, so it has got you covered everywhere.

Features:

• It offers more than 50 natural-sounding voices in 24 different languages.
• Functionality to add inflections in the voice.
• Different voice styles and tones available.
• Has settings for adjusting the speed and pitch of the voice.
• Additional options to manually add breathing sounds and pauses, or its AI engine can automatically add them on its own.
• Compatible with all major operating systems, so it won’t matter whatever device you have.

Price: Speechelo has only one pricing plan i.e. Founders Special Offer which is basically a one-time payment for only $47 without any recurring monthly fees. On top of that, they provide a “Risk-Free 60 Days Money Back Guarantee” with which you can try Speechelo without any worries. In this one-time subscription plan, you’ll get lifetime updates and support.

Cons:

• No free version or free trial available to try
• Speechelo website might look a bit fishy or scammy

10. Nuance Dragon

Supported systems: Supports Windows, Android & iOS (previously supported Mac too but discontinued)

Basic intro: Nuance Dragon is an AI-based Text-to-Speech technology that leverages neural network techniques to deliver a human-like, engaging and personalized audio. It creates natural-sounding speech in 119 voice options across 53 different languages. With Nuance vocalizer, you can also establish a unique voice for your brand without having to hire, brief, or record voice talent. One of the best things about Nuance Dragon is that they pursue more natural and expressive speech synthesys to provide life-life audio output. And good news for the developers is that they also provide TTS API to use in the applications or any solutions.

Features:

• It supports HIPAA requirements that are important for security and confidentiality.
• It offers a big library of over 119 voice options and 53 different languages.
• AI-optimized text processing and enhanced expressivity.
• It provides text-to-speech API to use in applications and products.
• It can create a customized or unique voice for the brand.
• Has audio controls for managing or editing the generated audio.
• Dictation and transcribing features available.

Price: Nuance Dragon has 3 plans for individual and 3 plans for enterprise productivity, however, there is not a fixed price for enterprise solutions as it may depend:

• Dragon Professional Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Legal Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Anywhere Mobile: $15/month for both Android and iOS

They also have a free demo and a 30-day money-back guarantee program on every plan.

Cons:

• Not available for Mac devices
• Not much beginner-friendly to use

11. Synthesys

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Synthesys is a popular web application that can help you produce professional AI voiceovers or even AI videos in just a few clicks. It generates clear and natural voiceovers through artificial intelligence that can help you build trust and connection between you and your customers or clients. This unique text-to-speech converter eliminates the robotic and strange sounds generated by AI to the minimum. Furthermore, this online platform can create beautiful AI videos for you with just text which you can share on social media or wherever you like. It also allows you to choose voices from different gender, style, accent, speed, etc. for the speech generated from text.

Features:

• It is a web application, so you can work on your projects from any device anywhere.
• Large library of professional AI voices: 35 female and 30 male to choose from.
• Can be used as both AI Voice Generator or AI Video Generator
• It allows you to use or sell the generated voices or videos with full rights.
• User-friendly interface and easy to use.
• Advanced options available to change speed, gender, style, and accent of the voice.

Price: Synthesys has a total of three subscription plans with a 3-day moneyback guarantee. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a free plan or a free trial version.

• Audio Synthesys plan ($29/month):

Access to 20 real human voices, 66 languages & 254 general voices, and Unlimited voice-overs downloads

• Human Studio Synthesys plan ($39/month):

Access to 73 Humatars, Full video customization, Unlimited downloads, etc.

• Audio and Human Studio Synthesys plan ($59/month):

Unlimited videos and voices downloads, and all previous features included

Cons:

• Limited choices for humatars and voices
• No free trial version available

12. Linguatec Voice Reader

Supported systems: Supports only Windows operating system (all versions)

Basic intro: Linguatec Voice Reader is a downloadable text to speech software for Windows users. It offers a big collection of 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages. Aside from converting text to speech, it can also convert Word documents, emails, ebooks, and pdfs to audio for listening to them on any device. Linguatec Voice Reader Home is specifically designed for private or personal use to listen to any content but it has other specific products like Linguatec Voice Reader Studio for professional purposes and Voice Reader Server for large-scale conversion of text to speech. And, it also has a Voice Reader Web which can automatically convert your website to audio. Therefore, it has got you covered in every aspect.

Features:

• It offers 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages.
• It allows you to convert any word documents, emails, ebooks, or pdfs to audio.
• Text to speech software designed solely for personal usage.
• Intuitive editor to change the speed, volume, and pitch of the audio.
• Installable on Windows, so can be directly accessed without a browser.
• Specific products available for specific purposes like personal use, professional use, large scale use, etc.

Price: Linguatec Voice Reader has a single one-time pricing plan for its every product:

• Voice Reader Home: €49 (approximately $51)
• Voice Reader Studio: €499 (approximately $527)
• Voice Reader Web: €299 (approximately $316)
• Voice Reader Server: Depends on the company’s needs

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Interface is boring and old-fashioned.
• Only one voice and language per license.

13. Resemble AI

Supported systems: Supports Android and iOS devices, and can also be used online

Basic intro: Resemble.ai is professional text-to-speech software that generates realistic AI voices from the text. It can create your own AI voice by recording and cloning your voice data. And, it also comes with API functionality to embed TTS into any of your services or products. With its Resemble fill, it can blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience, and it even has a language dubber that can instantly dub your native voice into other languages. Furthermore, one of its best features is its ability to control the emotions of every word in a sentence which really provides a realistic experience.

Features:

• Voice cloning function to clone your own voice with AI.
• Flexible APIs ready for integration in applications, products, or any services.
• Resemble Fill function to blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience.
• It can instantly dub your native voice into other languages.
• Optimized interface and additional audio control settings.
• It can be accessed from mobile devices too with installable apps.

Price: Resemble AI has three pricing plans according to your need and a free trial:

• Entry ($30/month): For voices that are recorded right on our platform
• Build (Depends on your needs): For your own data, any voice, no script required
• Enterprise (Depends on your needs): For massive scale and custom deployment needs

Cons:

• Limited options for voices and languages
• Not available as a Windows or Mac program

14. WellSaid

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: WellSaid is an AI-powered text-to-speech software that converts text to voice in real-time and it can help you create quality voiceovers for all your digital content easily. It is one of the best voiceover generators that is not only designed for individual use, but also for small teams and large companies to work on together. With WellSaid, you can also customize the output voices, create your own unique voice or even deploy its text-to-speech functionality through API. However, it is kinda limited on the number of voices and languages.

Features:

• Has a well-optimized studio to convert text to audio.
• WellSaid API available to deploy TTS functionality in apps and products.
• It allows you to build your own voices to meet your brand guidelines.
• Suitable for individuals, teams of any size, and even large enterprises.
• Around 50 different voice avatars to choose from.
• High quality and realistic voices.
• Live chat support and rights for commercial usage.

Price: WellSaid has altogether four pricing plans and a free trial:

• Maker ($49/month):

250 downloads, 5 projects, 4 voice avatars

• Creative ($99/month):

750 downloads, 50 projects, 50 voice avatars

• Producer ($199/month):

2500 downloads, Unlimited projects, live chat support

• Team (Not fixed):

Team members, Team projects, Volume licensing, Account manager

Cons:

• Limited number of voice avatars and languages to choose from.
• Lack of features to adjust and edit the audio.

15. TTSReader

Supported systems: Supports iOS and Android devices, and is also available online and as a chrome extension

Basic intro: TTSReader is one of the simplest and best free text-to-speech readers that instantly reads aloud text, pdfs & ebooks with natural-sounding voices. It is a lightweight online application, so it works out of the box without the need to download and log in. Despite being free software, it has some really great features in it. There are various options of natural sounding voices in different languages and different accents, and it also reads aloud documents, and ebooks for you by uploading them. However, it does not allow you to directly download the audio, but you still have the option to record audio to save it in webm format.

Features:

• Simple and easy-to-use interface
• Completely free for personal or general use.
• It allows you to manually add pauses and alter the speed of the voice.
• Has many options for voices including male and female, accents, and languages.
• It reads aloud ebooks, pdfs, or any text files.
• Available for mobile devices for instant access.
• Automatically remembers the preferences of the previous session and also has options for screen recording.

Price: TTSReader is completely free without any pricing plans at all. However, they do have a premium chrome extension and a separate commercial version available for purchase.

Cons:

• Advanced features for audio are not available.
• May not be the best option for commercial purposes

16. Descript

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Descript is an all-in-one video editing, screen recording, transcription, and podcasting tool you can use online. Its podcasting tool can be a great example of Text-to-Speech software that creates quality podcasts from just text. Descript is that one tool that takes podcasting or TTS to whole another level. It uses AI technology that clones your voice and then allows you to convert any text to speech in your own AI-tailored voice. You can then directly edit the audio in real-time by editing texts. But what really separates it from other software are its unique features for adjusting texts, editing audio, adding effects, etc.

Features:

• Not just a TTS software, but also a video editing, recording, and transcription tool.
• Timeline editor for advanced level editing along with cloud media library
• Different audio effects like crossfading, automatic leveling, loudness normalization, etc.
• It can clone your voice with AI to convert text to speech.
• Free podcasting trial available which includes all the features.
• Has advanced features useful for professional podcasters.
• It supports integrations with API for applications or any services.

Price: Descript has a total of three pricing plans and a free trial version:

• Creator: $12/month
• Pro: $24/month
• Enterprise: (Not fixed)

Cons:

• Not originally a TTS software, but can be used as a one.
• Separate plans for podcasting are not available.

17. Wideo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Wideo is originally an online video maker that helps you create promo videos, explainer videos, demo videos, presentations, etc. while its Text to Speech software is another added functionality. But still, Wideo is one of the best free TTS software that lets you easily convert text to audio in a fast and straightforward manner. It also allows you to directly add these voices in Wideo’s video maker. Wideo free Text to Speech software integrates with Google Text-to-Speech API, so the quality of voices is as good as other paid software. One of the best things about Wideo TTS software is that it is simple and easy to use.

Features:

• Free and easy-to-use Text to Speech converter.
• Professional video maker along with TTS functionality.
• A large list of voices and languages to choose from.
• Speed of the generated audio adjustable.
• It allows you to download the audio as an mp3 file for free.

Price: Wideo Text-to-Speech Software is basically free with no specific pricing plans. However, its limit in the number of characters can be removed by purchasing any two of their video maker plans:

• PRO: $39/month
• PRO+: $79/month

Cons:

• Advanced text-to-speech features not available
• Voices sound a bit robotic or unreal
• No separate pricing plans available, so will have to purchase the video maker plans to remove limitations

18. Balabolka

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: Balabolka is a Windows text-to-speech software that has been in this field for a long time. It is old and feels outdated, but still is one of the most capable and useful free text to speech converters. Balabolka packs almost all the necessary features required as a TTS program in its lightweight package of just a few megabytes. This program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API and allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch. Balabolka is also available as a portable version, and as a command-line utility which is a great thing.

Features:

• Lightweight, simple, and completely free to use.
• Can read text from clipboard, and documents, and save the on-screen text as an audio file.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• It uses the pre-installed computer voices of your system.
• Also supports many different text file formats.
• Has options to alter a voice’s parameters, speed, pitch, etc.
• Available for download as a portable and command-line program too.

Price: Balabolka is absolutely free to use without any pricing plans and hidden charges.

Cons:

• Not suitable for large-scale and commercial purposes.
• Only available for Windows operating systems.
• Limited options for voices and languages.

19. iSpeech

Supported systems: Supports iOS, Android, and Online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: iSpeech is a straightforward and easy-to-use online text-to-speech converter that is also available for mobile devices. Its TTS functionality is powered by Speechelo but makes the whole process a lot simpler and easier. It supports various languages for text-to-speech conversion and also provides the options to change the speed of audio and select gender. And, it also supports Embedded and Hosted TTS services along with API integrations to use TTS in any program or service. Therefore, it acts as a simple yet powerful and professional text-to-speech software to create lifelike voiceovers.

Features:

• It supports over 30 different languages.
• Available online as well as for mobile devices (iOS and Android).
• Has options to select gender and choose audio speed.
• Simple and easy-to-use interface.
• Cloud and hosted services along with API integrations available
• Completely free to convert text to speech online and preview

Price: iSpeech is absolutely free to use online, but it has various pricing plans available for additional features like downloading audio, API integration, etc. They have different options like Pay Per Use, Pay Per Install, Creative Pricing, One-time fees, etc. so it actually depends on your needs.

Cons:

• Very limited in voice styles, accents, and tones.
• Not suitable for beginners and general users.

20. TextAloud

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: TextAloud is a Windows text-to-speech software by NextUp technologies that help you easily generate audio for the given text. It is designed to save your time allowing you to be more productive while converting text to speech. It also allows one to convert texts from web pages, documents, and PDFs into natural-sounding speech. And, it includes assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension. TextAloud by NextUp technologies also offers the natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc. And with many other features, it can be considered one of the best TTS software for your Windows device.

Features:

• Lightweight software with straightforward interface.
• It allows the conversion of texts on web pages, documents, and PDFs into speech.
• Assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension.
• It uses the pre-installed voices on the system and also offers natural-sounding Text to Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• Includes a lot of features and options related to TTS.

Price: TextAloud 4 offers a one-time payment for a Single User License at $34.95 and also has a free trial version to test this software. However, it also offers some additional features for extra fees.

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Not the best option for commercial purposes
• User interface can seem a little outdated.

Conclusion

Here, we presented you with a list of Top 20 Best Text-to-Speech Software with all their features and other information you need to know. While all of them are best in their own aspects, you should choose the one that suits your needs. For example, you can go for Balabolka or similar free softwares for basic personal use, or if you want something advanced like AI voice cloning, then you can use Murf, Descript, etc. So it all depends on what you intend to do with a TTS software.

However, we have made it easier for you to choose the best one among these many great softwares by breaking them down in terms of their main features, pricing, compatibility, cons, etc. So decide on the software that is best for you and have a happy time creating amazing voiceovers.

Listening has always been more enjoyable, easier, and faster than reading. We understand better when we are listening. So it is good news for us that our life has been made even easier with the development of TTS technology or Text-to-Speech technology.

As its name suggests, TTS or Text-to-Speech is a technology that can convert texts to speech or voices. In other words, it is a technology that reads aloud any type of digital text so one can just listen to it without having to manually read those texts himself/herself. Text-to-Speech is also known as speech synthesis, which means artificial human speech production.

Though Text-to-Speech might sound like a new technology to most people, it has been here for a long time now. It’s just that only the big companies and some authorities had access to it in the past. But now, we can easily find this technology around us. Some of the popular examples would be audiobooks, read-aloud functions on websites, voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, etc.

While text-to-speech service is widely used for convenience and ease of life, its importance is not just limited to that. This technology has been extremely helpful for those with visible imparities and those who cannot read or write. Not only that, but it also has a great contribution to the field of education, business, and technology itself.

So now that we’re a little familiar with this Text to Speech system, it’s about time we have a look at some of the best Text to Speech software or say, Text to Speech converters. In this article, we’ll be covering the Top 20 Best Text to Speech Software with their price, features, and cons along with the platforms they are available for like Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and Online:

1. Murf.ai

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Murf.ai is an AI-based voice generator and text to speech converter that is popular for its ability to make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes. Unlike most of the text-to-speech software out there, Murf is focused on creating human-like voices with the help of AI rather than the same old robotic voices. And it’s not just a text-to-speech converter. Its powerful studio allows you to convert speech to editable text, make studio-like quality voiceovers, add audio to videos, etc. Therefore, all these features and its quality service help it rank in the top position on our list.

Features:

• It provides 120+ different types of AI voices for men, and women to use.
• It offers the most natural-sounding AI voices in 20 different languages.
• It has different functionalities aside Text to speech conversion like transcription, making and editing voiceovers, etc.
• It has advanced options like pitch adjustment, adding pauses, emphasizing specific words, speed, etc. to generate the audio as you want.
• It is a simple yet powerful studio for creating, editing, and managing voiceovers and audio.
• It has free grammar and punctuation assistants for your text.
• Free trial allows you to render up to 10 minutes of voice from the text.
• It provides free royalty-free background music to add to videos or voiceovers.

Price: Murf has the following three pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Basic ($13/month):

Unlimited downloads, 24 hours of voice generation per year, Access to 60 voices & 10 languages, etc.

• Pro ($26/month):

96 hours of voice generation per year, 48 hours of transcription per year, Access to 120+ voices & 20 languages, etc.

• Enterprise ($166/month):

5+ users, Unlimited voice generation & transcription, Collaboration and Access Control, Service Agreement, etc.

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too limited in the free version

2. Play.ht

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Play.ht is a web application that offers a huge library of AI voice options for converting text to speech. It generates realistic TTS audio using an online AI voice generator and the best synthetic voices from Google, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft. Play.ht can help you create professional voiceovers using AI voices from a collection of over 600 male and female voices available across 60+ different languages and accents. Along with converting text to audio, it can also help you enhance the audio with speech styles, pronunciations, and SSML tags.

Features:

• It uses synthetic voices from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
• Huge library of over 600 AI voices including male and female, and 60+ different languages and accents available.
• It supports exporting in MP3 and WAV format with full SSML support.
• Advanced settings for editing and enhancing the voice generated from text.
• Additional functionalities available like speech styles, multi-voice features, voice inflections, custom pronunciations, etc.
• It gives commercial & broadcast rights to use the generated speech files for commercial and personal use with full authority.

Price: Play.ht has the following four pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Personal ($14.25/month):

For personal use such as learning, proofreading, school projects, etc.

• Professional ($29.25/month):

For content creators, bloggers, and freelancers with commercial intent.

• Growth ($74.25/month):

For teams and small companies looking to grow with audio.

• Business ($149.25/month):

For companies and agencies looking to create audio at scale.

Cons:

• Can be a little advanced and difficult for beginners
• Voices other than English can be inconsistent

3. Notevibes

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Notevibes is online text-to-speech software that can instantly convert your text into natural-sounding speech with AI. It offers over 221 high-quality voices and 25 languages from the most popular providers: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to choose from. Notevibes can also convert text to audio and create videos with natural-sounding voices. Using it, you can save both your time and money without hiring professional voiceover artists.

Features:

• It generates realistic and natural human-like voices
• Large library of over 221 voices and 25 different languages
• Powerful editor to add pauses in one click, change speed, pitch, etc.
• Ability to control volume and emphasis on specific words.
• It grants you intellectual rights to freely use or sell voices.
• Backups are available for 14 days, so your work is safe.
• Advanced editor and high fidelity speech synthesys

Price: Notevibes has altogether 3 pricing plans plus a free version:

• Personal Pack ($9/month):

For personal use, private learning, and occasional or general purposes

• Commercial Pack ($90/month):

For Commercial use: Youtube, broadcasts, TV, IVR voiceover, and other businesses

• Corporate Pack ($4000/year):

For corporate or large-scale users with additional specific features

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too large gap between pricing plans

4. Lovo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Lovo.ai is a web-based text to speech software that helps you create perfect voiceovers for audio ads, games, animations, e-learning, etc. It is a next-generation AI voiceover & text to speech converting platform that uses AI and the latest neural network models to generate human-like voices. Lovo offers a unique collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages to choose from, plus, new voices are added on a monthly basis. Its advanced text-to-speech technology provides you the authentic voices that sound very realistic. And Lovo.ai also has the feature of Custom Voice Cloning which lets you create your own customized voice skins.

Features:

• Unique voice collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages, each with unique traits to perfectly fit any content.
• It provides authentic and realistic voices with human emotions.
• Voice cloning technology that requires just 15 minutes of any voice to create the customized voice skins.
• Growing library of voices where new voices are added monthly.
• Voiceover API Integration is also available for the developers to use in their products.
• Well-optimized studio with a smooth interface for easy use.

Price: Lovo Studio offers two pricing plans and one free plan:

• Personal ($17.49/month):

Unlimited access to all voices, the Ability to add BGM and Commercial Rights, Up to 30 downloads per month

• Freelancer ($49.99/month):

Every feature in the Personal plan, Upto 100 downloads/month

Lovo also offers three different API Pricing plans, plus a free trial for 2 weeks without any credit card information:

• Base subscription: $45 per month per 1000 calls
• Overage: $0.04per overage call
• Enterprise license

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Limits on the number of characters and downloads in paid plans

5. NaturalReader

Supported systems: Supports Windows, iPhone, Android, and online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: NaturalReader is a powerful application that can convert any text or document to audio anytime anywhere. It is one of the best and most popular text-to-speech software available today that can generate high-quality natural-sounding voices. One of its unique features is OCR Technology which reads aloud text from scanned documents or images for you. It can also be used to create audio from the text for commercial purposes with full rights. You can use NaturalReader online, through software, or with the help of its chrome extension.

Features:

• It offers 100+ natural-sounding voices available in 16 different languages.
• Its WebReader allows you to listen to the contents of any website.
• Specific features available for commercial purposes.
• OCR function available that can also read or convert the scanned documents or images into audios.
• With its pronunciation editor, you can manually modify the pronunciation of certain words.
• Specifically designed as a reading aid to help dyslexic readers.

Price: NaturalReader has three simple pricing plans including the free plan:

• Free ($0/month):

20 minutes per day with premium voices, Unlimited use with free voices, Pronunciation editor

• Premium ($9.99/month):

Unlimited use with premium voices, OCR functionality, MP3 conversion, Chrome extension with unlimited premium voices

• Plus ($19/month):

100+ Premium and Plus voices, Chrome extension with 100+ Premium and Plus voices, all the previous features

Cons:

• Free app requires Internet connectivity to access the voices.
• Not available as downloadable software for Mac devices

6. Amazon Polly

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Amazon Polly is a cloud-based service by Amazon that turns text into life-like speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Amazon Polly uses deep learning technologies and AI technology to synthesize realistic human speech in dozens of voices across many different languages. It is really a revolutionary TTS service that offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in addition to Standard TTS voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. And, one of the best things is that Amazon Polly Brand Voice can create a custom voice for exclusive use.

Features:

• It provides one of the most realistic and natural-sounding voices.
• A large number of options available for voices and languages.
• Supports API integration for applications or any products.
• It can create a custom voice for the exclusive use of your organization.
• Ability to stream audio in real-time or store & redistribute speech.
• Customisation & control options available for speech output.
• It offers a free tier as well as pay-as-you-go pricing.

Price: Amazon Polly offers two different plans for its service:

• AWS Free Tier: Limited but free 5 million characters per month for 12 months
• Pay-as-you-go plan: Depends on your usage but low cost per character converted and unlimited replays

Cons:

• Not available as a desktop or mobile application
• Beginners might have a hard time using it.
• Their pay-as-you-go pricing plan can be a little difficult to understand

7. Voice Dream Reader

Supported systems: Supports Mac and iPhone (also available as a Safari extension)

Basic intro: Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech software specifically designed for Mac and devices running iOS. It is one of the best text-to-speech software for Mac and iOS devices that provides over 100 AI voices in about 20 different languages. It not only helps you convert text to audio, but it also reads the content from any Microsoft documents, Webpage, PDFs, etc. for you. Voice Dream Reader is meticulously designed for everyone including people with blindness, dyslexia, low vision, autism, etc. It has tons of features embedded inside it like synchronized highlighting, OCR recognition, library management, visual and audio controls, etc. Plus, it has some really special features for Mac and iOS devices like Safari extension, iCloud sync, etc. which makes it one of the best choices for text-to-speech conversion.

Features:

• It offers a huge library of over 100 AI voices from Ivona, Acapela, NeoSpeech, etc, across 20 different languages.
• It can read aloud content from any documents, and web pages with different reading modes.
• Enhanced audio and visual controls available.
• Specific features like Safari Extension, and iCloud Sync for Mac and iOS devices.
• Additional functionalities like OCR, Synchronized highlighting, Library management, Annotation, etc.
• Designed with people having blindness, dyslexia, autism, etc. in mind.
• It doesn’t require an internet connection.
• Different reputed awards and recognitions received by Voice Dream Reader.

Price: Voice Dream Reader is free to download from Mac App Store while costs $19.99 to download from iOS App Store. Its free version is pretty sufficient and is feature-rich, however, this software also offers in-app purchases on both platforms.

Cons:

• Only available for Mac and iOS devices.
• Offers in-app purchases to remove limitations.

8. Kukarella

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Kukarella is an online Text-to-Speech software powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM that lets you easily create beautiful voiceovers with realistic AI voices. It can be used both as a Text-to-voice software and an Audio-to-text software. With Kukarella, you can also narrate books or scripts with multiple voices which is a beta feature. It offers one of the largest libraries of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents which is truly remarkable. Furthermore, it has a well-designed studio to work on and also includes commercial rights in its plan.

Features:

• It offers one of the largest collections of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents.
• It provides the best AI neural voices with commercial rights included.
• Also works as an Audio Transcription software to transcribe audio, recordings, and videos.
• It includes the Table Reads feature to narrate books or scripts using multiple voices.
• Referral program for bonuses and free credits to use.
• Well-optimized studio with additional effects to use in the output audio like pitch, pause, speed, emphasis, etc.

Price: Kukarella has three different paid pricing plans available with which they also provide a 15-day money-back guarantee to refund your purchase if you’re not satisfied with their service:

• Free ($0/month): For testing purposes
• Pro ($15/month): For creative people
• Premium ($35/month): For film professionals and experts
• Studio ($99/month): For business and large-scale use

Aside from these four pricing plans, Kukarella also offers a Top Ups option to let you purchase additional credits like extra characters for text-to-speech and extra minutes for audio transcription.

Cons:

• Only available as an online application.
• Doesn’t let you clone your own voice.

9. Speechelo

Supported systems: Supports all devices like Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android, and is available online too.

Basic intro: Speechelo is a new cloud-based text-to-speech software that instantly transforms any text into a 100% human-sounding voiceover. Despite being a new product in this huge marketplace, it has gained popularity very quickly due to its awesome text-to-speech conversion ability. All of their voices are said to have the necessary elements and expressions that make a voice sound real. It also claims that 98% of the people hearing a voiceover generated with Speechelo can’t tell if it is a real human voice or an AI-generated voice. However, the best thing about Speechelo is that it is available for all types of devices out there, so it has got you covered everywhere.

Features:

• It offers more than 50 natural-sounding voices in 24 different languages.
• Functionality to add inflections in the voice.
• Different voice styles and tones available.
• Has settings for adjusting the speed and pitch of the voice.
• Additional options to manually add breathing sounds and pauses, or its AI engine can automatically add them on its own.
• Compatible with all major operating systems, so it won’t matter whatever device you have.

Price: Speechelo has only one pricing plan i.e. Founders Special Offer which is basically a one-time payment for only $47 without any recurring monthly fees. On top of that, they provide a “Risk-Free 60 Days Money Back Guarantee” with which you can try Speechelo without any worries. In this one-time subscription plan, you’ll get lifetime updates and support.

Cons:

• No free version or free trial available to try
• Speechelo website might look a bit fishy or scammy

10. Nuance Dragon

Supported systems: Supports Windows, Android & iOS (previously supported Mac too but discontinued)

Basic intro: Nuance Dragon is an AI-based Text-to-Speech technology that leverages neural network techniques to deliver a human-like, engaging and personalized audio. It creates natural-sounding speech in 119 voice options across 53 different languages. With Nuance vocalizer, you can also establish a unique voice for your brand without having to hire, brief, or record voice talent. One of the best things about Nuance Dragon is that they pursue more natural and expressive speech synthesys to provide life-life audio output. And good news for the developers is that they also provide TTS API to use in the applications or any solutions.

Features:

• It supports HIPAA requirements that are important for security and confidentiality.
• It offers a big library of over 119 voice options and 53 different languages.
• AI-optimized text processing and enhanced expressivity.
• It provides text-to-speech API to use in applications and products.
• It can create a customized or unique voice for the brand.
• Has audio controls for managing or editing the generated audio.
• Dictation and transcribing features available.

Price: Nuance Dragon has 3 plans for individual and 3 plans for enterprise productivity, however, there is not a fixed price for enterprise solutions as it may depend:

• Dragon Professional Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Legal Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Anywhere Mobile: $15/month for both Android and iOS

They also have a free demo and a 30-day money-back guarantee program on every plan.

Cons:

• Not available for Mac devices
• Not much beginner-friendly to use

11. Synthesys

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Synthesys is a popular web application that can help you produce professional AI voiceovers or even AI videos in just a few clicks. It generates clear and natural voiceovers through artificial intelligence that can help you build trust and connection between you and your customers or clients. This unique text-to-speech converter eliminates the robotic and strange sounds generated by AI to the minimum. Furthermore, this online platform can create beautiful AI videos for you with just text which you can share on social media or wherever you like. It also allows you to choose voices from different gender, style, accent, speed, etc. for the speech generated from text.

Features:

• It is a web application, so you can work on your projects from any device anywhere.
• Large library of professional AI voices: 35 female and 30 male to choose from.
• Can be used as both AI Voice Generator or AI Video Generator
• It allows you to use or sell the generated voices or videos with full rights.
• User-friendly interface and easy to use.
• Advanced options available to change speed, gender, style, and accent of the voice.

Price: Synthesys has a total of three subscription plans with a 3-day moneyback guarantee. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a free plan or a free trial version.

• Audio Synthesys plan ($29/month):

Access to 20 real human voices, 66 languages & 254 general voices, and Unlimited voice-overs downloads

• Human Studio Synthesys plan ($39/month):

Access to 73 Humatars, Full video customization, Unlimited downloads, etc.

• Audio and Human Studio Synthesys plan ($59/month):

Unlimited videos and voices downloads, and all previous features included

Cons:

• Limited choices for humatars and voices
• No free trial version available

12. Linguatec Voice Reader

Supported systems: Supports only Windows operating system (all versions)

Basic intro: Linguatec Voice Reader is a downloadable text to speech software for Windows users. It offers a big collection of 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages. Aside from converting text to speech, it can also convert Word documents, emails, ebooks, and pdfs to audio for listening to them on any device. Linguatec Voice Reader Home is specifically designed for private or personal use to listen to any content but it has other specific products like Linguatec Voice Reader Studio for professional purposes and Voice Reader Server for large-scale conversion of text to speech. And, it also has a Voice Reader Web which can automatically convert your website to audio. Therefore, it has got you covered in every aspect.

Features:

• It offers 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages.
• It allows you to convert any word documents, emails, ebooks, or pdfs to audio.
• Text to speech software designed solely for personal usage.
• Intuitive editor to change the speed, volume, and pitch of the audio.
• Installable on Windows, so can be directly accessed without a browser.
• Specific products available for specific purposes like personal use, professional use, large scale use, etc.

Price: Linguatec Voice Reader has a single one-time pricing plan for its every product:

• Voice Reader Home: €49 (approximately $51)
• Voice Reader Studio: €499 (approximately $527)
• Voice Reader Web: €299 (approximately $316)
• Voice Reader Server: Depends on the company’s needs

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Interface is boring and old-fashioned.
• Only one voice and language per license.

13. Resemble AI

Supported systems: Supports Android and iOS devices, and can also be used online

Basic intro: Resemble.ai is professional text-to-speech software that generates realistic AI voices from the text. It can create your own AI voice by recording and cloning your voice data. And, it also comes with API functionality to embed TTS into any of your services or products. With its Resemble fill, it can blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience, and it even has a language dubber that can instantly dub your native voice into other languages. Furthermore, one of its best features is its ability to control the emotions of every word in a sentence which really provides a realistic experience.

Features:

• Voice cloning function to clone your own voice with AI.
• Flexible APIs ready for integration in applications, products, or any services.
• Resemble Fill function to blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience.
• It can instantly dub your native voice into other languages.
• Optimized interface and additional audio control settings.
• It can be accessed from mobile devices too with installable apps.

Price: Resemble AI has three pricing plans according to your need and a free trial:

• Entry ($30/month): For voices that are recorded right on our platform
• Build (Depends on your needs): For your own data, any voice, no script required
• Enterprise (Depends on your needs): For massive scale and custom deployment needs

Cons:

• Limited options for voices and languages
• Not available as a Windows or Mac program

14. WellSaid

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: WellSaid is an AI-powered text-to-speech software that converts text to voice in real-time and it can help you create quality voiceovers for all your digital content easily. It is one of the best voiceover generators that is not only designed for individual use, but also for small teams and large companies to work on together. With WellSaid, you can also customize the output voices, create your own unique voice or even deploy its text-to-speech functionality through API. However, it is kinda limited on the number of voices and languages.

Features:

• Has a well-optimized studio to convert text to audio.
• WellSaid API available to deploy TTS functionality in apps and products.
• It allows you to build your own voices to meet your brand guidelines.
• Suitable for individuals, teams of any size, and even large enterprises.
• Around 50 different voice avatars to choose from.
• High quality and realistic voices.
• Live chat support and rights for commercial usage.

Price: WellSaid has altogether four pricing plans and a free trial:

• Maker ($49/month):

250 downloads, 5 projects, 4 voice avatars

• Creative ($99/month):

750 downloads, 50 projects, 50 voice avatars

• Producer ($199/month):

2500 downloads, Unlimited projects, live chat support

• Team (Not fixed):

Team members, Team projects, Volume licensing, Account manager

Cons:

• Limited number of voice avatars and languages to choose from.
• Lack of features to adjust and edit the audio.

15. TTSReader

Supported systems: Supports iOS and Android devices, and is also available online and as a chrome extension

Basic intro: TTSReader is one of the simplest and best free text-to-speech readers that instantly reads aloud text, pdfs & ebooks with natural-sounding voices. It is a lightweight online application, so it works out of the box without the need to download and log in. Despite being free software, it has some really great features in it. There are various options of natural sounding voices in different languages and different accents, and it also reads aloud documents, and ebooks for you by uploading them. However, it does not allow you to directly download the audio, but you still have the option to record audio to save it in webm format.

Features:

• Simple and easy-to-use interface
• Completely free for personal or general use.
• It allows you to manually add pauses and alter the speed of the voice.
• Has many options for voices including male and female, accents, and languages.
• It reads aloud ebooks, pdfs, or any text files.
• Available for mobile devices for instant access.
• Automatically remembers the preferences of the previous session and also has options for screen recording.

Price: TTSReader is completely free without any pricing plans at all. However, they do have a premium chrome extension and a separate commercial version available for purchase.

Cons:

• Advanced features for audio are not available.
• May not be the best option for commercial purposes

16. Descript

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Descript is an all-in-one video editing, screen recording, transcription, and podcasting tool you can use online. Its podcasting tool can be a great example of Text-to-Speech software that creates quality podcasts from just text. Descript is that one tool that takes podcasting or TTS to whole another level. It uses AI technology that clones your voice and then allows you to convert any text to speech in your own AI-tailored voice. You can then directly edit the audio in real-time by editing texts. But what really separates it from other software are its unique features for adjusting texts, editing audio, adding effects, etc.

Features:

• Not just a TTS software, but also a video editing, recording, and transcription tool.
• Timeline editor for advanced level editing along with cloud media library
• Different audio effects like crossfading, automatic leveling, loudness normalization, etc.
• It can clone your voice with AI to convert text to speech.
• Free podcasting trial available which includes all the features.
• Has advanced features useful for professional podcasters.
• It supports integrations with API for applications or any services.

Price: Descript has a total of three pricing plans and a free trial version:

• Creator: $12/month
• Pro: $24/month
• Enterprise: (Not fixed)

Cons:

• Not originally a TTS software, but can be used as a one.
• Separate plans for podcasting are not available.

17. Wideo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Wideo is originally an online video maker that helps you create promo videos, explainer videos, demo videos, presentations, etc. while its Text to Speech software is another added functionality. But still, Wideo is one of the best free TTS software that lets you easily convert text to audio in a fast and straightforward manner. It also allows you to directly add these voices in Wideo’s video maker. Wideo free Text to Speech software integrates with Google Text-to-Speech API, so the quality of voices is as good as other paid software. One of the best things about Wideo TTS software is that it is simple and easy to use.

Features:

• Free and easy-to-use Text to Speech converter.
• Professional video maker along with TTS functionality.
• A large list of voices and languages to choose from.
• Speed of the generated audio adjustable.
• It allows you to download the audio as an mp3 file for free.

Price: Wideo Text-to-Speech Software is basically free with no specific pricing plans. However, its limit in the number of characters can be removed by purchasing any two of their video maker plans:

• PRO: $39/month
• PRO+: $79/month

Cons:

• Advanced text-to-speech features not available
• Voices sound a bit robotic or unreal
• No separate pricing plans available, so will have to purchase the video maker plans to remove limitations

18. Balabolka

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: Balabolka is a Windows text-to-speech software that has been in this field for a long time. It is old and feels outdated, but still is one of the most capable and useful free text to speech converters. Balabolka packs almost all the necessary features required as a TTS program in its lightweight package of just a few megabytes. This program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API and allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch. Balabolka is also available as a portable version, and as a command-line utility which is a great thing.

Features:

• Lightweight, simple, and completely free to use.
• Can read text from clipboard, and documents, and save the on-screen text as an audio file.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• It uses the pre-installed computer voices of your system.
• Also supports many different text file formats.
• Has options to alter a voice’s parameters, speed, pitch, etc.
• Available for download as a portable and command-line program too.

Price: Balabolka is absolutely free to use without any pricing plans and hidden charges.

Cons:

• Not suitable for large-scale and commercial purposes.
• Only available for Windows operating systems.
• Limited options for voices and languages.

19. iSpeech

Supported systems: Supports iOS, Android, and Online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: iSpeech is a straightforward and easy-to-use online text-to-speech converter that is also available for mobile devices. Its TTS functionality is powered by Speechelo but makes the whole process a lot simpler and easier. It supports various languages for text-to-speech conversion and also provides the options to change the speed of audio and select gender. And, it also supports Embedded and Hosted TTS services along with API integrations to use TTS in any program or service. Therefore, it acts as a simple yet powerful and professional text-to-speech software to create lifelike voiceovers.

Features:

• It supports over 30 different languages.
• Available online as well as for mobile devices (iOS and Android).
• Has options to select gender and choose audio speed.
• Simple and easy-to-use interface.
• Cloud and hosted services along with API integrations available
• Completely free to convert text to speech online and preview

Price: iSpeech is absolutely free to use online, but it has various pricing plans available for additional features like downloading audio, API integration, etc. They have different options like Pay Per Use, Pay Per Install, Creative Pricing, One-time fees, etc. so it actually depends on your needs.

Cons:

• Very limited in voice styles, accents, and tones.
• Not suitable for beginners and general users.

20. TextAloud

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: TextAloud is a Windows text-to-speech software by NextUp technologies that help you easily generate audio for the given text. It is designed to save your time allowing you to be more productive while converting text to speech. It also allows one to convert texts from web pages, documents, and PDFs into natural-sounding speech. And, it includes assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension. TextAloud by NextUp technologies also offers the natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc. And with many other features, it can be considered one of the best TTS software for your Windows device.

Features:

• Lightweight software with straightforward interface.
• It allows the conversion of texts on web pages, documents, and PDFs into speech.
• Assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension.
• It uses the pre-installed voices on the system and also offers natural-sounding Text to Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• Includes a lot of features and options related to TTS.

Price: TextAloud 4 offers a one-time payment for a Single User License at $34.95 and also has a free trial version to test this software. However, it also offers some additional features for extra fees.

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Not the best option for commercial purposes
• User interface can seem a little outdated.

Conclusion

Here, we presented you with a list of Top 20 Best Text-to-Speech Software with all their features and other information you need to know. While all of them are best in their own aspects, you should choose the one that suits your needs. For example, you can go for Balabolka or similar free softwares for basic personal use, or if you want something advanced like AI voice cloning, then you can use Murf, Descript, etc. So it all depends on what you intend to do with a TTS software.

However, we have made it easier for you to choose the best one among these many great softwares by breaking them down in terms of their main features, pricing, compatibility, cons, etc. So decide on the software that is best for you and have a happy time creating amazing voiceovers.

Listening has always been more enjoyable, easier, and faster than reading. We understand better when we are listening. So it is good news for us that our life has been made even easier with the development of TTS technology or Text-to-Speech technology.

As its name suggests, TTS or Text-to-Speech is a technology that can convert texts to speech or voices. In other words, it is a technology that reads aloud any type of digital text so one can just listen to it without having to manually read those texts himself/herself. Text-to-Speech is also known as speech synthesis, which means artificial human speech production.

Though Text-to-Speech might sound like a new technology to most people, it has been here for a long time now. It’s just that only the big companies and some authorities had access to it in the past. But now, we can easily find this technology around us. Some of the popular examples would be audiobooks, read-aloud functions on websites, voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, etc.

While text-to-speech service is widely used for convenience and ease of life, its importance is not just limited to that. This technology has been extremely helpful for those with visible imparities and those who cannot read or write. Not only that, but it also has a great contribution to the field of education, business, and technology itself.

So now that we’re a little familiar with this Text to Speech system, it’s about time we have a look at some of the best Text to Speech software or say, Text to Speech converters. In this article, we’ll be covering the Top 20 Best Text to Speech Software with their price, features, and cons along with the platforms they are available for like Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, and Online:

1. Murf.ai

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Murf.ai is an AI-based voice generator and text to speech converter that is popular for its ability to make studio-quality voiceovers in minutes. Unlike most of the text-to-speech software out there, Murf is focused on creating human-like voices with the help of AI rather than the same old robotic voices. And it’s not just a text-to-speech converter. Its powerful studio allows you to convert speech to editable text, make studio-like quality voiceovers, add audio to videos, etc. Therefore, all these features and its quality service help it rank in the top position on our list.

Features:

• It provides 120+ different types of AI voices for men, and women to use.
• It offers the most natural-sounding AI voices in 20 different languages.
• It has different functionalities aside Text to speech conversion like transcription, making and editing voiceovers, etc.
• It has advanced options like pitch adjustment, adding pauses, emphasizing specific words, speed, etc. to generate the audio as you want.
• It is a simple yet powerful studio for creating, editing, and managing voiceovers and audio.
• It has free grammar and punctuation assistants for your text.
• Free trial allows you to render up to 10 minutes of voice from the text.
• It provides free royalty-free background music to add to videos or voiceovers.

Price: Murf has the following three pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Basic ($13/month):

Unlimited downloads, 24 hours of voice generation per year, Access to 60 voices & 10 languages, etc.

• Pro ($26/month):

96 hours of voice generation per year, 48 hours of transcription per year, Access to 120+ voices & 20 languages, etc.

• Enterprise ($166/month):

5+ users, Unlimited voice generation & transcription, Collaboration and Access Control, Service Agreement, etc.

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too limited in the free version

2. Play.ht

Supported system: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Play.ht is a web application that offers a huge library of AI voice options for converting text to speech. It generates realistic TTS audio using an online AI voice generator and the best synthetic voices from Google, Amazon, IBM & Microsoft. Play.ht can help you create professional voiceovers using AI voices from a collection of over 600 male and female voices available across 60+ different languages and accents. Along with converting text to audio, it can also help you enhance the audio with speech styles, pronunciations, and SSML tags.

Features:

• It uses synthetic voices from Google, Microsoft, IBM, and Amazon.
• Huge library of over 600 AI voices including male and female, and 60+ different languages and accents available.
• It supports exporting in MP3 and WAV format with full SSML support.
• Advanced settings for editing and enhancing the voice generated from text.
• Additional functionalities available like speech styles, multi-voice features, voice inflections, custom pronunciations, etc.
• It gives commercial & broadcast rights to use the generated speech files for commercial and personal use with full authority.

Price: Play.ht has the following four pricing plans plus a free trial:

• Personal ($14.25/month):

For personal use such as learning, proofreading, school projects, etc.

• Professional ($29.25/month):

For content creators, bloggers, and freelancers with commercial intent.

• Growth ($74.25/month):

For teams and small companies looking to grow with audio.

• Business ($149.25/month):

For companies and agencies looking to create audio at scale.

Cons:

• Can be a little advanced and difficult for beginners
• Voices other than English can be inconsistent

3. Notevibes

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Notevibes is online text-to-speech software that can instantly convert your text into natural-sounding speech with AI. It offers over 221 high-quality voices and 25 languages from the most popular providers: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM to choose from. Notevibes can also convert text to audio and create videos with natural-sounding voices. Using it, you can save both your time and money without hiring professional voiceover artists.

Features:

• It generates realistic and natural human-like voices
• Large library of over 221 voices and 25 different languages
• Powerful editor to add pauses in one click, change speed, pitch, etc.
• Ability to control volume and emphasis on specific words.
• It grants you intellectual rights to freely use or sell voices.
• Backups are available for 14 days, so your work is safe.
• Advanced editor and high fidelity speech synthesys

Price: Notevibes has altogether 3 pricing plans plus a free version:

• Personal Pack ($9/month):

For personal use, private learning, and occasional or general purposes

• Commercial Pack ($90/month):

For Commercial use: Youtube, broadcasts, TV, IVR voiceover, and other businesses

• Corporate Pack ($4000/year):

For corporate or large-scale users with additional specific features

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Too large gap between pricing plans

4. Lovo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Lovo.ai is a web-based text to speech software that helps you create perfect voiceovers for audio ads, games, animations, e-learning, etc. It is a next-generation AI voiceover & text to speech converting platform that uses AI and the latest neural network models to generate human-like voices. Lovo offers a unique collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages to choose from, plus, new voices are added on a monthly basis. Its advanced text-to-speech technology provides you the authentic voices that sound very realistic. And Lovo.ai also has the feature of Custom Voice Cloning which lets you create your own customized voice skins.

Features:

• Unique voice collection of 180+ voice skins in 33 different languages, each with unique traits to perfectly fit any content.
• It provides authentic and realistic voices with human emotions.
• Voice cloning technology that requires just 15 minutes of any voice to create the customized voice skins.
• Growing library of voices where new voices are added monthly.
• Voiceover API Integration is also available for the developers to use in their products.
• Well-optimized studio with a smooth interface for easy use.

Price: Lovo Studio offers two pricing plans and one free plan:

• Personal ($17.49/month):

Unlimited access to all voices, the Ability to add BGM and Commercial Rights, Up to 30 downloads per month

• Freelancer ($49.99/month):

Every feature in the Personal plan, Upto 100 downloads/month

Lovo also offers three different API Pricing plans, plus a free trial for 2 weeks without any credit card information:

• Base subscription: $45 per month per 1000 calls
• Overage: $0.04per overage call
• Enterprise license

Cons:

• Not available as a PC or mobile application
• Limits on the number of characters and downloads in paid plans

5. NaturalReader

Supported systems: Supports Windows, iPhone, Android, and online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: NaturalReader is a powerful application that can convert any text or document to audio anytime anywhere. It is one of the best and most popular text-to-speech software available today that can generate high-quality natural-sounding voices. One of its unique features is OCR Technology which reads aloud text from scanned documents or images for you. It can also be used to create audio from the text for commercial purposes with full rights. You can use NaturalReader online, through software, or with the help of its chrome extension.

Features:

• It offers 100+ natural-sounding voices available in 16 different languages.
• Its WebReader allows you to listen to the contents of any website.
• Specific features available for commercial purposes.
• OCR function available that can also read or convert the scanned documents or images into audios.
• With its pronunciation editor, you can manually modify the pronunciation of certain words.
• Specifically designed as a reading aid to help dyslexic readers.

Price: NaturalReader has three simple pricing plans including the free plan:

• Free ($0/month):

20 minutes per day with premium voices, Unlimited use with free voices, Pronunciation editor

• Premium ($9.99/month):

Unlimited use with premium voices, OCR functionality, MP3 conversion, Chrome extension with unlimited premium voices

• Plus ($19/month):

100+ Premium and Plus voices, Chrome extension with 100+ Premium and Plus voices, all the previous features

Cons:

• Free app requires Internet connectivity to access the voices.
• Not available as downloadable software for Mac devices

6. Amazon Polly

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Amazon Polly is a cloud-based service by Amazon that turns text into life-like speech, allowing you to create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. Amazon Polly uses deep learning technologies and AI technology to synthesize realistic human speech in dozens of voices across many different languages. It is really a revolutionary TTS service that offers Neural Text-to-Speech voices in addition to Standard TTS voices that deliver advanced improvements in speech quality through a new machine learning approach. And, one of the best things is that Amazon Polly Brand Voice can create a custom voice for exclusive use.

Features:

• It provides one of the most realistic and natural-sounding voices.
• A large number of options available for voices and languages.
• Supports API integration for applications or any products.
• It can create a custom voice for the exclusive use of your organization.
• Ability to stream audio in real-time or store & redistribute speech.
• Customisation & control options available for speech output.
• It offers a free tier as well as pay-as-you-go pricing.

Price: Amazon Polly offers two different plans for its service:

• AWS Free Tier: Limited but free 5 million characters per month for 12 months
• Pay-as-you-go plan: Depends on your usage but low cost per character converted and unlimited replays

Cons:

• Not available as a desktop or mobile application
• Beginners might have a hard time using it.
• Their pay-as-you-go pricing plan can be a little difficult to understand

7. Voice Dream Reader

Supported systems: Supports Mac and iPhone (also available as a Safari extension)

Basic intro: Voice Dream Reader is a text-to-speech software specifically designed for Mac and devices running iOS. It is one of the best text-to-speech software for Mac and iOS devices that provides over 100 AI voices in about 20 different languages. It not only helps you convert text to audio, but it also reads the content from any Microsoft documents, Webpage, PDFs, etc. for you. Voice Dream Reader is meticulously designed for everyone including people with blindness, dyslexia, low vision, autism, etc. It has tons of features embedded inside it like synchronized highlighting, OCR recognition, library management, visual and audio controls, etc. Plus, it has some really special features for Mac and iOS devices like Safari extension, iCloud sync, etc. which makes it one of the best choices for text-to-speech conversion.

Features:

• It offers a huge library of over 100 AI voices from Ivona, Acapela, NeoSpeech, etc, across 20 different languages.
• It can read aloud content from any documents, and web pages with different reading modes.
• Enhanced audio and visual controls available.
• Specific features like Safari Extension, and iCloud Sync for Mac and iOS devices.
• Additional functionalities like OCR, Synchronized highlighting, Library management, Annotation, etc.
• Designed with people having blindness, dyslexia, autism, etc. in mind.
• It doesn’t require an internet connection.
• Different reputed awards and recognitions received by Voice Dream Reader.

Price: Voice Dream Reader is free to download from Mac App Store while costs $19.99 to download from iOS App Store. Its free version is pretty sufficient and is feature-rich, however, this software also offers in-app purchases on both platforms.

Cons:

• Only available for Mac and iOS devices.
• Offers in-app purchases to remove limitations.

8. Kukarella

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Kukarella is an online Text-to-Speech software powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM that lets you easily create beautiful voiceovers with realistic AI voices. It can be used both as a Text-to-voice software and an Audio-to-text software. With Kukarella, you can also narrate books or scripts with multiple voices which is a beta feature. It offers one of the largest libraries of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents which is truly remarkable. Furthermore, it has a well-designed studio to work on and also includes commercial rights in its plan.

Features:

• It offers one of the largest collections of around 670 voices across 100+ different languages and accents.
• It provides the best AI neural voices with commercial rights included.
• Also works as an Audio Transcription software to transcribe audio, recordings, and videos.
• It includes the Table Reads feature to narrate books or scripts using multiple voices.
• Referral program for bonuses and free credits to use.
• Well-optimized studio with additional effects to use in the output audio like pitch, pause, speed, emphasis, etc.

Price: Kukarella has three different paid pricing plans available with which they also provide a 15-day money-back guarantee to refund your purchase if you’re not satisfied with their service:

• Free ($0/month): For testing purposes
• Pro ($15/month): For creative people
• Premium ($35/month): For film professionals and experts
• Studio ($99/month): For business and large-scale use

Aside from these four pricing plans, Kukarella also offers a Top Ups option to let you purchase additional credits like extra characters for text-to-speech and extra minutes for audio transcription.

Cons:

• Only available as an online application.
• Doesn’t let you clone your own voice.

9. Speechelo

Supported systems: Supports all devices like Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android, and is available online too.

Basic intro: Speechelo is a new cloud-based text-to-speech software that instantly transforms any text into a 100% human-sounding voiceover. Despite being a new product in this huge marketplace, it has gained popularity very quickly due to its awesome text-to-speech conversion ability. All of their voices are said to have the necessary elements and expressions that make a voice sound real. It also claims that 98% of the people hearing a voiceover generated with Speechelo can’t tell if it is a real human voice or an AI-generated voice. However, the best thing about Speechelo is that it is available for all types of devices out there, so it has got you covered everywhere.

Features:

• It offers more than 50 natural-sounding voices in 24 different languages.
• Functionality to add inflections in the voice.
• Different voice styles and tones available.
• Has settings for adjusting the speed and pitch of the voice.
• Additional options to manually add breathing sounds and pauses, or its AI engine can automatically add them on its own.
• Compatible with all major operating systems, so it won’t matter whatever device you have.

Price: Speechelo has only one pricing plan i.e. Founders Special Offer which is basically a one-time payment for only $47 without any recurring monthly fees. On top of that, they provide a “Risk-Free 60 Days Money Back Guarantee” with which you can try Speechelo without any worries. In this one-time subscription plan, you’ll get lifetime updates and support.

Cons:

• No free version or free trial available to try
• Speechelo website might look a bit fishy or scammy

10. Nuance Dragon

Supported systems: Supports Windows, Android & iOS (previously supported Mac too but discontinued)

Basic intro: Nuance Dragon is an AI-based Text-to-Speech technology that leverages neural network techniques to deliver a human-like, engaging and personalized audio. It creates natural-sounding speech in 119 voice options across 53 different languages. With Nuance vocalizer, you can also establish a unique voice for your brand without having to hire, brief, or record voice talent. One of the best things about Nuance Dragon is that they pursue more natural and expressive speech synthesys to provide life-life audio output. And good news for the developers is that they also provide TTS API to use in the applications or any solutions.

Features:

• It supports HIPAA requirements that are important for security and confidentiality.
• It offers a big library of over 119 voice options and 53 different languages.
• AI-optimized text processing and enhanced expressivity.
• It provides text-to-speech API to use in applications and products.
• It can create a customized or unique voice for the brand.
• Has audio controls for managing or editing the generated audio.
• Dictation and transcribing features available.

Price: Nuance Dragon has 3 plans for individual and 3 plans for enterprise productivity, however, there is not a fixed price for enterprise solutions as it may depend:

• Dragon Professional Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Legal Individual: Starting at $500
• Dragon Anywhere Mobile: $15/month for both Android and iOS

They also have a free demo and a 30-day money-back guarantee program on every plan.

Cons:

• Not available for Mac devices
• Not much beginner-friendly to use

11. Synthesys

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic Intro: Synthesys is a popular web application that can help you produce professional AI voiceovers or even AI videos in just a few clicks. It generates clear and natural voiceovers through artificial intelligence that can help you build trust and connection between you and your customers or clients. This unique text-to-speech converter eliminates the robotic and strange sounds generated by AI to the minimum. Furthermore, this online platform can create beautiful AI videos for you with just text which you can share on social media or wherever you like. It also allows you to choose voices from different gender, style, accent, speed, etc. for the speech generated from text.

Features:

• It is a web application, so you can work on your projects from any device anywhere.
• Large library of professional AI voices: 35 female and 30 male to choose from.
• Can be used as both AI Voice Generator or AI Video Generator
• It allows you to use or sell the generated voices or videos with full rights.
• User-friendly interface and easy to use.
• Advanced options available to change speed, gender, style, and accent of the voice.

Price: Synthesys has a total of three subscription plans with a 3-day moneyback guarantee. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a free plan or a free trial version.

• Audio Synthesys plan ($29/month):

Access to 20 real human voices, 66 languages & 254 general voices, and Unlimited voice-overs downloads

• Human Studio Synthesys plan ($39/month):

Access to 73 Humatars, Full video customization, Unlimited downloads, etc.

• Audio and Human Studio Synthesys plan ($59/month):

Unlimited videos and voices downloads, and all previous features included

Cons:

• Limited choices for humatars and voices
• No free trial version available

12. Linguatec Voice Reader

Supported systems: Supports only Windows operating system (all versions)

Basic intro: Linguatec Voice Reader is a downloadable text to speech software for Windows users. It offers a big collection of 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages. Aside from converting text to speech, it can also convert Word documents, emails, ebooks, and pdfs to audio for listening to them on any device. Linguatec Voice Reader Home is specifically designed for private or personal use to listen to any content but it has other specific products like Linguatec Voice Reader Studio for professional purposes and Voice Reader Server for large-scale conversion of text to speech. And, it also has a Voice Reader Web which can automatically convert your website to audio. Therefore, it has got you covered in every aspect.

Features:

• It offers 67 natural-sounding voices in 45 different languages.
• It allows you to convert any word documents, emails, ebooks, or pdfs to audio.
• Text to speech software designed solely for personal usage.
• Intuitive editor to change the speed, volume, and pitch of the audio.
• Installable on Windows, so can be directly accessed without a browser.
• Specific products available for specific purposes like personal use, professional use, large scale use, etc.

Price: Linguatec Voice Reader has a single one-time pricing plan for its every product:

• Voice Reader Home: €49 (approximately $51)
• Voice Reader Studio: €499 (approximately $527)
• Voice Reader Web: €299 (approximately $316)
• Voice Reader Server: Depends on the company’s needs

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Interface is boring and old-fashioned.
• Only one voice and language per license.

13. Resemble AI

Supported systems: Supports Android and iOS devices, and can also be used online

Basic intro: Resemble.ai is professional text-to-speech software that generates realistic AI voices from the text. It can create your own AI voice by recording and cloning your voice data. And, it also comes with API functionality to embed TTS into any of your services or products. With its Resemble fill, it can blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience, and it even has a language dubber that can instantly dub your native voice into other languages. Furthermore, one of its best features is its ability to control the emotions of every word in a sentence which really provides a realistic experience.

Features:

• Voice cloning function to clone your own voice with AI.
• Flexible APIs ready for integration in applications, products, or any services.
• Resemble Fill function to blend human and synthetic voices for a seamless experience.
• It can instantly dub your native voice into other languages.
• Optimized interface and additional audio control settings.
• It can be accessed from mobile devices too with installable apps.

Price: Resemble AI has three pricing plans according to your need and a free trial:

• Entry ($30/month): For voices that are recorded right on our platform
• Build (Depends on your needs): For your own data, any voice, no script required
• Enterprise (Depends on your needs): For massive scale and custom deployment needs

Cons:

• Limited options for voices and languages
• Not available as a Windows or Mac program

14. WellSaid

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: WellSaid is an AI-powered text-to-speech software that converts text to voice in real-time and it can help you create quality voiceovers for all your digital content easily. It is one of the best voiceover generators that is not only designed for individual use, but also for small teams and large companies to work on together. With WellSaid, you can also customize the output voices, create your own unique voice or even deploy its text-to-speech functionality through API. However, it is kinda limited on the number of voices and languages.

Features:

• Has a well-optimized studio to convert text to audio.
• WellSaid API available to deploy TTS functionality in apps and products.
• It allows you to build your own voices to meet your brand guidelines.
• Suitable for individuals, teams of any size, and even large enterprises.
• Around 50 different voice avatars to choose from.
• High quality and realistic voices.
• Live chat support and rights for commercial usage.

Price: WellSaid has altogether four pricing plans and a free trial:

• Maker ($49/month):

250 downloads, 5 projects, 4 voice avatars

• Creative ($99/month):

750 downloads, 50 projects, 50 voice avatars

• Producer ($199/month):

2500 downloads, Unlimited projects, live chat support

• Team (Not fixed):

Team members, Team projects, Volume licensing, Account manager

Cons:

• Limited number of voice avatars and languages to choose from.
• Lack of features to adjust and edit the audio.

15. TTSReader

Supported systems: Supports iOS and Android devices, and is also available online and as a chrome extension

Basic intro: TTSReader is one of the simplest and best free text-to-speech readers that instantly reads aloud text, pdfs & ebooks with natural-sounding voices. It is a lightweight online application, so it works out of the box without the need to download and log in. Despite being free software, it has some really great features in it. There are various options of natural sounding voices in different languages and different accents, and it also reads aloud documents, and ebooks for you by uploading them. However, it does not allow you to directly download the audio, but you still have the option to record audio to save it in webm format.

Features:

• Simple and easy-to-use interface
• Completely free for personal or general use.
• It allows you to manually add pauses and alter the speed of the voice.
• Has many options for voices including male and female, accents, and languages.
• It reads aloud ebooks, pdfs, or any text files.
• Available for mobile devices for instant access.
• Automatically remembers the preferences of the previous session and also has options for screen recording.

Price: TTSReader is completely free without any pricing plans at all. However, they do have a premium chrome extension and a separate commercial version available for purchase.

Cons:

• Advanced features for audio are not available.
• May not be the best option for commercial purposes

16. Descript

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Descript is an all-in-one video editing, screen recording, transcription, and podcasting tool you can use online. Its podcasting tool can be a great example of Text-to-Speech software that creates quality podcasts from just text. Descript is that one tool that takes podcasting or TTS to whole another level. It uses AI technology that clones your voice and then allows you to convert any text to speech in your own AI-tailored voice. You can then directly edit the audio in real-time by editing texts. But what really separates it from other software are its unique features for adjusting texts, editing audio, adding effects, etc.

Features:

• Not just a TTS software, but also a video editing, recording, and transcription tool.
• Timeline editor for advanced level editing along with cloud media library
• Different audio effects like crossfading, automatic leveling, loudness normalization, etc.
• It can clone your voice with AI to convert text to speech.
• Free podcasting trial available which includes all the features.
• Has advanced features useful for professional podcasters.
• It supports integrations with API for applications or any services.

Price: Descript has a total of three pricing plans and a free trial version:

• Creator: $12/month
• Pro: $24/month
• Enterprise: (Not fixed)

Cons:

• Not originally a TTS software, but can be used as a one.
• Separate plans for podcasting are not available.

17. Wideo

Supported systems: It is a cloud-based platform, therefore can be used online on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone.

Basic intro: Wideo is originally an online video maker that helps you create promo videos, explainer videos, demo videos, presentations, etc. while its Text to Speech software is another added functionality. But still, Wideo is one of the best free TTS software that lets you easily convert text to audio in a fast and straightforward manner. It also allows you to directly add these voices in Wideo’s video maker. Wideo free Text to Speech software integrates with Google Text-to-Speech API, so the quality of voices is as good as other paid software. One of the best things about Wideo TTS software is that it is simple and easy to use.

Features:

• Free and easy-to-use Text to Speech converter.
• Professional video maker along with TTS functionality.
• A large list of voices and languages to choose from.
• Speed of the generated audio adjustable.
• It allows you to download the audio as an mp3 file for free.

Price: Wideo Text-to-Speech Software is basically free with no specific pricing plans. However, its limit in the number of characters can be removed by purchasing any two of their video maker plans:

• PRO: $39/month
• PRO+: $79/month

Cons:

• Advanced text-to-speech features not available
• Voices sound a bit robotic or unreal
• No separate pricing plans available, so will have to purchase the video maker plans to remove limitations

18. Balabolka

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: Balabolka is a Windows text-to-speech software that has been in this field for a long time. It is old and feels outdated, but still is one of the most capable and useful free text to speech converters. Balabolka packs almost all the necessary features required as a TTS program in its lightweight package of just a few megabytes. This program uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API and allows to alter a voice’s parameters, including rate and pitch. Balabolka is also available as a portable version, and as a command-line utility which is a great thing.

Features:

• Lightweight, simple, and completely free to use.
• Can read text from clipboard, and documents, and save the on-screen text as an audio file.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• It uses the pre-installed computer voices of your system.
• Also supports many different text file formats.
• Has options to alter a voice’s parameters, speed, pitch, etc.
• Available for download as a portable and command-line program too.

Price: Balabolka is absolutely free to use without any pricing plans and hidden charges.

Cons:

• Not suitable for large-scale and commercial purposes.
• Only available for Windows operating systems.
• Limited options for voices and languages.

19. iSpeech

Supported systems: Supports iOS, Android, and Online (also available as a chrome extension)

Basic intro: iSpeech is a straightforward and easy-to-use online text-to-speech converter that is also available for mobile devices. Its TTS functionality is powered by Speechelo but makes the whole process a lot simpler and easier. It supports various languages for text-to-speech conversion and also provides the options to change the speed of audio and select gender. And, it also supports Embedded and Hosted TTS services along with API integrations to use TTS in any program or service. Therefore, it acts as a simple yet powerful and professional text-to-speech software to create lifelike voiceovers.

Features:

• It supports over 30 different languages.
• Available online as well as for mobile devices (iOS and Android).
• Has options to select gender and choose audio speed.
• Simple and easy-to-use interface.
• Cloud and hosted services along with API integrations available
• Completely free to convert text to speech online and preview

Price: iSpeech is absolutely free to use online, but it has various pricing plans available for additional features like downloading audio, API integration, etc. They have different options like Pay Per Use, Pay Per Install, Creative Pricing, One-time fees, etc. so it actually depends on your needs.

Cons:

• Very limited in voice styles, accents, and tones.
• Not suitable for beginners and general users.

20. TextAloud

Supported systems: Supports all versions of Windows

Basic intro: TextAloud is a Windows text-to-speech software by NextUp technologies that help you easily generate audio for the given text. It is designed to save your time allowing you to be more productive while converting text to speech. It also allows one to convert texts from web pages, documents, and PDFs into natural-sounding speech. And, it includes assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension. TextAloud by NextUp technologies also offers the natural-sounding Text-to-Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc. And with many other features, it can be considered one of the best TTS software for your Windows device.

Features:

• Lightweight software with straightforward interface.
• It allows the conversion of texts on web pages, documents, and PDFs into speech.
• Assistive technology for people with Dyslexia to improve reading and comprehension.
• It uses the pre-installed voices on the system and also offers natural-sounding Text to Speech voices from companies like Acapela, Ivona, Cerence, etc.
• It uses Microsoft’s Speech API and also includes a spelling checker.
• Includes a lot of features and options related to TTS.

Price: TextAloud 4 offers a one-time payment for a Single User License at $34.95 and also has a free trial version to test this software. However, it also offers some additional features for extra fees.

Cons:

• Only available for Windows devices
• Not the best option for commercial purposes
• User interface can seem a little outdated.

Conclusion

Here, we presented you with a list of Top 20 Best Text-to-Speech Software with all their features and other information you need to know. While all of them are best in their own aspects, you should choose the one that suits your needs. For example, you can go for Balabolka or similar free softwares for basic personal use, or if you want something advanced like AI voice cloning, then you can use Murf, Descript, etc. So it all depends on what you intend to do with a TTS software.

However, we have made it easier for you to choose the best one among these many great softwares by breaking them down in terms of their main features, pricing, compatibility, cons, etc. So decide on the software that is best for you and have a happy time creating amazing voiceovers.

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