Play.ht
AI voice generator and cloning platform for ultra-realistic text-to-speech audio
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About
Play.ht is an advanced AI voice generation platform offering ultra-realistic text-to-speech conversion and voice cloning capabilities. Its library of 900+ AI voices spans 142 languages and accents, with voices designed for different contexts — narration, conversational, news broadcast, and character voices for games and media.
Play.ht's voice cloning feature allows users to create a custom AI voice from a short audio recording — capturing the speaker's tone, accent, and vocal characteristics to produce a personalized voice model that can speak any text. This is used by content creators who want to scale their content production in their own voice, podcast producers, and accessibility applications.
The platform's PlayHT 2.0 Turbo model produces conversational speech with emotional expressiveness and natural pauses that make generated audio difficult to distinguish from human recordings. For developers, Play.ht's streaming API enables real-time voice generation for conversational AI applications, interactive content, and voice interfaces.
Play.ht's voice cloning feature allows users to create a custom AI voice from a short audio recording — capturing the speaker's tone, accent, and vocal characteristics to produce a personalized voice model that can speak any text. This is used by content creators who want to scale their content production in their own voice, podcast producers, and accessibility applications.
The platform's PlayHT 2.0 Turbo model produces conversational speech with emotional expressiveness and natural pauses that make generated audio difficult to distinguish from human recordings. For developers, Play.ht's streaming API enables real-time voice generation for conversational AI applications, interactive content, and voice interfaces.
Product Features
- 900+ AI voices in 142 languages
- Voice cloning from 30-second audio samples
- Play.ht 2.0: emotionally expressive conversational speech
- Streaming API for real-time generation
- Ultra-low latency for live applications
- SSML support for advanced speech control
- Podcast and long-form narration mode
- Multi-voice conversations and dialogues
- Commercial license on all generated audio
- WordPress plugin for text-to-speech articles
- Voice cloning from 30-second audio samples
- Play.ht 2.0: emotionally expressive conversational speech
- Streaming API for real-time generation
- Ultra-low latency for live applications
- SSML support for advanced speech control
- Podcast and long-form narration mode
- Multi-voice conversations and dialogues
- Commercial license on all generated audio
- WordPress plugin for text-to-speech articles
About the Publisher
Play.ht was founded in 2016 by Hammad Siddiqui and Ireneus Gowgi. The company has continuously improved its voice quality and expanded its voice library, growing to serve over 100,000 customers including major publishing companies, podcasters, and enterprises using AI voice for customer service and content. Play.ht's investment in proprietary model development — including the PlayHT 2.0 series — has helped establish it as one of the leading voice quality providers in the AI audio space.