ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs produces text-to-speech that is close enough to natural speech to be usable in published work, across a wide range of languages.

Its practical applications are narration for video, audiobook production and dubbing content into other languages while keeping a consistent voice — tasks that previously required a studio and a voice actor.

Voice cloning raises obvious consent questions. The platform requires verification to clone a voice, but anyone publishing synthetic speech should be clear about the rights to the voice being used.