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#1 Text To Speech (TTS) Reader Online

Proudly serving millions of users since 2015

Type or upload any text, file, website & book for listening online, proofreading, reading-along or generating professional mp3 voice-overs.

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Play Text Out Loud

Reads out loud plain text, files, e-books and websites. Remembers text & caret position, so you can come back to listening later, unlimited length, recording and more.

Create Humanlike Voiceovers

The simplest most robust & affordable AI voice-over generating tool online. Mix voices, languages & speeds. Listen before recording. Unlimited!

Additional Text-To-Speech Solutions

Turns your articles, PDFs, emails, etc. into podcasts, so you can listen to it on your own podcast player when convenient, with all the advantages that come with your podcast app.

SpeechNinja says what you type in real time. It enables people with speech difficulties to speak out loud using synthesized voice (AAC) and more.

Battle tested for years, serving millions of users, especially good for very long texts.

Need to read a webpage? Simply paste its URL here & click play. Leave empty to read about the Beatles 🎸

Books & Stories

Listen to some of the best stories ever written. We have them right here. Want to upload your own? Use the main player to upload epub files.

Simply paste any URL (link to a page) and it will import & read it out loud.

Chrome Extension

Reads out loud webpages, directly from within the page.

TTSReader for mobile - iOS or Android. Includes exporting audio to mp3 files.

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TTSReader reads out loud texts, webpages, pdfs & ebooks with natural sounding voices. Works out of the box. No need to download or install. No sign in required. Simply click 'play' and enjoy listening right in your browser. TTSReader remembers your text and position between sessions, so you can continue listening right where you left. Recording the generated speech is supported as well. Works offline, so you can use it at home, in the office, on the go, driving or taking a walk. Listening to textual content using TTSReader enables multitasking, reading on the go, improved comprehension and more. With support for multiple languages, it can be used for unlimited use cases .

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Main Use Cases

Listen to great content.

Most of the world's content is in textual form. Being able to listen to it - is huge! In that sense, TTSReader has a huge advantage over podcasts. You choose your content - out of an infinite variety - that includes humanity's entire knowledge and art richness. Listen to lectures, to PDF files. Paste or upload any text from anywhere, edit it if needed, and listen to it anywhere and anytime.

Proofreading

One of the best ways to catch errors in your writing is to listen to it being read aloud. By using TTSReader for proofreading, you can catch errors that you might have missed while reading silently, allowing you to improve the quality and accuracy of your written content. Errors can be in sentence structure, punctuation, and grammar, but also in your essay's structure, order and content.

Listen to web pages

TTSReader can be used to read out loud webpages in two different ways. 1. Using the regular player - paste the URL and click play. The website's content will be imported into the player. (2) Using our Chrome extension to listen to pages without leaving the page . Listening to web pages with TTSReader can provide a more accessible, convenient, and efficient way of consuming online content.

Turn ebooks into audiobooks

Upload any ebook file of epub format - and TTSReader will read it out loud for you, effectively turning it into an audiobook alternative. You can find thousands of epub books for free, available for download on Project Gutenberg's site, which is an open library for free ebooks.

Read along for speed & comprehension

TTSReader enables read along by highlighting the sentence being read and automatically scrolling to keep it in view. This way you can follow with your own eyes - in parallel to listening to it. This can boost reading speed and improve comprehension.

Generate audio files from text

TTSReader enables exporting the synthesized speech with a single click. This is available currently only on Windows and requires TTSReader’s premium . Adhering to the commercial terms some of the voices may be used commercially for publishing, such as narrating videos.

Accessibility, dyslexia, etc.

For individuals with visual impairments or reading difficulties, listening to textual content, lectures, articles & web pages can be an essential tool for accessing & comprehending information.

Language learning

TTSReader can read out text in multiple languages, providing learners with listening as well as speaking practice. By listening to the text being read aloud, learners can improve their comprehension skills and pronunciation.

Kids - stories & learning

Kids love stories! And if you can read them stories - it's definitely the best! But, if you can't, let TTSReader read them stories for you. Set the right voice and speed, that is appropriate for their comprehension level. For kids who are at the age of learning to read - this can also be an effective tool to strengthen that skill, as it highlights every sentence being read.

Main Features

Ttsreader is a free text to speech reader that supports all modern browsers, including chrome, firefox and safari..

Includes multiple languages and accents. If on Chrome - you will get access to Google's voices as well. Super easy to use - no download, no login required. Here are some more features

Fun, Online, Free. Listen to great content

Drag, drop & play (or directly copy text & play). That’s it. No downloads. No logins. No passwords. No fuss. Simply fun to use and listen to great content. Great for listening in the background. Great for proof-reading. Great for kids and more. Learn more, including a YouTube we made, here .

Multilingual, Natural Voices

We facilitate high-quality natural-sounding voices from different sources. There are male & female voices, in different accents and different languages. Choose the voice you like, insert text, click play to generate the synthesized speech and enjoy listening.

Exit, Come Back & Play from Where You Stopped

TTSReader remembers the article and last position when paused, even if you close the browser. This way, you can come back to listening right where you previously left. Works on Chrome & Safari on mobile too. Ideal for listening to articles.

Vs. Recorded Podcasts

In many aspects, synthesized speech has advantages over recorded podcasts. Here are some: First of all - you have unlimited - free - content. That includes high-quality articles and books, that are not available on podcasts. Second - it’s free. Third - it uses almost no data - so it’s available offline too, and you save money. If you like listening on the go, as while driving or walking - get our free Android Text Reader App .

Read PDF Files, Texts & Websites

TTSReader extracts the text from pdf files, and reads it out loud. Also useful for simply copying text from pdf to anywhere. In addition, it highlights the text currently being read - so you can follow with your eyes. If you specifically want to listen to websites - such as blogs, news, wiki - you should get our free extension for Chrome

Export Speech to Audio Files

TTSReader enables exporting the synthesized speech to mp3 audio files. This is available currently only on Windows, and requires ttsreader’s premium .

Pricing & Plans

• Online text to speech player
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AI Narrator

Generate lifelike narrations with ai.

Have your written content converted into natural-sounding speech with our advanced AI narrator. Choose from over 100 voices across 130 languages and dialects, like English, Spanish, Chinese, Dutch and more. Tweak your audio to perfection to create a unique voice that embodies your style and brand, thanks to our groundbreaking AI voice narrator. Just type your text, choose a language and a voice, and have it read aloud by male, female, or even child voices with authentic accents and human-like intonation that is indistinguishable from real humans. Create professionally narrated video or audio content at studio quality right in your browser. 

Go from text to voice instantly with our AI Narrator

Dazzle your audience and boost engagement with our ready-to-use AI voices, designed to flawlessly narrate any written content as if it were produced in a professional studio. With Flixier AI voice narrator, handpick and customize any AI voice of your choice, seamlessly add it to your videos, and edit it all together.

Over 100 AI voices to choose from

Explore our diverse selection of over 100 female, male, and child AI voice options. Listen to voice previews and discover the perfect voice to breathe life into your scripts, marketing briefs, books, learning materials, and more. Turbocharge your content creation journey whether you're a video editor, social media creator, podcaster, narrator, or business professional.

Generate voice overs in more than 130 languages

Expand your content's reach beyond borders with just one click. Reach global audiences with Flixier's AI narrator tool and quickly generate narrations in more than 130 languages and dialects that sound authentic in Spanish, French, Hindi, or any other language of your choice. 

Craft flawless narrations with ease

Perfect your voice overs with our powerful  audio enhancer . Enhance your audio with background music, sound effects, and seamless fade-in and fade-out transitions. Trim unwanted parts and adjust the speech rate and volume to create a tailored listening experience for your audience.

How to use our AI Narrator:

Open flixier.

Click on the  Get Started button above to open Flixier in your browser. Then, easily import your media from your device or any other cloud storage service.

Generate voice overs with AI

To convert your text into speech using our AI narrator, simply click on the  Import button and choose the  Text-to-Speech  feature. Then, type or paste your text, select a language from the drop-down menu, and choose an AI narrator voice. Preview each voice using the  Listen option to pick your favorite, then click on  Add to My Media to generate your voiceover and automatically add it to your Library. Before exporting your project, you can explore Flixier's full range of audio and video editing features.

Save or share

Thanks to advanced integrations, you can save your narrations on your device as MP3 or MP4 by clicking  Export . You can store them in your OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox and even publish them directly on popular social media channels along with your video.

Why use Flixier as an AI Narrator:

An ai voice narrator for all your online content.

Enhance your YouTube videos, TikTok clips, Instagram Reels, or posts with AI voices that sound just like humans. Leverage our AI video narration tool to easily produce marketing ads and campaigns that showcase your products or services without the hassle of recording audio or video.

Record and translate using AI narrator voice

Are you seeking an authentic voice to improve your audio translations? With Flixier, you can easily record yourself directly in your browser using your device's microphone. Then, you can generate an accurate transcript of your recordings and transform it into compelling text-to-speech voiceovers in almost any language you prefer.

Add and edit subtitles with the same tool

Take advantage of Flixier's video editing toolkit to its full potential. Produce lifelike voiceovers with unique intonations and accents and complement them with fully customizable subtitles and captions. With Flixier, you have complete control over your subtitles, from font styles and colors to sizes and placements. Your message will be conveyed, even with the sound off.

Create and publish content faster

Say goodbye to the hassle of switching between different platforms to edit and share your content. From GIFs to memes, Insta Reels to YouTube tutorials, or captivating ads, you can create it all effortlessly and conveniently share your masterpieces with your audience on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube directly from Flixier. 

What people say about Flixier

I'm so relieved I found Flixier. I have a YouTube channel with over 700k subscribers and Flixier allows me to collaborate seamlessly with my team, they can work from any device at any time plus, renders are cloud powered and super super fast on any computer.

My main criteria for an editor was that the interface is familiar and most importantly that the renders were in the cloud and super fast. Flixier more than delivered in both. I've now been using it daily to edit Facebook videos for my 1M follower page.

I’ve been looking for a solution like Flixier for years. Now that my virtual team and I can edit projects together on the cloud with Flixier, it tripled my company’s video output! Super easy to use and unbelievably quick exports.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is voice ai safe.

Absolutely! Flixier provides a wide range of over 100 AI voices that you can use to create voiceovers in over 130 languages effortlessly. It's perfect for educational content, audiobooks, product demonstrations, advertisements, YouTube tutorials, travel vlogs, business pitches, instructional videos, and much more!

How to tell if a voice is AI?

AI voices can often sound robotic and have strange pronunciation, with awkwardly long pauses. However, with Flixier, you don't have to worry about any of that. Flixier offers over 100 AI voices with human intonations and authentic accents in more than 130 languages and dialects that you can't distinguish from real humans.

Where does the AI voice come from?

Flixier's AI voice narrator utilizes the latest AI technologies to effortlessly transform any text into lifelike speech. Our AI narrator thoroughly analyzes your text and promptly creates precise voiceovers in multiple languages at the touch of a button. Revolutionize your content creation process with cutting-edge technology right in your web browser.

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Storyteller

Experience the power of words with storyteller. with over 150 voice actors in over 45 languages, easily create speech from text with just a click of a button. download speech for use in your videos, video game development, or just sharing with your friends. the possibilities are endless.

Bring Your Words to Life

With Storyteller, you can turn your text into captivating narratives that sound like real-life people. Our advanced AI technology ensures that your stories are told with style and authenticity. Say goodbye to boring, generic voice-overs, and choose from our diverse selection of 150+ voice actors in 45+ languages to create stories just the way you want.

Create Unique Narratives

Personalize your stories by choosing from a variety of voice actors and customizing their style, pitch, speed, and more. Whether you're a teacher, storyteller, parent, or content creator, you can use Storyteller to create engaging stories using multiple voice actors. Say goodbye to monotony and let your creativity run wild with Storyteller.

Create Speech On-the-Go

Storyteller makes it easy to create speech anytime, anywhere. Simply copy and paste your text, select a voice actor, and listen as Storyteller delivers high-quality audio that sounds like real-life people. Use Storyteller for game development, films, YouTube videos, and more, and create amazing conversations between voice actors that you can save and listen to anytime.

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Diverse emotional inflections tailored for every narrative need.

Multilingual Capability.

All our voices fluently span 29 languages, retaining unique characteristics across each.

Voice Variety.

Design with Voice Design, explore with Voice Library, or select top-tier voice actors for unmatched natural voice quality.

Text to Speech in 29 Languages

Precision voice tuning.

Choose between expressive variability or consistent stability to fit your content's tone.

Clarity + Similarity Enhancement

Optimize for clear, artifact-free voices or enhance for speaker resemblance.

Style Exaggeration

Accentuate voice styles or prioritize speed and stability.

Text to speech for teams of all sizes

The voices are really amazing and very natural sounding. Even the voices for other languages are impressive. This allows us to do things with our educational content that would not have been possible in the past.

It's amazing to see that text to speech became that good. Write your text, select a voice and receive stunning and near-perfect results! Regenerating results will also give you different results (depending on the settings). The service supports 30+ languages, including Dutch (which is very rare). ElevenLabs has proved that it isn't impossible to have near-perfect text-to-speech 'Dutch'...

We use the tool daily for our content creation. Cloning our voices was incredibly simple. It's an easy-to-navigate platform that delivers exceptionally high quality. Voice cloning is just a matter of uploading an audio file, and you're ready to use the voice. We also build apps where we utilize the API from ElevenLabs; the API is very simple for developers to use. So, if you need a...

As an author I have written numerous books but have been limited by my inability to write them in other languages period now that I have found 11 labs, it has allowed me to create my own voice so that when writing them in different languages it's not someone else's voice but my own. That's certainly lends a level of authenticity that no other narrator can provide me.

ElevenLabs came to my notice from some YouTube videos that complained how this app was used to clone the US presidents voice. Apparently the app did its job very well. And that is the best thing about ElevenLabs. It does its job well. Converting text to speech is done very accurately. If you choose one of the 100s of voices available in the app, the quality of the output is superior to all...

Absolutely loving ElevenLabs for their spot-on voice generations! 🎉 Their pronunciation of Bahasa Indonesia is just fantastic - so natural and precise. It's been a game-changer for making tech and communication feel more authentic and easy. Big thumbs up! 👍

I have found ElevenLabs extremely useful in helping me create an audio book utilizing a clone of my own voice. The clone was super easy to create using audio clips from a previous audio book I recorded. And, I feel as though my cloned voice is pretty similar to my own. Using ElevenLabs has been a lot easier than sitting in front of a boom mic for hours on end. Bravo for a great AI product!

The variety of voices and the realness that expresses everything that is asked of it

I like that ElevenLabs uses cutting-edge AI and deep learning to create incredibly natural-sounding speech synthesis and text-to-speech. The voices generated are lifelike and emotive.

A fast and easy-to-use text to speech API

We obsess over building the fastest and simplest text to speech API so you can focus on building incredible applications.

Ultra-low latency.

We deliver streamed audio in under a second.

Ease of use.

ElevenLabs brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to developers in just a few lines of code.

Developer Community.

Get all the help you need through our expert community.

Global AI Speech Generator

Language selection

Accent selection, audio generation, wall of text to speech voices, how to use text to speech, choose your preferred voice, settings, and model..

For a pre-made voice, you can use our extensive library of voices. Or, you can clone, customize and fine-tune voices.

Enter the text you want to convert to speech.

Write naturally in any of our supported languages. Our AI will understand the language and context.

Generate spoken audio and instantly listen to the results.

Convert written text to high-quality files that can be downloaded in a variety of audio formats.

Perfect Your Sound

Punctuation.

The placement of commas, periods, and other punctuation significantly influences the delivery and pauses in the output.

Longer text provides added context, ensuring a smoother and more natural audio flow.

Speaker Profile

Match your content to the ideal speaker. Different profiles have distinct delivery styles, catering to various tones and emotions.

Voice Settings

Refine your output by adjusting voice settings. Find the perfect balance to enhance clarity and authenticity.

Text to Speech Use Cases

Our AI text to speech software is designed to be flexible and easy to use, with a variety of voice options to suit your needs.

Take content creation to the next level

Create immersive gaming experiences, publish your written works, build engaging ai chatbots.

Why ElevenLabs Text to Speech?

Efficient content production..

Transform long written content to audio, fast. Maximize reach without traditional recording constraints.

Advanced API.

Seamlessly integrate and experience dynamic TTS capabilities.

Contextual TTS.

Our AI reads between the lines, capturing the heart of the content.

Language Authenticity.

Experience genuine speech in 29 languages, from nuances to native idioms.

Comprehensive Support.

Never feel lost. Our dedicated support and rich resource library mean you're always equipped to make the most of our cutting-edge technology.

Ethical AI Principles.

We prioritize user privacy, data protection, and uphold the highest ethical standards in AI development and deployment.

Frequently asked questions

How does the elevenlabs ai text to speech differ from other tts technologies.

ElevenLabs TTS leverages advanced deep learning models which are regularly updated and refined, ensuring high-quality audio output, emotion mapping, and a vast range of vocal choices for your ideal custom voice.

Can I customize the voice settings to match specific content needs?

Absolutely. Users can adjust Stability, Clarity, and Enhancement settings, allowing for voice outputs that range from entertainingly expressive to professionally sincere. Our platform provides the flexibility to match your content's unique requirements.

What is AI text to speech used for?

Text to speech has a vast array of applications, some are well established but more are emerging all the time. TTS is ideal for creating explainer videos, converting books into audio and producing creative video content without hiring voice actors. Our speech technology is ideal for any situation where accessibility and engagement can be improved through communicated written content in a high-quality voice.

What does "text to speech with emotion" mean?

It means our artificial intelligence model understands the context and can deliver the natural sounding speech with appropriate emotional intonations – be it excitement, sorrow, or neutrality. It adds a layer of realism, making the speech output more relatable and engaging.

How many languages does ElevenLabs support?

ElevenLabs proudly supports text to speech synthesis in 29 languages, ensuring that your content can resonate with a global audience.

How varied are the voice options available on ElevenLabs?

We offer a diverse range of voice profiles, catering to different tones, accents, and emotions. Whether you're seeking a particular regional accent or a specific emotional delivery, ElevenLabs ensures you find the perfect match for your content.

How secure is my data with ElevenLabs?

User data privacy and security are our top priorities. All user data and text inputs are handled with the utmost care, ensuring they are not used beyond the specified service purpose.

Does ElevenLabs offer an API for developers?

Yes, we provide a robust API that allows developers to integrate our advanced text-to-speech capabilities into their own applications, platforms, or tools.

How can I turn text into mp3 speech?

ElevenLabs makes it easy to turn text into mp3. Simply enter your text, choose a voice, generate the audio, and download.

Text to Voice Generator

Let our text to voice generator do the talking

Need a voiceover for your next project? Kapwing's text to voice generator allows you to apply AI-powered voices to your projects with just a bit of text. In just a few clicks, you'll be able to generate a realistic-sounding voice that will read your text exactly as provided.

Once you've converted your text into speech, you can easily make edits or export the audio to popular formats like MP3. There's no software to download or plugins to install—our text to voice tools work right inside your browser. Just click the Get Started button above and write or import your text.

How to generate voice from text

• Open Text to Speech settings Click on the “Audio” tab on the left-hand side and select “Text to Speech” to open the text to speech tab.
• Personalize your voice Once your text is added, use the dropdown menus to select language and voice. When you are satisfied, click Generate Audio Layer.
• Export file When you're finished, click 'Export Project' in the top right to export and download files to any device.

Realistic-sounding voices powered by text

Automatic text to voice for everyone.

Take your content further by using our text to voice tool to apply voice overs to any video. Once you've generated a voice from your text, handle the rest of your video production with Kapwing's background noise remover and audio editing tools. We're the internet's #1 free video editor for a reason.

Human-sounding, AI generated

Our text to voice tools are powered by robots but sound casual and natural. Human voices in both male and female are available, and you can even fine-tune the audio with our built-in sound effects and stock music. Your text will be spoken naturally so your voiceovers feel polished.

Fast, accurate voiceovers from your browser

Your text is spoken aloud exactly as it's written—no obvious robo-voices and every line is said in a natural tone. There's no software or plugins to download; simply add your text and Kapwing will auto-magically create a human-sounding voice. Once you're done, export your files in seconds.

Make all of your videos more accessible

Content gets read, watched, and listened to when it's presented in a viewers' favorite format. Voice generators make it easy for people who are too distracted to watch your video to engage with your content. And with our text to voice converter, you can add spoken voices to any video, any time.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I turn my text into a voice?

What's the best voice generator for text to speech, how can i use text to voice in videos, what's different about kapwing.

Kapwing is free to use for teams of any size. We also offer paid plans with additional features, storage, and support.

Easily Create Voiceovers Using Realistic Text to Speech

Stop wasting time on recording your voice, editing out mistakes and synchronising picture with sound.

Just type or upload your script, select one of our 700 voices, and get a professionally sounding audio or video in minutes.

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A fantastic tool you have made. It is especially handy now when we teach remotely.

It's truly an amazing product. I love how I can refine the visuals, add more, and just write text, and then I get a complete demo video. Much easier than the way I was doing it before.

Rather than having to do that recording and editing, I loaded it and got the final video in under three minutes. Just recording and editing the audio would have taken me at least three hours.

Convert Text To Speech

Natural sounding text to speech in 100 languages, with 700 voices, will help you create audio files and narrated videos quickly. When you want to change the script in the future, just update a bit of text. Stop wasting time on recording and re-recording the narration.

Create training video lessons in multiple languages, make marketing videos for your products in global markets or use Narakeet as a narrator for YouTube videos.

Use our text-to-speech tool to convert a Word document or a text script to an audio file in seconds, using realistic AI voice generators.

Convert Subtitles to Audio

Turn a subtitle file into audio, synchronized with timestamps in the subtitles. Easily produce voiceover dubbing in a different language for e-learning content, make alternative audio tracks for videos and localize audio content without wasting time on audio/video synchronization.

Upload a SRT or WebVTT to our Text to Audio tool and make a synchronized dubbing audio in 100 languages.

Create Narrated Videos Quickly

Stop wasting time on recording voice, synchronising picture with sound and adding subtitles. Let Narakeet do all the dull tasks, so you can focus on the content.

Convert Powerpoint to Video. Edit videos as easily as editing text.

Narakeet is video presentation maker with voice over. Use it to convert PPT to video easily, create a slideshow with music or turn lecture slides into videos.

Make videos from PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote. Create full HD videos for YouTube from slides. Use our templates to quickly make videos for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter. Automatically add subtitles and closed captions to videos.

Create video from images and audio

Narakeet is a text to speech video maker, allowing you to turn a script to voice over, and edit videos as easily as editing text. Script the entire video using Markdown , and embed visual assets from images, screen recordings and video clips. Make video screencasts, tutorials and announcements in minutes.

Use our scripting stage directions to create slides, add call-outs, put text on top of images and videos, generate subtitle files and extract video segments. Add a voiceover to your video easily, using text-to-speech that gets synchronised to visual assets automatically.

Just edit the text and upload the slideshow or narrator script again, and you can easily create a new version of your video.

Automate Video Production

Create several versions of a single video, in different languages or different resolutions. Automatically build documentation videos with up-to-date images when your product changes. Create many similar videos quickly.

Developers can use the Narakeet API or command-line client to integrate video production into continous delivery pipelines and automation systems.

Narakeet is an excellent short video maker. Use it to create marketing videos, announcements, demos or documentation videos automatically.

Free Text to Speech Online

Murf offers a selection of 100% natural sounding AI voices in 20 languages to make professional voice over for your videos and presentations. Start your free trial.

Quality Guaranteed, No Robotic Voices

Our voices are all human sounding and quality checked across dozens of parameters. Gone are the days of robotic text to speech, most people can’t even tell between our advanced AI voices and recorded human voices.

Text to Speech Voices in 20+ Languages

Murf offers a selection of voices across 20+ languages. Most languages have voices available for testing quality in the free plan. Some languages also support multiple accents like English, Spanish and Portuguese.

A Simple Text to Voice Converter

High-Quality Voices for Every Use Case

Not Just a Text to Speech Tool

Emphasize specific words

Want to make your voiceover sound interesting? Use Murf’s ‘Emphasis’ feature to put that extra force on syllables, words, or phrases that add life to your voiceover.

Take control of your narration with pitch

Use Murf’s ‘Pitch’ functionality to draw the listeners' attention to words or phrases expressing emotions. Customize the voice as you like to make it work for yourself.

Elevate your story with pauses

Add pauses of varying lengths to your narration using Murf’s ‘Pause’ feature to give the listener's attention powers a rest and prepare them to receive your message.

Perfect Word Pronunciation

Articulate words accurately and enhance clarity in speech by customizing pronunciation. Use alternative spellings or IPAs to achieve the right pronunciation.

Fine Tune Narration Speed

Effortlessly increase or decrease the pace of the voiceover to ensure it aligns with the rhythm and flow of the message.

Expressive Voice Style Palette

Infuse your narration with the exact emotion your content needs using Murf’s dynamic voice styles. Choose from versatile options like excited, sad, angry, calm, terrified, friendly, and more.

High-performance, Easy to use Text to Speech API

Universally adaptable, advanced api features, top-notch performance, do more with murf api.

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Why Use Murf Text to Speech?

Murf's text to audio software changes the way you create and edit voiceovers with lifelike, flawless AI voices. What used to take hours, weeks, or even months now only takes minutes. You can also include images, videos, and presentations to your voiceover and sync them together without the need for a third-party tool. Here are a few reasons why you should use Murf's text to speech.

Save time and hundreds of dollars in recording expensive voice overs.

Editing voice over is as simple as editing text. Just cut, copy paste and render.

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Text to Speech: What is it and how does it works?

In essence, text to speech is the generation of synthesized speech from text. It was primarily designed as an assistive technology to help individuals with hearing impairments, visual and learning disabilities, and aged citizens to understand and consume content in a better manner. Today, the applications of TTS systems have grown manifold, and range from content creation to voiceover generation to customer service, and more. With a touch of a button, TTS can take words on a computer or other digital device and convert them into audio files. Today, the technology is used to create narratives for explainer videos or product demos , turn a book into an audio book, generate voiceovers for elearning materials, training videos, ads and commercials, YouTube videos, or podcasts, among other things.

How does TTS work?

Text to speech software leverages AI and deep learning algorithms to process the written input and sythesize a spoken output. The written text is first broken down into individual words and phrases by the TTS software’s text analysis component and then various rules and algorithms are applied to determine the appropriate pronunciation, inflection, and emphasis for each word. The speech synthesis component of the software then takes this information along with pre-recorded sound samples of individual phonemes and uses it to generate the spoken words and sentences, which is then spoken out loud using a synthesized voice generated by a computer or other device. 

Top Five Use Cases of Text to Speech Software

From increasing brand visibility and customer traction to improving customer service and boosting customer engagement to helping people with visual impairments, reading difficulties, and learning disabilities, text to speech is proving to be a game-changing technology across industries. 

Considering the myriad of benefits offered by TTS technology and how simple they make information retention, businesses are integrating text to speech into their workflow in one form or another. Here is a glimpse of all the ways text to speech is currently being utilized:

TTS in Assistive Technology 

For quite some time now, text to speech software has been used as an accessibility tool for individuals with a variety of special needs linked to Dyslexia, visual impairments, or other disabilities that make it difficult to read traditional text. Using TTS platforms, people facing such problems can convert text to speech and learn by listening on the go. Text to speech solutions also improves literacy and comprehension skills. When used in language education, they can make learning more engaging. For example, it's much easier and faster to apprehend a foreign language when listening to the live translation of written words with correct intonation and pronunciation than when reading. 

TTS in Translations

Given the fact that modern text to speech solutions come with multilingual support, brands can reach local customers by converting their content from text to audio in the local language. This will help target and connect with native-speaking customers or audiences in remote areas. 

Furthermore, text to speech solutions can also be used to translate content from one language to another. This is especially beneficial for users who come across a piece of content in a language they don't understand and can have it read aloud in their native language or a language they are adept at for better understanding.

TTS in Customer Service

With advancements in speech synthesis, it has become easier to create text and convert it to pre-recorded voices for interactive voice response calls. Today's TTS technology comes with human-like AI voices that can make natural human conversations on IVR calls. This helps contact centers provide personalized customer interactions without requiring assistance from live agents. 

TTS serves as both an inbound and outbound customer service tool. For example, when used in tandem with an IVR system, TTS solutions can provide personalized information to callers, such as greeting a customer by name, providing account information, confirming details about the order, payment, or appointment, and more. Furthermore, by tapping into the extensive range of languages, accents, and a wide variety female and male voices offered by TTS software, companies can provide an experience that matches their customer's profiles or help promote an image for their brand. 

TTS in Automotive Industry

Text to speech solutions help make connected and autonomous cars safer and sound truly unique, begetting an on-road revolution. They can be used in in-car conversational systems for navigational prompts and map data, infotainment systems to read aloud information about the car, such as fuel level or tire pressure, and swap music and voice assistants to place phone calls, read messages, and more.

TTS in Healthcare

In the healthcare industry, text to speech solutions can be used to read aloud patient information, instructions for taking medication, and provide information to doctors and other medical professionals about upcoming appointments, scheduling calls, and more. 

Why text to speech matters for businesses?

It's an exciting time to stake your claim in the realm of speech synthesis. There are a number of key industries where the text to speech technology has already succeeded in making a dent. Here are a few different ways in which businesses can harness the power of text to speech and save money and time:

Enhances customer experience

Any business can leverage TTS to alleviate human agent workload and offer customized conversational customer support. By integrating these solutions with IVR systems, companies can automate customer interactions, facilitate smart and personalized self-service by providing voice responses in the customer's language and remove communication barriers. Furthermore, organizations can also use TTS to make AI-enabled routine calls to inform customers about promotional offers, payment reminders, and much more. That said, by using text to speech in voice-activated chatbots, businesses can provide customers, especially the visually impaired, with a more immersive experience, thereby enriching the customer experience.

Global market penetration

Text to speech solutions offer synthetic voices in multiple languages enabling businesses to create content in several different languages and reach customers across different countries worldwide. Organizations can build trust with customers by creating voiceovers for ads, commercials, product demos, explainer videos, and PowerPoint presentations, among other content pieces in regional dialects and native languages. 

Increases Web Presence

That said, with the help of TTS solutions, businesses can provide an audio version of their content in addition to a written version, enabling more accessibility to a broader audience, who can choose whether to read or listen to it based on their preferences. This increases the brand's web presence. Moreover, using text to speech, brands can create a familiar, recognizable and unique voice across all their voice channels, making it easy for customers to identify the brand the second they hear it. This way, the brand shows up everywhere and improves its web presence.

Who else can benefit from text to speech?

Today’s online text to speech systems can generate speech that is almost indistinguishable from a human voice, making them a valuable tool for a wide range of applications, from improving accessibility for people with disabilities to providing convenient and efficient ways to communicate information.

Here is a list of everybody that can benefit immensely from using best text to speech softwares for their content and voiceover needs:

Many educators struggle to enhance the value of their curriculum while simplifying their workloads. This is where realistic text to speech technology plays a key role. Firstly, it improves accessibility for students with disabilities. Screen readers and other tools which are speech enabled can make learning an equal opportunity and enjoyable experience for those with learning and physical disabilities. Secondly, it helps teach comprehension in an effective manner. Text to speech software offers an easy way for students to listen to how words are spoken in their natural structure and following the same is easier through audio playback.

TTS software also enhances engagement and makes learning interesting for students. For example, using natural sounding text to speech voices, teachers can create engaging presentations and elearning modules that capture student’s attention. 

In marketing specifically, text to speech technology can help improve data collection, facilitate comprehensive customer profiling, and better data analysis. Online text to speech tools offer an easy way for businesses to reach a broader audience and create customized user experiences.

For instance, marketing teams can create and deliver videos to prospective clients to establish a connection and brief them on queries and complicated products or services in the language and accent the customer is comfortable with. Furthermore, AI voices enable marketing teams to create crisp, high quality professional-sounding voiceovers in a few simple steps without hiring voice actors or requiring any professional recording studios.

Text to speech generators offer authors numerous advantages. One, it serves as an editing aid and helps storytellers proof read their novels and manuscripts to identify grammatical errors and other mistakes in their drafts before publishing. Listening to their stories being read aloud also allows authors to gauge the response to their work on other people. Authors can also use realistic voice generators to convert their books into audiobooks and podcasts and broaden the reach of their work. 

From interviews about true crime to politics and science, there are all sorts of popular podcast formats today. And, regardless of how good your podcast topic is, it won’t matter if the host doesn’t have a good voice. That said, not everyone can have that best podcast voice like an old-school radio anchor or a news presenter. This is where text to speech platforms come in. You don’t have to record scripted intros, prologues, or epilogues, an AI narrator can do it for you. Through text to speech software, you can automatically create the narrative and voiceover for your podcast in the language and tone you want in a matter of minutes by simply uploading the script to the platform. 

Creating good voice overs for your animated explainer videos or product demos or games typically meant investing a lot of money on recording equipment and hiring professional voice actors. Not anymore. With AI text to speech platforms, you can add natural sounding voices to your animated video to make them more engaging and captivating. In fact, with text to speech software, you can give each character in your animated video or game, a unique voice. 

Customer Support Executives

Integrating realistic text to voice software with an IVR system enables customer service agents to concentrate more on complex customers rather than common queries. TTS-enabled IVR systems are capable of gathering information and providing responses to customers as necessary in a way that sounds just like an actual customer service agent.

Furthermore, TTS systems also eliminate the need for IVR businesses to schedule voiceover retakes months in advance. With TTS systems, businesses can render a new voiceover in minutes creating thousands of iterations within a few clicks.

Text to speech is a game-changer for students of all ages and educational levels. By converting written text into spoken words, students can enhance their learning experience and comprehension. Text to speech technology can read content out aloud, making it easier for students to absorb information while multitasking. It is particularly useful for students with dyslexia, ADHD, or other learning disabilities as it provides them with an alternative way to consume educational content. Furthermore, the tool can also be used to add narrations to presentations, explainer videos, how-to videos, and more.

Be it corporate trainers, fitness trainers, or lifestyle instructors, text to speech can be used to create engaging and accessible learning materials. For example, fitness trainers can convert written content into audio-based workout routines and personalized exercise plans. This helps to increase engagement levels and knowledge retention among the audience.

Similarly, corporate trainers can also use TTS to create presentations on employee policies and other organizational practices. It makes the coursework highly engaging and improves employee performance at many levels. Additionally, using audio course materials is a great way to respect the staff with disabilities and give everyone equal access to training.  

Content Creators 

Content creators, including social media users, bloggers, writers, influencers, and authors, can leverage text to speech to enhance their productivity and reach a broader audience.

This technology enables content creators to convert their written articles, scripts, blog posts, or eBooks into high-quality audio files quickly in multiple languages instead of manually recording the voiceover.

Consequently, it opens up new avenues for content consumption. This allows readers to listen to the content while performing other tasks or when reading isn’t feasible, such as during commutes or workouts. 

Video Producers 

Video creators can easily add voiceovers or narration to their videos, eliminating the need for hiring voice actors or spending hours recording audio. This not only saves time and resources but also ensures consistent and professional-sounding voiceovers.

Murf: The Ultimate Text to Speech Software

If you are looking for a text to speech generator that can create stunning voiceovers for your tutorials, presentations, or videos, Murf is the one to go for. 

Murf can generate human-like, realistic, and natural-sounding voices. Its pièce de résistance is that Murf can do it in over 120+ unique voices in 20+ languages. 

This text aloud reader also allows you to tweak the pitch of the voice, add pauses or emphasis, and alter the speed of the output to get the output just the way you want it. 

And the best part? Murf is extremely easy to use. Just type or paste in your script, choose your preferred voice in the language you want, and hit play. Murf will do the rest. 

Create Engaging Content with Murf's AI Voices

Murf text to audio converter can be used in a number of scenarios to elevate the quality of your overall content. Let's look at a few use cases where Murf can help and why it’s the best text to speech reader out there:

E-learning Videos

Murf’s free text to speech reader can help you create e-learning videos in multiple languages that will make your content accessible to a global audience. You can also increase the engagement of your e-learning video by adding emotions and expressions to your content. 

Presentations

Murf’s AI voices can add a touch of professionalism to your presentations to help drive home those key points. You can use Murf to narrate your slides, explain your concepts, or tell the story of your brand in the exact tone and style you envisioned. 

You can also use this free text to speech reader to make your audiobooks sound as if they its been narrated by an actual person.

With Murf, you can also mix and match different voices for the various characters in the audiobook to take your storytelling up a few notches. 

Sales and Marketing Videos

Murf can also enhance your sales and marketing videos with persuasive and professional voiceovers. You can use these videos to showcase your products, services, or offers and tailor them in multiple languages to advertise to a potentially global audience. 

Product Demos

Finally, Murf can help you create informative and engaging product demo videos that showcase your product’s features and benefits in the best possible light.

Key Features of Murf Text to Speech

Apart from enabling users to enhance the quality of their voiceover content with compelling, nuanced, and natural sounding text to speech voices,  Murf offers an intuitive voice user interface and the ability to customize and control the voiceover output with features like pitch, speed, emphasis, pause, pronunciation and more.

More than Just a Text to Speech Software

Tired of hearing monotonous, robotic-sounding voiceovers? Not anymore. With Murf, enhance the quality of your content with compelling, nuanced, and natural sounding text to speech that replicate the subtleties of human voice. Fine-tune your voiceover narration and add more character to an AI voice with features such as Emphasis, Pronunciation, Speed, and more! From inviting and conversational to excited and loud to empathetic and authoritative, we have AI voices that span different intonations and emotions. Murf AI text to speech (TTS) supports Arabic, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tamil, and Turkish. Some of these languages also support multiple accents. For example, our English language AI voices support British, Australian, American, and Indian accents. Our Spanish AI voices support Mexican and Spain accents. The TTS online software also offers users the ability to add background audio or music to their content. Murf studio, in fact, comes with a curated selection of royalty-free music in their gallery that the user can choose from to add some music to their video. You can also upload your own audio files or even import from external sources like YouTube, Vimeo, and other video websites. Murf's text to sound has a voice changer feature that lets you upload your existing recording and revamp it with professional AI voice in a single click. You can change your voice to an AI voice in three simple steps: transcribe the audio, choose an AI voice, and regenerate the audio in a new voice. It's as easy as pie.

Summing It Up

Murf is a powerful text to speech reader that can help you create engaging and professional voiceovers for your videos, presentations , and so much more. 

To put it in short, with Murf, you can:

• Save a ton of money that would have otherwise been spent on voice actors and renting out studio spaces.
• Widen your reach to a global audience with its support for over 120+ unique voices in over 20+ languages.
• Make your content accessible to anyone with visual or specific cognitive disabilities. 

So, what are you waiting for? Sign up for a free trial of Murf today!

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Best AI Voice Generator for Storytelling Text to Speech

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AI Voice Generator Text to Speech is a technology that converts written text into spoken words using artificial intelligence. This technology has been used in various fields such as video creation, audio content production, and language learning tools. It allows users to generate high-quality audio content with natural sounding voices.

Fundamentals of AI Voice Generation:

• Text-to-Speech (TTS) Systems : These systems convert written text into spoken words, forming the basic structure for AI voice generators.
• Machine Learning : AI voice generators use machine learning to mimic the characteristics of human speech.
• Text Preprocessing : The first phase in the TTS pipeline where raw text is converted into a suitable format for subsequent processing.
• Tokenization : This is the process of breaking down the text into individual words or “tokens”.
• Normalization : During normalization, any irregularities in the text are addressed.
• Part of Speech Tagging : Each word in the text is labeled with its corresponding part of speech (e.g., noun, verb, adjective).
• Phonetic Analysis : The preprocessed text is converted into a phonetic transcription, representing how each word in the text should be pronounced.
• Speech Synthesis : The final phase of the TTS system where the phonetic transcription is converted into speech.

Advanced Concepts and Technologies:

• Voice Cloning Technology : This technology allows you to customize your own AI voice.
• Voice Skins and Speech Styles : Understanding these can help in creating diverse and engaging audio content.
• Accent, Intonation, and Depth : These variables are considered when recreating the nuances of human speech.
• Deep Learning : Advanced machine learning technique used in speech synthesis.
• Human-like Voices : AI voice generators aim to produce voices that sound exactly like human voices.
• Open Source AI Voice Generators : These tools utilize advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms for speech synthesis.

Practical Applications and Considerations:

• Applications of AI Voice Generation Technology : These include creating audio and video content, voice assistants, and more.
• Challenges and Ethical Considerations : It’s important to be aware of the ethical implications and challenges associated with using AI voice generation technology.
• Benefits of AI-Generated Voices : Understanding the benefits can help in effectively leveraging the voice technology .
• Choosing the Right AI Voice Generator : The quality of the generated voice can vary based on the tool you choose.
• Pricing : Some tools are free, while others require a monthly subscription.
• Quality of Learning : High-quality voice generators can improve the quality of learning.

In the realm of online AI generators , the concept of transforming text into lifelike voices has taken center stage. There are numerous AI voice generators available online, some are free, while others come with premium features that you can unlock for a price. Here, we’ll delve into the world of AI Voice Generator Text to Speech, exploring what it is, its various facets, and the best options available to you.

Top 5 Best AI Voice Generators for Storytelling

Searching for the ultimate AI voice generator to elevate your content? Look no further. Our comprehensive guide explores the finest AI voice generators online, meticulously assessed and rated by seasoned expert in the field of storytelling and AI technology. Discover the perfect AI voice generator to breathe life into your text and captivate your audience in the ever-evolving world of AI-driven voice generation. Make the right choice and embark on a journey of creative possibilities with lifelike voices that resonate with your content.

1. Murf AI Review

• Simple and Powerful
• All-in-one AI voice generator

Pros: Diverse 120+ text to speech voices in 20+ languages. Experiment with voice characteristics such as pitch, punctuation, and emphasis to tailor the AI voices to convey your message in your preferred manner.

Cons: Some users may find the customization options somewhat limited.

2. LOVO AI Review

• Customizable intonation
• Lifelike voices (voice skins)

Pros: LOVO AI is a text-to-speech software that uses artificial intelligence to generate lifelike voices from text. LOVO AI can be used to create audio content for various purposes, such as podcasts, audiobooks, videos, games, advertising, and more.

Cons: Inconsistency in app performance, leading to frustration for some users. Expensive pricing plans. Limited editing capabilities.

3. Synthesia Review

• Easily add Voice-over to a Video
• Customizable Vocal Modes

Pros: Synthesia.io is an innovative AI voice, video, and avatar generation platform that enables anyone to create professional, polished videos using artificial intelligence. It allows you to create stunning videos and easily add human-like voice-over to your video.

Cons: Certain voices can sound a little robotic.

4. Synthesizer V Review

• Advanced AI-Powered Synthesis

Pros: Dreamtonics Synthesizer V is an AI-powered synthesis engine that generates life-like vocals in English, Japanese, and Chinese, and offers customizable vocal modes such as chest, belt, and breathy styles. It provides cost and time savings by eliminating the need for a human singer, and offers flexibility with both free and Pro versions.

Cons: It has limited voice banks, particularly for male voices, some of the female voice banks sound similar, some voice banks are hard to get. If you prefer more robotic sounds, you might not like the realistic voices of Synthesizer V.

5. Resemble AI Review

• Speech-To-Speech
• Emotions and Localize

Pros: Resemble AI is a time-saving tool for video creators and narrators, storing and cloning your voice for voiceovers and narrations from text inputs, with options to adjust emotions and tone. It supports localization, allowing translation of AI-generated speech into different languages while maintaining your voice, even if you don’t speak those languages.

Cons: Resemble AI uses a pay-per-use model, with basic plans offering English to Spanish-Mexican and English to French translations, and more locales in pro plan.

AI Voice Generator Text to Speech

You might be wondering if there’s a free option to generate text-to-voice using AI. The answer is yes! Several online tools offer free AI-generated voices that can breathe life into your text. These AI tools are not only budget-friendly but also remarkably easy to use, making them accessible to a wide audience.

Free AI text-to-speech generators have gained popularity for their accessibility and ease of use. They allow you to convert your text into speech without breaking the bank. However, it’s essential to find a balance between cost and quality when choosing a free AI voice generator.

The pursuit of realism in AI text-to-speech technology has led to some remarkable advancements. You’ll find AI voice generators that can mimic human speech with astonishing accuracy. These generators use complex algorithms to replicate the nuances of natural speech, making them a top choice for content creators seeking lifelike narration.

AI Voice Generator Online

Convenience is paramount when it comes to online AI voice generators. Some platforms offer free services without requiring you to sign up or create an account. This means you can get started on your voice generation journey without any unnecessary hassles.

The quest for realism in AI-generated voices is unending. Realistic voice generators, available for free online, provide an immersive listening experience. They can make your content sound as if it were spoken by a real human, enhancing engagement and user experience.

Deepfake technology has infiltrated the world of voice generation as well. With a deepfake voice generator, you can recreate voices that closely resemble real individuals, including celebrities. This opens up exciting possibilities for creative content and impersonations.

Ever wanted to add a touch of celebrity to your content? AI celebrity voice generators can make it happen. These storytelling tools allow you to incorporate the voices of famous personalities into your projects, adding a unique and engaging element.

Free AI Voice Generator for Storytelling

Free AI voice generators aren’t limited to just basic functionality. Many of them offer realistic text-to-speech capabilities without any cost. These generators can help you produce content that sounds polished and professional, even on a tight budget.

Some AI voice generators offer the option to download your generated audio. This feature can be particularly useful if you want to use the generated voice in various projects or platforms. It provides flexibility and convenience in how you utilize the AI-generated voices.

To take your content to the next level, consider using a free AI voice generator that can convey emotion in the spoken words. These generators can infuse your text with a range of emotions, adding depth and authenticity to your content.

AI Voice Generator Characters

Bringing characters to life is a unique and exciting aspect of AI voice generation. Online tools offer character voice generators that can give your fictional personas distinct and captivating voices, enhancing the overall storytelling experience.

Whether you’re working on a novel, video game, or animation, a fictional character voice generator can be a valuable asset. It allows you to create memorable and immersive character dialogues that resonate with your audience.

For anime and cartoon enthusiasts, there are specialized character voice generators tailored to these genres. They enable you to replicate the iconic voices of your favorite animated characters, adding a nostalgic touch to your projects.

AI character voice generators have the power to bring your characters to life in ways you never imagined. With the right voice, your characters can become more relatable and memorable, enriching your storytelling endeavors.

AI Voice Cloning

Voice cloning is another fascinating dimension of AI voice generation. It allows you to replicate voices, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. Free AI voice cloning tools are available online, offering real-time voice transformation.

Real-time voice transformation is a fun and creative application of generative AI technology . With AI voice changers, you can alter your voice in real time during calls or recordings, adding an element of entertainment to your conversations.

If you’re serious about voice cloning, you’ll find AI voice cloning apps and software that provide advanced features and customization options. Ai storyteller voice changer is ideal for professionals and hobbyists alike who want to explore the full potential of voice cloning.

The world of AI voice generation has opened up a realm of possibilities for content creators, storytellers, and technology enthusiasts. Whether you’re looking for realistic text-to-speech, character voices, celebrity impersonations, or voice cloning, there’s a wide array of tools and options at your disposal.

As technology continues to advance, AI voice generators are only becoming more sophisticated and accessible. The key is to choose the right tool that aligns with your specific needs and creative aspirations. So, go ahead and explore the exciting world of AI voice generation, and let your imagination run wild with the power of lifelike voices at your fingertips.

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TTSMaker is a free text-to-speech tool that provides speech synthesis services and supports multiple languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc., as well as various voice styles. You can use it to read text and e-books aloud, or download the audio files for commercial use (it's completely free). As an excellent free TTS tool, TTSMaker can easily convert text to speech online.

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Listen & Read at the Same Time

With Speechify text highlighting you can choose to just listen, or listen and read at the same time. Easily follow along as words are highlighted – like Karaoke. Listening and reading at the same time increases comprehension.

Convert Text to Studio-Quality Voices

With Speechify’s easy-to-use AI text to speech voices, you can forget about warbly robotic text to speech AI voices. Our accurate human-like AI voices are HD quality and available in 30+ languages and 100+ accents.

Image to Speech

Scan or take a picture of any image and Speechify will read it aloud to you with its cutting-edge OCR technology. Save your images to your library in the cloud and access it anywhere. You can now listen to that note you got from a friend, relative, or other loved one.

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What is text to speech

Text to speech, also known as TTS, read aloud, or even speech synthesis . It simply means using artificial intelligence to read words aloud be; it from a PDF , email, docs, or any website. There isn’t a voice artist recording phrases or words, or even the entire article. Speech generation is done on-the-fly, in real time, with natural sounding AI voices.

And that’s the beauty of it all. You don’t have to wait. You simply press play and artificial intelligence makes the words come alive instantly, in a very natural sounding voice. You can change voices and accents across multiple languages.

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I used to hate school because I’d spend hours just trying to read the assignments. Listening has been totally life changing. This app saved my education.

Ana Student with Dyslexia

Speechify has made my editing so much faster and easier when I’m writing. I can hear an error and fix it right away. Now I can’t write without it.

Daniel Writer

Speechify makes reading so much easier. English is my second language and listening while I follow along in a book has seriously improved my skills.

Lou Avid Reader

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Product Manager at The Star Tribune

With Speechify’s API, we can offer our users a new and accessible way to consume our content. We’ve seen that readers who choose to listen to articles with Speechify are on average 20% more engaged than users who choose not to listen.

Susy Botello

Thanks for sharing this.I love this feature. I just tweeted at you on how much I like it. The voice is great and not at all like the text-to-speech I am used to listening to. I am a podcaster and I think this will help a lot of people multitask a bit, especially if they are interrupted with incoming emails or whatever. You can read-along but continue reading if your eyes need to go elsewhere. Hope you keep this. It’s already in other web publications. I also see it in some news sites. So I think it could become a standard that readers expect when they read online. Can I vote twice?

Renato Vargas

I just started using Medium more and I absolutely love this feature. I’ve listened to my own stories and the Al does the inflections just as I would. Many complain that they can’t read their own stories, but let’s be honest. How many stories would go without an audio version if you had to do all of them yourself? I certainly appreciate it. Thanks for this!!

Oh! How cool – I love it 🙂 The voice is surprisingly natural sounding! My eyes took a much appreciated rest for a bit. I’ve been a long time subscriber to Audible on Amazon. I think this is Great 🙂 Thank you!

Paola Rios Schaaf

Super excited about this! We are all spending too much time staring at our screens. Using another sense to take in the great content at Medium is awesome.

Hi Warren, I am one of those small, randomly selected people, and I ABSOLUTELY love this feature. I have consumed more ideas than I ever have on Medium. And also as a non-native English speaker, this is really helping me to improve my pronunciation. Keep this forevermore! Love, Ananya:)

This is the single most important feature you can role out for me. I simply don’t have the time to read all the articles I would like to on Medium. If I could listen to the articles I could consume at least 3X the amount of Medium content I do now.

Andrew Picken

Love this feature Warren. I use it when I’m reading, helps me churn through reading and also stay focused on the article (at a good speed) when my willpower is low! Keeping me more engaged..

I was THRILLED the other day when I saw the audio option. I didn’t know how it got there, but I pressed play, and then I was blown away hearing the words that I wrote being narrated

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LOVE THISSS. As someone who loves audio almost as much as reading, this is absolute gold

What is text to speech (TTS)?

Text-to-speech goes by a few names. Some refer to it as TTS,  read aloud , or even speech synthesis ; for the more engineered name. Today, it simply means using  artificial intelligence  to read words aloud be; it from a PDF, email, docs, or any website. Instantly turn text into audio. Listen in English, Italian, Portuguese,  Spanish , or more and choose your accent and character to personalize your experience.

How does AI text to speech work?

Beautifully. Speech synthesis works by installing an app like Speechify either on your device or as a browser extension. AI scans the words on the page and  reads it out loud , without any lag. You can change the default voice to a custom voice, change accents, languages, and even increase or decrease the speaking rate.

AI has made significant progress in synthesizing voices. It can pick up on formatted text and change tone accordingly. Gone are the days where the voices sounded  robotic . Speechify is revolutionizing that.

Once you install the TTS mobile app, you can easily convert text to speech from any website within your browser, read aloud your email, and more. If you install it as a  browser extension , you can do just the same on your laptop. The web version is OS agnostic. Mac or Windows, no problem.

What does TTS mean?

TTS, which stands for Text-to-Speech, also known as speech synthesis, is a transformative technology that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to convert written text into remarkably realistic spoken words. TTS systems are crucial for enhancing accessibility, especially for individuals with learning disabilities and visual impairments, by allowing any text to be read aloud.

What is the text-to-speech service?

A text-to-speech service is a tool, like Speechify text to speech, that transforms your written words into spoken words. Imagine typing out a message and having it read out loud by a digital voice – that’s what TTS services, like Speechify TTS do.

What are the benefits of text to speech?

TTS technology offers many benefits, like helping those with reading difficulties, providing rest for your eyes, multitasking by listening to content, improving pronunciation and language learning, and making content accessible to a wider audience.

How is Speechify TTS better than Murf AI text to speech, Google Voice, or TTSReader?

Speechify TTS stands out by offering a more natural and human-like voice quality, a wider range of customization options, and user-friendly integration across devices. Plus, our dedication to accessibility means that we ensure a seamless and inclusive experience for all users.

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Child Text to Speech

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Imagine transforming any text into the cheerful, lively voice of a child with just a few clicks. That's exactly what Child Text to Speech technology offers. The SpeechGen allows users to input text and convert it into audio using a child's voice, with options to adjust the speed and pitch for a more personalized touch.

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• Kevin plus 8-12 yo boy, EN-US. Crystal voice.
• Justin plus or standart Justin 7-11 yo boy, EN-US. Hoarse voice.
• Anny 4-8 yo girl, EN-US. Cute and ringing voice.
• Ivy plus or standart Ivy 7-11 yo girl, EN-US. Crisp, high voice.
• Emma plus 13-17 yo teenage girl, british accent EN-GB. Crisp, calm and composed voice.
• Maisie 4-8 yo girl, british accent EN-GB. Cheerful, high, bright voice.
• Carly 7-9 yo girl, australian accent EN-Au. Bright, energetic voice.
• Irene 6-10 yo girl, Spanish language. No-english.
• Gisela 5-8 yo girl, German language. No-english.

A simple guide how to convert Text to Childs Speech

Here are 10 creative ways to use child voices in your content:

• Animated Stories: Bring your animated characters to life with authentic child voices, making the stories more relatable to young audiences.
• Educational Videos: Use child voices for narrating educational content, making learning more engaging for kids.
• Mobile Apps for Children: Integrate child voiceovers in apps to guide and entertain kids in a friendly manner.
• YouTube Channels: Stand out by using child voices in your YouTube videos, especially those targeted at kids.
• Advertisements: Create compelling ads for children's products with a voice that speaks directly to them.
• Audio Books: Transform children's books into captivating audio stories with voices that young listeners can connect with.
• Interactive Games: Enhance the gaming experience for children with characters that speak in a child's voice.
• Virtual Assistants for Kids: Develop kid-friendly virtual assistants that communicate with child-like enthusiasm and clarity.
• Language Learning Tools: Make language learning fun by using child voices to teach new words and phrases.
• Podcasts for Kids: Start a podcast that caters to young listeners with engaging stories or educational content in child voices.

Using child voices in content can significantly increase its appeal to young audiences. It adds a layer of authenticity and fun, making the content more engaging and relatable. This approach can help capture the attention of children and hold it, enhancing the overall effectiveness of the message or story being conveyed.

Embracing TTS technology opens up a world of creativity and connection with young audiences. By choosing the right tone and pitch, you can create content that not only entertains but also educates and inspires.

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Voice   Generator

This web app allows you to generate voice audio from text - no login needed, and it's completely free! It uses your browser's built-in voice synthesis technology, and so the voices will differ depending on the browser that you're using. You can download the audio as a file, but note that the downloaded voices may be different to your browser's voices because they are downloaded from an external text-to-speech server. If you don't like the externally-downloaded voice, you can use a recording app on your device to record the "system" or "internal" sound while you're playing the generated voice audio.

Want more voices? You can download the generated audio and then use voicechanger.io to add effects to the voice. For example, you can make the voice sound more robotic, or like a giant ogre, or an evil demon. You can even use it to reverse the generated audio, randomly distort the speed of the voice throughout the audio, add a scary ghost effect, or add an "anonymous hacker" effect to it.

Note: If the list of available text-to-speech voices is small, or all the voices sound the same, then you may need to install text-to-speech voices on your device. Many operating systems (including some versions of Android, for example) only come with one voice by default, and the others need to be downloaded in your device's settings. If you don't know how to install more voices, and you can't find a tutorial online, you can try downloading the audio with the download button instead. As mentioned above, the downloaded audio uses external voices which may be different to your device's local ones.

You're free to use the generated voices for any purpose - no attribution needed. You could use this website as a free voice over generator for narrating your videos in cases where don't want to use your real voice. You can also adjust the pitch of the voice to make it sound younger/older, and you can even adjust the rate/speed of the generated speech, so you can create a fast-talking high-pitched chipmunk voice if you want to.

Note: If you have offline-compatible voices installed on your device (check your system Text-To-Speech settings), then this web app works offline! Find the "add to homescreen" or "install" button in your browser to add a shortcut to this app in your home screen. And note that if you don't have an internet connection, or if for some reason the voice audio download isn't working for you, you can also use a recording app that records your devices "internal" or "system" sound.

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An AI animation generator with text-to-video tool, text-to-voice, stock footage, background music, and more!

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Fast production, instant video, free to use, dynamic content, tools you can use to create ai-generated animations:, 1 type a prompt and generate a video.

Let our AI magically produce a professional-quality video from your text prompts. Describe the video you want to create and click “Generate.” You can view your AI-generated video and edit it in our built-in video editing software.

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Add narrations and voiceovers to your video using AI text-to-speech ! Click Audio from the left menu and select Text to Speech. Type or paste your text into the text field and click Add to Project. You can also add AI text-to-speech avatars .

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Convert text to animation using the AI text-to-video tool

Turn your text into beautiful animated videos with VEED’s powerful text-to-video tool. Use our AI video creator by typing a prompt, and our artificial intelligence will produce animated videos for you—complete with voiceovers, music, and animated visuals. Plus, you will have access to our video editing software. Or use our artificial intelligence text-to-video tool.

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VEED features a handy AI script generator that can provide you with compelling video scripts for your AI animations. Just type a prompt and get your AI-generated script in seconds. Our artificial intelligence software will work its magic and you can go straight to our video editor to create your content! You can even use AI avatars to present information on your videos.

Create video animations with dialogues using text to voice

Add dialogues to your animated videos. Convert text to voiceovers and narrations using VEED’s AI text-to-speech tool. Select from several voice profiles, languages, and accents. No need to manually record your voice or hire voice actors! Add seamless voiceovers using your voice profile with our voice cloning tool.

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The magic doesn’t stop in our AI tools! VEED features a full range of video editing tools that let you create professional-looking videos without having to go through confusing configurations. Translate spoken audio using our voice dubber . Add instant narrations using our AI voice generator . With our intuitive timeline, snap-to-grid, and drag-and-drop interface, you can streamline your content creation process.

VEED features plenty of AI tools you can use to convert text to video and create amazing-looking videos even without your own footage! You can use audio and video clips from our stock library, add voiceovers, music, and more. Or do it the fast way—type a prompt and let our text-to-video AI tool generate a video for you!

VEED offers plenty of ways to let you convert text to video using AI tools! You can use stock audio and video clips from our stock media library, add voiceovers using AI text-to-speech, or create a video entirely from AI-generated images using our AI image generator!

You can create videos from text on VEED by converting your text to voice—and then creating a video using our wide variety of tools! You can use stock video and audio clips, create videos from photos, then add your voiceover. With VEED, it only takes minutes to add voice overs to your videos—and all you have to do is type or paste your text! You can preview how it sounds and when you’re happy, just click on Add to Project!

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Nowadays, if one thing is certain, not everyone learns the same way. In the world of e-learning and literature, AI generated stories are an innovative way to teach children essential skills in an engaging and interactive manner. With AI story generators, you can quickly create exciting audio stories that help foster creativity in children.

Creativity and writing skills are something that the current public education system often fails to cultivate in children due to lackluster curriculum requirements. With AI generated stories, teachers can foster these skills by quickly creating engaging stories tailored to their students and their budding imaginations. In this article, we’ll explore how you can use AI generated stories to teach children.

Why do AI generated stories make great audiobooks for lessons?

AI generated stories can provide a unique and interactive way to teach children. With tools like ChatGPT and Typecast, you can quickly create stories featuring fascinating characters, compelling storytelling, and an immersive audio experience. These stories can be tailored to any child’s interests, allowing them to learn without feeling overwhelmed or disengaged.

Additionally, AI generated stories can help break up the monotony of traditional lesson plans and keep children engaged and motivated. AI stories can help children find their voice, express themselves, and develop a curious mind using unique story ideas. How do these AI generated stories work, or rather, how can a machine create them at all; has AI finally become “aware?”

No, it’s nothing like that. There won’t be a machine uprising or sentient robots – yet.

What is generative content, and how does it work?

AI story writing is made possible by generative AI content , which is text or audio generated by a trained AI language model. A generative AI system uses algorithms and deep machine learning technologies to create text, images, and audio that sounds like a human made them. In the case of ChatGPT and Typecast, these AI tools will act as your friendly writing assistant. 

They work well for fiction authors but can assist educators with ideating unique audio stories that their classes will enjoy. These audio stories can focus on character development, plot structure, and narrative arcs. Still, educators can easily create children’s stories with just a few words and a simple AI story generator.

What is an AI story generator?

An AI story generator is a tool that allows you to create stories with the help of specialized AI. This type of AI assists you in story generation, shaping story ideas and texts into audio dramas or audiobooks. Some examples of AI story generators include ChatGPT , Canva , Jasper.ai, and Bing’s new search engine feature.

These AI story generators are great for creating simple children’s stories since they can quickly generate text and chapters for your stories and even build chapter summaries and detailed outlines to keep track of more complex stories. These story-maker tools use natural language processing technology to generate unique content for your stories based on your story prompts, keywords, and ideas.

How does an AI story writer work?

The AI story writer is a helpful tool for generating short stories or other creative works. It’s an AI story maker that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to understand your ideas and turn them into a story, acting as an intelligent and creative assistant that only needs your guidance. This tool saves writers time and banishes writer’s block.

AI can generate stories in any genre, such as crime, mystery, horror, and science fiction, with endless possibilities. AI story writers can write fiction genres but aren’t typically used to create children’s books and lessons. The best part about an AI story maker is that they don’t require much effort from the writer. You provide the base story prompt, and the AI will do the rest.

So, if you’re looking to quickly create engaging stories for children, why not use an AI-generated short story? But what about AI story writers makes them suitable for creating audio stories for children?

AI story writers act as great writing assistants because:

• The AI story generator creates stories using algorithms that gather information from the internet database and incorporate relevant keywords.
• The AI story writer uses deep learning and NLP to generate high-quality content.
• AI writing tools vary in their methods. Some use a database of pre-written content for the AI to draw from, while others use AI to dictate the writing style.

Who should use an AI story writer?

AI story writers are perfect for children’s literature as creators can customize them to their age range and interests based on the prompts. Finally, they’re also helpful for any writer looking for a creative boost for generating ideas or for those short on time.

AI generated stories can be educational, entertaining, and enjoyable for children of all ages. Using AI tools with developed machine learning models and fine-tuning can create stories that will teach children valuable lessons while keeping them engaged in the narrative.

Why should teachers create funny AI generated stories for their students?

AI writing tools can be advantageous for educators in several ways. For instance, AI writing tools can save time and boost productivity by generating text within seconds instead of performing tasks manually.

It’s well-known that teachers don’t have much time throughout their day to create engaging story-based lessons. By making lesson plans all the time, tracking data, and grading papers, their free time is limited.

Funny AI generated stories allow teachers to quickly create funny audio stories for their students while adhering to the curriculum.

Teachers can create hilarious but informative stories with minimal effort with the right prompts and keywords. Don’t be fooled; just because the writing process makes things easier and doesn’t take as much effort doesn’t mean the stories will be lacking in education.

AI generated stories can help children learn valuable lessons while allowing them to interact with the narrative, making them more invested. Teachers want to engage their students in the learning process but also need to save time. 

Two different AI story generation tools

Although AI technology is advanced, it can only generate entirely new stories with your guidance. Therefore, having a prospective idea for your audio stories before using the technology is essential. If you’re familiar with AI tools, you know that the more information you give, the more likely it is to generate a memorable story.

Using ChatGPT as an AI story generator

ChatGPT is a deep learning generative AI tool anyone can use as a story generator. It uses state-of-the-art NLP and GPT-4 to generate high-quality stories. While AI tools can stretch the truth, this is fine if you’re creating fictional audio stories.

As a teacher, though, you’ll need to verify the facts ChatGPT puts in your audio stories, which isn’t any different from using any other AI tool. Since chat-based AI tools require detailed commands to generate quality content, users must give ChatGPT a series of requests.

To get the most out of ChatGPT, users must follow three tips:

• If you’re writing a funny fiction story, you must provide the story arc, characters, and plot. Be sure to give the AI enough information to create an intriguing narrative.
• If you have a main character in your story lesson, let’s say about a historical figure, ChatGPT needs all of their characteristics and backstory. The more information it receives, the better it can personalize the audio story.
• ChatGPT also needs you to describe the world your historical figure lives in and the conflict they might experience. This helps ChatGPT create a vivid world to which your students can relate.

One of the best ways ChatGPT can contribute to a better workflow for teachers is if they use the AI story writer to write “summaries” or outlines of each lesson. That way, the teacher can quickly create an audio story from scratch without having to devise ideas and ensure that it still aligns with the task. Failing that, a teacher can also use ChatGPT as a plot generator tool to create a good story.

Creating funny AI generated stories with Typecast

In addition to using ChatGPT as an AI story generator; teachers can utilize Typecast voice overs to add more dimensions to their educational stories and breathe life into them with a unique voice. Typecast is a custom text to speech tool that pairs an AI voice generator with comprehensive tools to provide custom AI voices for your video storyboards and AI generated stories.

With Typecast, you can create funny text to song audiobooks that educate children in song form about topics that could be boring. Using a computer-generated voice , you can change language and dialects and add minor effects that make the audio sound more interesting. For instance, you can retell popular children’s songs with funny and fictional stories incorporating original music elements to make them relatable. The AI story generator provides context for the song, which helps children to remember the lyrics and get an enriching experience at the same time.

It’s easy to use Typecast to generate audio stories:

• Cast your favorite character from our library of over 300 synthetic voices.
• Next, type your lesson plan or deck into the content window.
• Set a voice style for your story by adjusting the settings in the prompt window.
• Click “ Play ” and allow the tool to generate an audio playback of your content using your selected voice.

Using Typecast’s voice generator, you can create seasonal Christmas stories using Typecast’s custom Santa Claus voice. The AI voiceover adds charm and personality to your seasonal stories through natural-sounding speech and can help children get more involved with the narrative.

Explore AI generated story technology with Typecast

Incorporating an AI storyteller into the lesson plans could be the next step in providing more meaningful learning experiences for children. AI-generated stories can add fun and creativity to lessons, making learning more fun and fulfilling. At Typecast, we fully support educators and their ability to create stories that bring joy and knowledge to their students.  

We believe in AI generated stories’ power to help children connect with topics they are learning, and we are here to help everyone bring their story to life. So, if you’re looking for ways to add more creative elements to your lessons or are curious to explore new ideas with AI generated story technology, Typecast is here for you.

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Trump and Biden's first presidential debate of 2024, fact checked

By Arden Farhi , Hunter Woodall , Jui Sarwate , Julia Ingram , Layla Ferris , Laura Doan , James LaPorta , Daniel Klaidman , Alexander Tin , Pete Villasmil, Sierra Sanders

Updated on: June 28, 2024 / 9:46 AM EDT / CBS News

Here's the fact check of some of the statements made by President Biden and former President Donald Trump during the first 2024 presidential debate , which took place in Atlanta on Thursday, June 27. The two tangled on topics including immigration, the economy, abortion and their respective records. Mr. Biden seemed to ramble during many of his responses.

CBS News  covered the debate live as it happened . 

Trump claims "we had the greatest economy in the history of our country": False

Trump : "We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. And we have never done so well. Every- everybody was amazed by it. Other countries were copying us." 

Details : Trump's claim is false that during his presidency the U.S. had the greatest economy in the history of the country by many of the common metrics used to judge economic performance. The claim struggles when looking at GDP. If the 2020 pandemic  is excluded, growth after inflation under Trump averaged 2.49%, according to figures from the  World Bank . This is far from the GDP growth under Democratic President Bill Clinton of 3.88%, according to  World Bank data . Including the time period after COVID spread, that average drops to 1.18%. 

Trump's claim also falls short when compared to historical figures. Growth between 1962 to 1966 ranged from 4.4% to 6.6%. In 1950 and 1951, GDP ranged between 8.7% and 8%.

Under Mr. Biden, annual GDP growth is averaging 3.4%, according to the  Associated Press .

*An earlier version of this fact check misstated World Bank figures for growth after inflation under Trump at 2.65%, rather than 2.49%, and 1.45%, instead of 1.18%, and also rounded the growth number for Clinton. This has been updated.

Unemployment

Trump's claim is also false even when evaluating the unemployment rate.    In February 2020, a month before the COVID pandemic affected the economy, the unemployment rate stood at 3.5% — which was the lowest since December 1969 — but not the lowest ever. When Trump's term ended, the unemployment rate was 6.3%.

In 1953, the unemployment rate fell as low as 2.5%. Under Mr. Biden, the unemployment rate is 4%, according to the  most recent data  from May 2024. 

In January 2023 and again in April 2023, the unemployment rate was 3.4%, lower than the best month during Trump's term.

Stock market performance

On Jan. 19, 2021, the  S&P 500-stock average  closed at 67.8% above where it had been the day before Trump was inaugurated in 2017. 

According to  Investopedia ,  at the end of President Barack Obama's first term in office, the S&P closed 84.5% higher. Additionally the S&P gained 79% during President Bill Clinton's first term, and 70% during President Dwight Eisenhower's first term. So far, under President Biden, the  S&P 500 has increased almost 40% , according to calculations on June 13. 

By Laura Doan and Hunter Woodall 

Biden claims he's the only president this century that doesn't have troops dying anywhere in the world: False

Biden: "I'm the only president this century that doesn't have any — this decade — that doesn't have any troops dying anywhere in the world." 

Details : At least 16 U.S. service members have died while serving overseas during Mr. Biden's presidency. Thirteen U.S. service members  died  in an attack at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan in August 2021. Three soldiers were  killed  in an attack in Jordan in January of this year.

By Layla Ferris

Trump claims he did not refer to U.S. soldiers who were killed as "suckers and losers": False

Trump: "First of all, that was a made-up quote. 'Suckers and losers,' they made it up."

Details : Current and former U.S. military service members have detailed to CBS News multiple instances when Trump made disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who were captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at the Aisle-Marne American Cemetery in France in 2018 as "losers" and "suckers."  

A senior Defense Department official and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer with direct knowledge of what was said detailed how Trump said he did not want to visit the cemetery because it was "filled with losers." These accounts were backed independently by two other officials — a former senior U.S. Army officer and a separate, former senior U.S. Marine Corps officer.   

In another conversation on the trip, Trump referred to the 1,800 Marines who died in the World War I battle of Belleau Wood as "suckers" for getting killed.  The Atlantic was first to report Trump's comments in 2020. His former chief of staff John Kelly later confirmed to CNN the essence of what Trump had said.

By James LaPorta and Sierra Sanders 

Biden claims 40% fewer people are crossing border illegally, better than when Trump was in office: Partially true         

Biden: "I've changed it in a way that now you're in a situation where there 40% fewer people coming across the border illegally; it's better than when he left office."

Details : Since Mr. Biden issued a  proclamation  banning most migrants from asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border in early June, illegal crossings there have dropped. In the past week, daily illegal border crossings have averaged roughly 2,000, according to internal Department of Homeland Security data obtained by CBS News. That's a 47% drop from the 3,800  daily average  in May.

During the height of a spike in migration faced by the Trump administration in 2019, Border Patrol recorded an average of 4,300 daily illegal crossings,  government data  show. But there were months during the  Covid-19 pandemic  when the Trump administration averaged fewer than 2,000 illegal border crossings.

By Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Trump claims migrants coming to U.S. and "killing our citizens at a level...we've never seen before": Misleading

Trump: "People are coming in and killing our citizens at a level like we've never seen before." 

Details :  Some migrants who are believed to have entered the U.S. along the southern border in recent years have been charged with murder and other heinous crimes in different parts of the country. They include the suspect in the high-profile murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley .

But while the data on this question is not comprehensive, available  studies  have found that migrants living in the country illegally do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans. 

Government  statistics  also show a very small fraction of migrants processed by Border Patrol have criminal records in the U.S. or other countries that share information with American officials.

On COVID, Trump claims more people died under Biden administration than his: True, but needs context  

Trump: "Remember, more people died under his administration — even though we had largely fixed it — more people died under his administration than our administration, and we were right in the middle of it, something which a lot of people don't like to talk about. But [Biden] had far more people dying in his administration."

Details : More than 460,000 people had died from COVID-19 by the end of the week that Biden was inaugurated in 2021, while more than 725,000 have died in the three years since then, according to data from the  CDC . However, research has found that the counts of COVID-19 deaths, especially in the early days of the pandemic, were likely  undercounted .

By Julia Ingram and Jui Sarwate

In discussing abortion, Trump claims former Virginia governor, a Democrat, supported killing babies: False

Trump: "If you look at the former governor of Virginia, he was willing to do this — he said  'we'll put the baby aside and we'll determine what we'll do with the baby'.. .meaning we'll kill the baby."

Details : In a 2019 radio interview then-governor of Virginia Ralph Northam, in discussing late-term abortions,  addressed a hypothetical scenario in which a fetus was severely deformed or wasn't otherwise viable. He said, "the infant would be delivered, the infant would be kept comfortable, the infant would be resuscitated if that's what the mother and the family desired." 

Northam did not say the fetus should be killed. Killing a newborn baby — or infanticide — is illegal in every state, and not a single state is trying to change that. 

By Laura Doan and Daniel Klaidman

Trump claims Biden "went after" his political opponent in New York "hush money" case to damage him: False        

Trump: "[Biden] basically went after his political opponent (Trump) because he thought it was going to damage me, but when the public found out about these cases, 'cause they understand it better than he does, he has no idea what these cases are, but when they found out about these cases, you know what they did? My poll numbers went up, way up."

Details : There is no federal jurisdiction over a state case. The Manhattan district attorney's office is a  separate entity  from the U.S. Department of Justice. The department does not supervise the work of the Manhattan D.A.'s office, does not approve its charging decisions, and it does not try the D.A.'s cases.

By Pete Villasmil

Trump claims he brought insulin prices down for seniors: Misleading

Trump: "I'm the one that got the insulin down for the seniors. I took care of the seniors."

Details :  During Trump's time as president, Medicare created a voluntary program  in 2020  between some plans and insulin manufacturers that agreed to cap out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 per month. Around  half of  Medicare Advantage or stand-alone prescription drug plans ended up participating by 2021. 

David Ricks, CEO of insulin drugmaker Eli Lilly, has taken credit for pioneering the idea with Trump administration officials at a congressional  hearing  and in an  interview . In the same interview with STAT, Seema Verma, former Medicare agency chief in the Trump administration, gave Ricks the credit for the cap: "He is an unsung hero. He was actually the mastermind of all of this." 

Medicare  ended  the policy in 2023, after Mr. Biden signed into law the  Inflation Reduction Act , which capped insulin costs for Medicare beneficiaries — not just for the portion of plans participating in the program. The law capped insulin costs at the same amount of $35 per month.

By Alexander Tin and Hunter Woodall 

Trump claims Biden wants open borders: False

Trump: "He wants open borders. He wants our country to either be destroyed or he wants to pick up those people as voters." 

Details : When he took office, Mr. Biden reversed numerous Trump-era immigration policies, including a program that required migrants to await their asylum hearings in Mexico. U.S. Border Patrol has also reported record numbers of migrant apprehensions along the southern border during Mr. Biden's presidency. But Mr. Biden has never endorsed or implemented an "open borders" policy.

In fact, Mr. Biden has embraced some restrictive border policies that mirror rules enacted by his predecessor. In 2023, his administration published a regulation that disqualified migrants from asylum if they crossed into the country illegally after not seeking protection in a third country. 

Earlier this month, Mr. Biden enacted an even stricter policy: a proclamation that has partially shut down asylum processing along the border. His administration has also carried out over 4 million deportations, expulsions and returns of migrants since 2021, according to  government data .

Only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections. Most who cross into the U.S. illegally are not on a path to permanent legal status, let alone citizenship. Even those who apply and win asylum — a process that typically takes years to complete — have to wait five years as permanent U.S. residents before applying for American citizenship. There's no evidence to suggest that the Biden administration's border policy is based on a desire to convert migrants into voters.

Biden claims Trump wants to get rid of Social Security: False        

Biden "[Trump] wants to get rid of Social Security. He thinks there's plenty to cut in social security. He's wanted to cut Social Security and Medicare, both times."

Details : Trump has repeatedly  said  he will try to protect Medicare and Social Security. Trump said in a March 21 Truth Social  post  that he would not "under any circumstance" allow Social Security to "be even touched" if he were president. Trump had said in a CNBC  interview  on March 11 that "there is a lot you can do" in terms of "cutting" spending under Social Security. Mr. Biden  said  the comments were proof Trump aimed to make cuts in the programs, but a Trump campaign spokesman  said  Trump was referring to "cutting waste and fraud," not Social Security entitlements.

Trump claims Biden has the "largest deficit" in history of U.S.: False

Trump: "But he's (Biden) got the largest deficit in the history of our country."

Details : The national deficit was the largest it had been in over two decades under Trump's administration, not Mr. Biden's, according to  data from the U.S. Treasury . The deficit peaked in fiscal year 2020 at $3.13 trillion, and declined to $1.7 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2023.

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Julian Assange leaves jail on his way to enter plea deal with the U.S.

WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was released from a British prison and on his way to a remote Pacific island on Tuesday where he will plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to  court documents .

The agreement will free Assange and end the yearslong legal battle over the publication of a trove of classified documents.

Assange was charged by criminal information — which typically signifies a plea deal — with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, the court documents said.

Wikileaks posted footage to X of Assange boarding a plane at Stanstead Airport near London at 5 p.m. (12 p.m. ET) on Monday.

A letter from Justice Department official Matthew McKenzie said Assange would appear in court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S.-controlled territory north of Guam, at 9 a.m. local time Wednesday (7 p.m. ET Tuesday) to plead guilty.

A plane believed to be carrying Assange landed early Tuesday in the Thai capital Bangkok to refuel. He will later arrive for what could be a final court hearing after spending five years in a British jail.

The islands are 3,400 miles north of Australia, Assange's country of citizenship, where the Justice Department expects he will return following the proceedings.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said that "the case has dragged on for too long, there is nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration and we want him brought home to Australia."

Assange's mother, Christine Assange, said in a statement widely reported by Australian media: "I am grateful that my son’s ordeal is finally coming to an end. This shows the importance and power of quiet diplomacy."

His wife, Stella Assange, is currently in Australia with the couple's two children, aged 5 and 7, waiting for his arrival, she told BBC Radio 4. "He will be a free man once it is signed off by a judge," she said, adding that she wasn't sure the deal would happen until the last 24 hours.

She said she was "elated."

Stella Assange, a lawyer, also told the Reuters news agency that she would seek a pardon on her husband's behalf. She said that accepting a guilty plea on an espionage charge created a "very serious concern" for journalists across the world.

U.S. charges against Assange stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during President Barack Obama's first term.

Starting in late 2009, according to the government, Assange conspired with Chelsea Manning , a military intelligence analyst, to use his WikiLeaks website to disclose tens of thousands of activity reports about the war in Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of reports about the war in Iraq, hundreds of thousands of State Department cables and assessment briefs of detainees at the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Court documents revealing Assange's plea deal were filed Monday evening in U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands. Assange was expected to appear in that court and to be sentenced to 62 months, with credit for time served in British prison, meaning he would be free to return to Australia, where he was born.

“This was an independent decision made by the Department of Justice and there was no White House involvement in the plea deal decision,” National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement Monday evening.

Assange has been held in the high-security Belmarsh Prison in east London for five years, and he previously spent seven years in self-exile at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London — where he reportedly fathered two children — until his asylum was withdrawn and he was forcibly carried out of the embassy and arrested in April 2019.

A superseding indictment was returned more than five years ago, in May 2019, and a second superseding indictment was returned in June 2020 .

Assange has been fighting extradition for more than a decade: first in connection with a sex crimes case in Sweden that was eventually dropped, then in connection with the case against him in the United States.

In March, the High Court in London gave him permission for a full hearing on his appeal as he sought assurances that he could rely upon the First Amendment at a trial in the U.S. In May, two judges on the High Court said he could have a full hearing on whether he would be discriminated against in the U.S. because he is a foreign national. A hearing on the issue of Assange's free speech rights had been scheduled for July 9-10 .

WikiLeaks also published hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee that upended the 2016 presidential race. Russian intelligence officers were subsequently indicted in connection with the hacking in 2018 in a case brought by then-special counsel Robert Mueller.

At a joint news conference with then-President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin days later, Trump contradicted the indictment and the intelligence community, saying Putin was " extremely strong and powerful in his denial " that Russians interfered in the 2016 election to help him win.

Manning was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison, but Obama commuted her sentence in the final days of his presidency in 2017. Manning was subsequently held in contempt of court for nearly a year after she refused to answer questions for a grand jury; she was then released after an attempted suicide .

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text   988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline or chat live at  988lifeline.org . You can also visit  SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources  for additional support.

Michael Kosnar and Ryan J. Reilly reported from Washington, and Patrick Smith from London.

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Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps and services.

So what’s Google Gemini, exactly? How can you use it? And how does Gemini stack up to the competition ?

To make it easier to keep up with the latest Gemini developments, we’ve put together this handy guide, which we’ll keep updated as new Gemini models, features and news about Google’s plans for Gemini are released.

What is Gemini?

Gemini is Google’s long-promised , next-gen generative AI model family, developed by Google’s AI research labs DeepMind and Google Research. It comes in four flavors:

• Gemini Ultra , the most performant Gemini model.
• Gemini Pro , a lightweight alternative to Ultra.
• Gemini Flash , a speedier, “distilled” version of Pro.
• Gemini Nano , two small models — Nano-1 and the more capable Nano-2 — meant to run offline on mobile devices.

All Gemini models were trained to be natively multimodal — in other words, able to work with and analyze more than just text. Google says that they were pre-trained and fine-tuned on a variety of public, proprietary and licensed audio, images and videos, a large set of codebases and text in different languages.

This sets Gemini apart from models such as Google’s own LaMDA , which was trained exclusively on text data. LaMDA can’t understand or generate anything beyond text (e.g., essays, email drafts), but that isn’t necessarily the case with Gemini models.

We’ll note here that the ethics and legality of training models on public data, in some cases without the data owners’ knowledge or consent, are murky indeed. Google has an AI indemnification policy to shield certain Google Cloud customers from lawsuits should they face them, but this policy contains carve-outs. Proceed with caution, particularly if you’re intending on using Gemini commercially.

What’s the difference between the Gemini apps and Gemini models?

Google, proving once again that it lacks a knack for branding , didn’t make it clear from the outset that Gemini is separate and distinct from the Gemini apps on the web and mobile ( formerly Bard ).

The Gemini apps are clients that connect to various Gemini models — Gemini Ultra (with Gemini Advanced, see below) and Gemini Pro so far — and layer chatbot-like interfaces on top. Think of them as front ends for Google’s generative AI, analogous to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude family of apps .

Gemini on the web lives here . On Android, the Gemini app replaces the existing Google Assistant app. And on iOS, the Google and Google Search apps serve as that platform’s Gemini clients.

Gemini apps can accept images as well as voice commands and text — including files like PDFs and soon videos, either uploaded or imported from Google Drive — and generate images. As you’d expect, conversations with Gemini apps on mobile carry over to Gemini on the web and vice versa if you’re signed in to the same Google Account in both places.

Gemini in Gmail, Docs, Chrome, dev tools and more

The Gemini apps aren’t the only means of recruiting Gemini models’ assistance with tasks. Slowly but surely, Gemini-imbued features are making their way into staple Google apps and services like Gmail and Google Docs.

To take advantage of most of these, you’ll need the Google One AI Premium Plan. Technically a part of  Google One , the AI Premium Plan costs $20 and provides access to Gemini in Google Workspace apps like Docs, Slides, Sheets and Meet. It also enables what Google calls Gemini Advanced, which brings Gemini Ultra to the Gemini apps plus support for analyzing and answering questions about uploaded files.

Gemini Advanced users get extras here and there, also, like trip planning in Google Search, which creates custom travel itineraries from prompts. Taking into account things like flight times (from emails in a user’s Gmail inbox), meal preferences and information about local attractions (from Google Search and Maps data), as well as the distances between those attractions, Gemini will generate an itinerary that updates automatically to reflect any changes. 

In Gmail, Gemini lives in a side panel that can write emails and summarize message threads. You’ll find the same panel in Docs, where it helps you write and refine your content and brainstorm new ideas. Gemini in Slides generates slides and custom images. And Gemini in Google Sheets tracks and organizes data, creating tables and formulas.

Gemini’s reach extends to Drive, as well, where it can summarize files and give quick facts about a project. In Meet, meanwhile, Gemini translates captions into additional languages.

Gemini recently came to Google’s Chrome browser in the form of an AI writing tool. You can use it to write something completely new or rewrite existing text; Google says it’ll take into account the webpage you’re on to make recommendations.

Elsewhere, you’ll find hints of Gemini in Google’s database products , cloud security tools , app development platforms (including Firebase and Project IDX ), not to mention apps like Google TV (where Gemini generates descriptions for movies and TV shows), Google Photos (where it handles natural language search queries) and the NotebookLM note-taking assistant .

Code Assist (formerly  Duet AI for Developers ), Google’s suite of AI-powered assistance tools for code completion and generation, is offloading heavy computational lifting to Gemini. So are Google’s security products underpinned by Gemini , like Gemini in Threat Intelligence, which can analyze large portions of potentially malicious code and let users perform natural language searches for ongoing threats or indicators of compromise.

Gemini Gems custom chatbots

Announced at Google I/O 2024, Gemini Advanced users will be able to create Gems , custom chatbots powered by Gemini models, in the future. Gems can be generated from natural language descriptions — for example, “You’re my running coach. Give me a daily running plan” — and shared with others or kept private.

Eventually, Gems will be able to tap an expanded set of integrations with Google services, including Google Calendar, Tasks, Keep and YouTube Music, to complete various tasks.

Gemini Live in-depth voice chats

A new experience called Gemini Live , exclusive to Gemini Advanced subscribers, will arrive soon on the Gemini apps on mobile, letting users have “in-depth” voice chats with Gemini.

With Gemini Live enabled, users will be able to interrupt Gemini while the chatbot’s speaking to ask clarifying questions, and it’ll adapt to their speech patterns in real time. And Gemini will be able to see and respond to users’ surroundings, either via photos or video captured by their smartphones’ cameras.

Live is also designed to serve as a virtual coach of sorts, helping users rehearse for events, brainstorm ideas and so on. For instance, Live can suggest which skills to highlight in an upcoming job or internship interview, and it can give public speaking advice.

What can the Gemini models do?

Because Gemini models are multimodal, they can perform a range of multimodal tasks, from transcribing speech to captioning images and videos in real time. Many of these capabilities have reached the product stage (as alluded to in the previous section), and Google is promising much more in the not-too-distant future.

Of course, it’s a bit hard to take the company at its word.

Google seriously underdelivered with the original Bard launch. More recently, it ruffled feathers with a video purporting to show Gemini’s capabilities that was more or less aspirational, not live, and with an image generation feature that turned out to be offensively inaccurate .

Also, Google offers no fix for some of the underlying problems with generative AI tech today, like its encoded biases and tendency to make things up (i.e. hallucinate ). Neither do its rivals, but it’s something to keep in mind when considering using or paying for Gemini.

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Assuming for the purposes of this article that Google is being truthful with its recent claims, here’s what the different tiers of Gemini can do now and what they’ll be able to do once they reach their full potential:

What you can do with Gemini Ultra

Google says that Gemini Ultra — thanks to its multimodality — can be used to help with things like physics homework, solving problems step-by-step on a worksheet and pointing out possible mistakes in already filled-in answers.

Ultra can also be applied to tasks such as identifying scientific papers relevant to a problem, Google says. The model could extract information from several papers, for instance, and update a chart from one by generating the formulas necessary to re-create the chart with more timely data.

Gemini Ultra technically supports image generation. But that capability hasn’t made its way into the productized version of the model yet — perhaps because the mechanism is more complex than how apps such as ChatGPT generate images. Rather than feed prompts to an image generator (like DALL-E 3 , in ChatGPT’s case), Gemini outputs images “natively,” without an intermediary step.

Ultra is available as an API through Vertex AI, Google’s fully managed AI dev platform, and AI Studio, Google’s web-based tool for app and platform developers. It also powers Google’s Gemini apps, but not for free. Once again, access to Ultra through any Gemini app requires subscribing to the AI Premium Plan.

Gemini Pro’s capabilities

Google says that Gemini Pro is an improvement over LaMDA in its reasoning, planning and understanding capabilities. The latest version, Gemini 1.5 Pro , exceeds even Ultra’s performance in some areas, Google claims.

Gemini 1.5 Pro is improved in a number of areas compared with its predecessor, Gemini 1.0 Pro, perhaps most obviously in the amount of data that it can process. Gemini 1.5 Pro can take in up to 1.4 million words, two hours of video or 22 hours of audio, and reason across or answer questions about all that data.

1.5 Pro became generally available on Vertex AI and AI Studio in June alongside a feature called code execution, which aims to reduce bugs in code that the model generates by iteratively refining that code over several steps. (Code execution also supports Gemini Flash.)

Within Vertex AI, developers can customize Gemini Pro to specific contexts and use cases via a fine-tuning or “grounding” process. For example, Pro (along with other Gemini models) can be instructed to use data from third-party providers like Moody’s, Thomson Reuters, ZoomInfo and MSCI, or source information from corporate data sets or Google Search instead of its wider knowledge bank. Gemini Pro can also be connected to external, third-party APIs to perform particular actions, like automating a workflow.

Google brings Gemini Pro to Vertex AI

AI Studio offers templates for creating structured chat prompts with Pro. Developers can control the model’s creative range and provide examples to give tone and style instructions — and also tune Pro’s safety settings.

Vertex AI Agent Builder lets people build Gemini-powered “agents” within Vertex AI. For example, a company could create an agent that analyzes previous marketing campaigns to understand a brand style, and then apply that knowledge to help generate new ideas consistent with the style. 

Gemini Flash is for less demanding work

For less demanding applications, there’s Gemini Flash. The newest version is 1.5 Flash.

An offshoot of Gemini Pro that’s small and efficient, built for narrow, high-frequency generative AI workloads, Flash is multimodal like Gemini Pro, meaning it can analyze audio, video and images as well as text (but only generate text).

Flash is particularly well-suited for tasks such as summarization, chat apps, image and video captioning and data extraction from long documents and tables, Google says. It’ll be generally available via Vertex AI and AI Studio by mid-July.

Devs using Flash and Pro can optionally leverage context caching, which lets them store large amounts of information (say, a knowledge base or database of research papers) in a cache that Gemini models can quickly and relatively cheaply access. Context caching is an additional fee on top of other Gemini model usage fees, however.

Gemini Nano can run on your phone

Gemini Nano is a much smaller version of the Gemini Pro and Ultra models, and it’s efficient enough to run directly on (some) phones instead of sending the task to a server somewhere. So far, Nano powers a couple of features on the Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8 and Samsung Galaxy S24 , including Summarize in Recorder and Smart Reply in Gboard.

The Recorder app, which lets users push a button to record and transcribe audio, includes a Gemini-powered summary of recorded conversations, interviews, presentations and other audio snippets. Users get summaries even if they don’t have a signal or Wi-Fi connection — and in a nod to privacy, no data leaves their phone in the process.

Nano is also in Gboard, Google’s keyboard replacement. There, it powers a feature called Smart Reply, which helps to suggest the next thing you’ll want to say when having a conversation in a messaging app. The feature initially only works with WhatsApp but will come to more apps over time, Google says.

In the Google Messages app on supported devices, Nano drives Magic Compose, which can craft messages in styles like “excited,” “formal” and “lyrical.”

Google says that a future version of Android will tap Nano to alert users to potential scams during calls. And soon, TalkBack, Google’s accessibility service, will employ Nano to create aural descriptions of objects for low-vision and blind users.

Is Gemini better than OpenAI’s GPT-4?

Google has several times  touted  Gemini’s superiority on benchmarks, claiming that Gemini Ultra exceeds current state-of-the-art results on “30 of the 32 widely used academic benchmarks used in large language model research and development.” But leaving aside the question of whether benchmarks really indicate a better model , the scores Google points to appear to be only marginally better than OpenAI’s GPT-4 models.

OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-4o , pulls ahead of 1.5 Pro pretty substantially on text evaluation, visual understanding and audio translation performance, meanwhile. Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats them both — but perhaps not for long, given the AI industry’s breakneck pace.

How much do the Gemini models cost?

Gemini 1.0 Pro (the first version of Gemini Pro), 1.5 Pro and Flash are available through Google’s Gemini API for building apps and services, all with free options. But the free options impose usage limits and leave out some features, like context caching.

Otherwise, Gemini models are pay-as-you-go. Here’s the base pricing (not including add-ons like context caching) as of June 2024:

• Gemini 1.0 Pro: 50 cents per 1 million input tokens, $1.50 per 1 million output tokens
• Gemini 1.5 Pro: $3.05 per 1 million tokens input (for prompts up to 128,000 tokens) or $7 per 1 million tokens (for prompts longer than 128,000 tokens); $10.50 per 1 million tokens (for prompts up to 128,000 tokens) or $21.00 per 1 million tokens (for prompts longer than 128,000)
• Gemini 1.5 Flash: 35 cents per 1 million tokens (for prompts up to 128K tokens), 70 cents per 1 million tokens (for prompts longer than 128K); $1.05 per 1 million tokens (for prompts up to 128K tokens), $2.10 per 1 million tokens (for prompts longer than 128K)

Tokens are subdivided bits of raw data, like the syllables “fan,” “tas” and “tic” in the word “fantastic”; 1 million tokens is equivalent to about 700,000 words. “Input” refers to tokens fed into the model, while “output” refers to tokens that the model generates.

Ultra pricing has yet to be announced, and Nano is still in early access .

Is Gemini coming to the iPhone?

It might!  Apple and Google are reportedly in talks to put Gemini to use  for a number of features to be included in an upcoming iOS update later this year. Nothing’s definitive, as Apple is also said to be in talks with OpenAI and  has been working on developing its own generative AI capabilities .

Following a keynote presentation at WWDC 2024, Apple SVP Craig Federighi confirmed plans to work with additional third-party models including Gemini, but didn’t divulge additional details.

This post was originally published Feb. 16, 2024 and has since been updated to include new information about Gemini and Google’s plans for it.

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