ElevenLabs generates natural-sounding speech from text, clones voices with consent and dubs audio and video into many languages.
- Very natural voices
- Voice cloning and dubbing
- Many languages
- Commercial use needs a paid plan
- Character-based pricing
Best AI voice generators for creators
AI voice tools turn a script into narration, dub your videos into other languages or fix a fluffed word without re-recording. Quality is now good enough that the licence and the voice-cloning rules matter as much as the sound.
Nub’s pick
Try ElevenLabsElevenLabs, for narration for faceless videos and dubbing into other languages
ElevenLabs generates natural-sounding speech from text, clones voices with consent and dubs audio and video into many languages.
How to choose
- Commercial rights
- Free tiers often exclude monetised use. Check before you publish.
- Cloning your own voice
- Useful for fixes and dubbing; check the consent and verification process.
- Languages
- For dubbing, test the target language with your own script, not the demo.
- The usual mistake
- Using a stock AI voice that viewers already recognise from a thousand other channels.
At a glance
| Tool | Best for | Free plan | How it charges |
|---|---|---|---|
| ElevenLabs | Narration for faceless videos and dubbing into other languages. | Yes | Free tier, then monthly plans by characters |
| Murf | Course and explainer narration synced to slides. | Check site | Monthly or yearly plans |
| Speechify | Narration and listening to research on the go. | Check site | Free tier, then subscriptions |
| Descript | Talking-head videos, interviews and video podcasts. | Yes | Free tier, then monthly subscriptions by usage |
| Revid | Faceless TikTok, Reels and Shorts channels posting daily. | Check site | Subscription plans and credit packs |
| HeyGen | Course lessons and explainers when you cannot be on camera, and dubbing. | Check site | Monthly plans by video minutes |
| Fliki | Turning written content into narrated videos. | Check site | Monthly plans by credits |
| Async | Audio podcasters who want one simple app. | Check site | Free and paid plans |
| AudioPen | Capturing ideas on a walk and turning them into drafts. | Check site | Free tier, then yearly or lifetime plans |
The picks
Murf turns scripts into voiceovers with a studio that syncs narration to slides and video, aimed at training, courses and explainers.
- Studio that syncs voice to visuals
- Many voices and accents
- Good for structured lessons
- Voices less expressive for entertainment
- Downloads and rights on paid plans
Speechify reads documents aloud with natural AI voices and offers a studio for voiceovers, dubbing and AI avatars.
- Natural voices
- Apps on every device
- Voiceover studio
- Studio and reader are separate products
- Commercial use on paid plans
Descript transcribes your recording and lets you cut it like a document: delete a sentence and the video follows. It also records, removes filler words and cleans up audio.
- Text-based editing is very fast for spoken content
- Filler-word removal and audio clean-up built in
- Records screen, camera and remote guests
- Less suited to heavy b-roll, effects or colour work
- Large projects can feel slow on older machines
Revid generates short vertical videos from a prompt, a script, an article or an existing video, with voiceover, visuals and captions, aimed at faceless and high-volume short-form channels.
- Script-to-video in one step
- Voiceover and captions included
- Made for posting volume on short-form
- Generated visuals need checking for fit
- Credit-based, so cost depends on output
HeyGen makes presenter videos with AI avatars, including a digital twin of yourself, and translates videos into other languages with lip-sync.
- Realistic avatars, including your own
- Video translation with lip-sync
- Quick to update a lesson without reshooting
- Avatars still read as AI to many viewers
- Pricing tied to minutes of video
Fliki converts scripts, blog posts or ideas into videos with AI voiceovers in many languages and stock visuals.
- Wide choice of AI voices and languages
- Blog-to-video
- Quick to learn
- Visuals depend on stock media
- Credit-based limits
Async (formerly Podcastle) combines remote recording, audio editing, AI voices and clean-up tools for podcasters.
- Recording and editing together
- AI audio clean-up
- AI voices for fixes
- Fewer advanced editing features
- Video features less developed
AudioPen turns rambling voice notes into clear written text you can use as drafts, posts or outlines.
- Very fast to capture
- Clean summaries of messy speech
- Several writing styles
- Short notes work best
- Light on editing features