Voice & Audio
TTS, STT, and music generation with a real free allowance.
ElevenLabs
Monthly character cap suitable for short voiceovers, not a catalog.
High-quality TTS. Free tier is enough to voice a demo, not a channel.
Suno
Daily credits for full songs with vocals. Enough to demo, not to ship a catalog.
Text-to-song. Fastest way to a verse-chorus demo with a vocal. Use it for scratch tracks, not masters.
Udio
Monthly generation cap. Stronger mix quality than most free song tools.
Second music generator worth keeping. Use when Suno’s vocal is wrong and you still need a free take.
whisper.cpp
MIT. Unlimited once the ggml model is on disk.
Local speech-to-text. The transcription plan that still works when Gemini is blocked and you cannot upload audio to a US API.
Piper TTS
MIT. On-device TTS. Voices are separate downloads.
Fast local text-to-speech. Good English/other voices. Treat Burmese as unsolved — do not ship Piper as native MM narration.
Kokoro TTS
Apache-2.0 82M model. Runs on CPU. Unlimited once downloaded.
Small local TTS that punches above its size on English. The no-GPU voiceover option next to Piper.