The 6 Best AI Voice Generators 2026 (5 Free Options)

With an AI voice generator (also called AI speech generator), you can convert text into spoken language.

You can use it to have texts read aloud while commuting in the car or on the train, or to narrate your blog articles or social media posts and turn them into podcasts or videos.

To save even more time, you can combine an AI voice generator with an AI text generator or AI video generator.

Some tools even allow voice cloning, meaning you can clone your own voice.

In this article, we present the six best AI voice generators that we have objectively evaluated and compared based on criteria such as number and quality of voices, audio quality, price, and feature set.

Five of the six AI voice generators offer free basic versions that allow you to extensively test the tools or even complete smaller projects.

AI Voice Generators Comparison

AI Voice Generators in Detail

Below you'll find all AI voice generators in detail. With speech samples, screenshots, and comprehensive evaluation of usability, voice quality, and feature set:

1. Fliki

Fliki is the AI voice generator I currently use the most and that performed best in our test. And there are many reasons for this.

First, Fliki offers an exceptional selection of voices across 75+ languages, including excellent multilingual support:

Second, Fliki offers excellent voice quality across all supported languages. The standard voices are qualitatively comparable to those from Murf.ai and Play.ht (and partially overlap - Amala from Fliki.ai is the same Amala as from PlayHT).

Unlike other AI voice generators, Fliki also offers 2000+ premium voices that are significantly better in quality than the standard voices, as well as "Studio Voices" recorded by real people.

Here's a speech sample using the first three paragraphs of Franz Kafka's "The Castle":

The only other provider with comparable premium voice quality is Murf.ai, though with a more limited selection.

Third, Fliki, alongside ElevenLabs, is one of the few tools that offers easy and quick voice cloning in multiple languages. Since 2025, you fortunately only need the Standard plan for $21 per month, not a Premium package like before:

Other AI voice generators also offer voice cloning, but usually only on request (which translates to: very expensive!) or only in English.

Fliki also offers a good free version that lets you create 5 minutes of audio per month and extensively test the tool.

Unfortunately, premium voices (called "Ultra realistic voices" by Fliki) are only available with the Premium plan starting at $66 per month. However, this includes triple the voice cloning capacity and offers excellent value with 10 hours of audio and video generation per month.

2. ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs is one of the currently best and most well-known text-to-speech tools and impressed us with its extensive feature set and AI voice quality, earning it second place.

With ElevenLabs, you can not only convert text to speech using pre-made AI voices but also clone your own voice - a feature only Fliki also offers.

We've already discussed the high quality of the voices. They can be used for various applications, such as voice-overs for YouTube videos or creating artificial voices for virtual assistants.

They sound (mostly) natural and can often only be distinguished from human voices if you listen more closely.

ElevenLabs' user interface is also intuitive and user-friendly. You can either use one of the pre-made AI voices or upload and clone your own voice:

Voice cloning is a special highlight of ElevenLabs. You can upload a recording of your own voice and the software creates an artificial voice that sounds very similar to yours.

This process is simple and straightforward. The quality of the result naturally depends on the quality of the original recording. The clearer your recording is, the better the result will be.

ElevenLabs offers various pricing packages:

There's a free version that allows you to use up to 10,000 characters and 10 minutes of text-to-speech per month.

For just $4.17 per month, the Starter package gives you instant voice cloning and up to 30,000 characters per month. There are also more expensive packages with more features and larger character limits, e.g., for larger companies.

3. Murf.ai

Murf.ai ranks as the third-best voice generator in our test:

The premium voices are high quality and at least as good as Fliki's, if not a touch better.

Where Murf.ai clearly loses to Fliki is voice selection. While Fliki offers 2000+ voices across 75+ languages, Murf.ai offers a more limited selection of 120+ voices in 20+ languages:

Overall, you can choose from 120+ voices in 20+ languages for speech generation. As with all AI voice generators, the best and most voices are available in English.

A unique feature of Murf.ai is the "AI Voice Changer," which can transform a lower-quality recording of your own into a professionally recorded one. It removes background noise, stuttering, or filler words like "um" and "uh."

Murf.ai also scores with its user interface and versatile customization options. It offers a few more adjustment options than Fliki, e.g., you can set the pitch and pause length for each speech block (the latter is only possible for the entire audio file in Fliki).

Murf.ai has a good free tier that lets you create 10 minutes of audio and access all voices. That's enough to thoroughly test the tool.

4. PlayHT

PlayHT is a well-known and popular AI voice generator that achieves a weaker fourth place in our test.

It offers a massive selection of 900+ voices in 142 languages. 145 are English and available with many different accents.

Of all AI voice generators, it offers the most modern and sleek user interface and includes voice cloning in all plans:

A major drawback, unfortunately:

While PlayHT offers an impressive 900+ voices across 142 languages, the premium voices (called "Ultra Realistic Voices" by PlayHT) are currently only available in English.

Additionally, non-English voices can only be used in the old legacy interface, which is somewhat dated and has fewer features.

Voice cloning is currently also only available in English, which is unfortunate.

All in all, PlayHT is a good choice if you primarily work in English or need access to a huge variety of languages with standard-quality voices.

5. Speechify

Speechify is a comprehensive tool with various text-to-speech functions:

Speechify's main function is reading books or documents in many different file formats. There are also apps for Android, iOS, and Mac. Speechify also offers a large library of audiobooks.

Unfortunately, the "read aloud" function has limited quality in non-English languages. While there are many voices available, only some offer acceptable quality for professional use.

However, this article isn't about the read-aloud function but about Speechify AI Voice Studio. In addition to creating AI voice-overs, it can clone voices, generate subtitles, and includes an AI video generator.

The user interface is intuitive and modern. In addition to basic settings, the audio editor offers many advanced options, such as emphasizing individual words, pitch, and pause settings:

Unfortunately, where Speechify falls short is non-English AI voice quality:

Speechify offers 200+ voices across 30+ languages, but lacks the premium voice options that competitors like Fliki provide.

All in all, Speechify lands in fifth place because the non-English voice quality and interface are slightly better than LOVO, the last-placed AI voice generator.

6. LOVO

LOVO can compete with other AI speech tools in many respects:

It has a modern and user-friendly interface and offers 500+ voices across 100+ languages. The voice quality of English voices is very good.

Nevertheless, LOVO only takes last place in our test. The problem is the quality of non-English voices, as LOVO, similar to PlayHT, doesn't offer premium voices for languages other than English.

The available standard voices sound slightly monotone and robotic, as you can hear in the following sample:

Additionally, LOVO is the only tested AI voice generator that doesn't offer a free tier, only a 14-day trial, and has a somewhat worse price-performance ratio than the other tools.

In the Basic plan, available from $24 per month, you only get 2 hours of voice generation time. With Fliki, you pay only $6 per month for the Basic plan, which also includes 2 hours.

Premium vs. Standard Voices

Many providers distinguish between premium voices (also called "Pro" or "Ultra realistic") and standard voices.

I would always recommend a provider and plan that includes premium voices, like Fliki Premium or Murf.ai Pro. These sound noticeably more natural, offer better intonation, sound less monotone and robotic, and have higher recording quality.

This is because they were trained with more and higher-quality audio material than standard voices.

Of course, premium voices still don't quite match human voice-over artists, especially for fiction or texts with high dialogue content. But AI voice generation is getting better and will increasingly replace voice-over artists in the medium to long term.