Best AI voice and audio tools in October 2026

Text to speech, voice cloning, transcription and dictation, and clean-up for recordings and calls. Below are the 25 that Raunak picked, in Radar's order, then the most popular of the other 393 in this category on Radar.

1. 1ElevenLabsLifelike voices, voice cloning, dubbing and voice agents.Free plan
2. 2KokoroA tiny open text-to-speech model that sounds natural and runs right in the browser.Open source
3. 3WhisperOpenAI's open speech recognition, transcribes and translates nearly any language.Open source
4. 4Wispr FlowDictation that works in any app and tidies up what you said as you speak.Free plan
5. 5Adobe PodcastMakes a laptop-mic recording sound like it was made in a studio.Free plan
6. 6HumeExpressive voices that understand and answer with emotion.Free plan
7. 7CartesiaUltra-fast voice generation for real-time voice agents.Free plan
8. 8KrispRemoves background noise and echo from calls, and takes the meeting notes.Free plan
9. 9MurfStudio-quality voice-overs from text, with many voices and languages.Free plan
10. 10WellSaidNatural AI voices for training, ads and product narration.Paid
11. 11SpeechifyReads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural voices.Free plan
12. 12NaturalReaderText-to-speech for reading anything aloud, in the browser or an app.Free plan
13. 13Resemble AIVoice cloning and speech generation, with deepfake detection built in.Paid
14. 14VoicemodA real-time voice changer for games, streams and calls.Free plan
15. 15DeepgramFast speech-to-text and voice APIs for developers.Free plan
16. 16AssemblyAIAccurate transcription and audio intelligence through an API.Free plan
17. 17RevTranscripts and captions by AI, or by people when it has to be perfect.Paid
18. 18SuperwhisperDictation for your computer that runs Whisper locally.Free plan
19. 19AuphonicAutomatic audio post-production: levels, noise and loudness, done.Free plan
20. 20CleanvoiceRemoves filler words, mouth sounds and silences from recordings.Paid
21. 21PodcastleRecord, edit and enhance podcasts in the browser.Free plan
22. 22Retell AIPhone agents that talk with callers naturally, built in minutes.Paid
23. 23VapiA developer platform for real-time voice agents.Paid
24. 24BlandAI phone calls at scale for sales and support teams.Paid
25. 25SesameA strikingly natural voice companion you can just talk to.Free

Free to start: ElevenLabs, Kokoro, Whisper all have a free plan or are free outright.

Popular open-source AI voice and audio tools on GitHub

By stars on GitHub.

1. transformers🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal…★ 167,789
2. deer-flowAn open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill,…★ 84,013
3. GPT-SoVITS1 min voice data can also be used to train a good TTS model! (few shot voice cloning)★ 63,001
4. Real-Time-Voice-CloningClone a voice in 5 seconds to generate arbitrary speech in real-time★ 60,189
5. voiceboxThe open-source AI voice studio. Clone, dictate, create.★ 57,819
6. whisper.cppPort of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++★ 54,447
7. TTS🐸💬 - a deep learning toolkit for Text-to-Speech, battle-tested in research and production★ 46,128
8. ChatTTSA generative speech model for daily dialogue.★ 39,913
9. VoxCPMVoxCPM2: Tokenizer-Free TTS for Multilingual Speech Generation, Creative Voice Design, and True-to-Life Cloning★ 39,461
10. OpenVoiceInstant voice cloning by MIT and MyShell. Audio foundation model.★ 37,911

Apps to try in the browser, on Hugging Face Spaces

By likes on Hugging Face.

1. ❤Kokoro TTSUpgraded to v1.0!♥ 3,523
2. 🗣F5-TTSF5-TTS & E2-TTS: Zero-Shot Voice Cloning (Unofficial Demo)♥ 2,912
3. 🔥Realistic Text To Speech UnlimitedFree Text-To-Speech generator with Emotion control (OpenAI)♥ 1,764
4. 🍿Chatterbox TTSExpressive Zeroshot TTS♥ 1,758
5. 🌍OmniVoiceHigh-quality voice cloning TTS for 600+ languages♥ 1,416
6. 🌱Sesame CSMConversational speech generation♥ 864
7. 🥖Parler-TTSHigh-fidelity Text-To-Speech♥ 848
8. 🎙HF Realtime VoiceRealtime voice over WebSocket or WebRTC♥ 580
9. 🌍tts Text To SpeechText-to-speech (TTS) with Next-gen Kaldi♥ 526
10. 🤗TTS Spaces ArenaBlind vote on HF TTS models!♥ 492

Launched on Product Hunt

By upvotes on Product Hunt.

1. CovalSimulation & evals to ship delightful voice & chat AI agents▲ 1,003
2. Universal 2Speech-to-text for conversational data▲ 892
3. PollyReachGive your agent a real number and voice to make calls.▲ 770
4. Voicenotes PagesWhat if publishing felt like talking to a friend?▲ 755
5. Zefi 1.0Transform user voice into value▲ 724
6. Conversational AI 2.0 From ElevenLabsPowering the next-gen of smart, trusted voice agents▲ 629
7. ThunaiHuman-like AI agents with real-time voice & screen assist▲ 625
8. LyraRecord, transcribe + auto‑create action items for every call▲ 584
9. TypelessAI voice dictation that's actually intelligent▲ 584
10. VoceraLaunch voice agents faster with simulation & monitoring▲ 576