CharacterLingo alternatives

**2021 Update** Hootsy helps companies get more customers with live video. We no longer create voice interactive characters as shown in this post. We get people coming from here asking about it, so we wanted to clarify.

Polly Speech is a text-to-speech application that allows you to turn any text into lifelike speech. It enables you to create various media content such as audiobooks, podcasts, voice content, and also applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. You can convert your documents into audio files for listening anywhere. Use our AI Powered Natural Text to Speech and Voice Converter to create realistic voices for any text in seconds by using over +909 realistic voices across +148 languages & dialects. Features of Polly Speech Support for over 144+ Languages and Dialects Support for over 909+ Different Voices and Accents Natural sounding voices (Neural TTS) Google WaveNet Voices Various Combination of Voice Effects for Standard Voices Various Combination of Voice Effects for Neural Voices Powerful Sound Studio Use any of +909 voices in a single Text Synthesize Task Mix up to 20 voices in a single Text Synthesize Task Process up to 60000 characters in a single Text Synthesize Task Multiple Audio Output Formats: MP3 (AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM) OGG (AWS/GCP/IBM/Azure) WAV (GCP/IBM) WEBM (Azure) Store & redistribute speech easily via social media Near Real-time text synthesize Customize & control speech output Optimize Your Streaming Audio Adjust Speaking Styles (For Neural Voices) Adjust Speech Rate, Pitch, and Loudness Adjust Speaking Emphasis Pronounce digits/dates/words/abbreviations properly Add work/phrase replacement effect Mute/Beep Out any part of text/sentence Synthesize Large Text Conveniently Share synthesize results or Download