ElevenLabs’ AI Reader app can now narrate textual content in 32 languages

AI audio startup ElevenLabs has now made its text-to-speech Reader app accessible the world over, including help for 32 totally different languages — together with Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.

There’s a wide selection of AI-generated voices accessible for the text-to-speech instrument, together with deceased celebrities like Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds. The few I’ve listened to are spectacular sufficient to keep away from sounding overly robotic. ElevenLabs mentioned their respective heirs had been “excited to see their’ legacies dwell on” at launch, so these voices are presumably licensed.

The reader app is free to obtain and use, and gained’t devour credit from the broader ElevenLabs web-based subscription plan. The corporate is, nonetheless, planning to “ultimately launch some premium model of the app,” however is promising to have a “beneficiant free plan” accessible when that occurs.