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Voice and music

Turn writing into a spoken voice, or a few words into a whole song with lyrics. Voice is useful for reading things aloud, narration, and anyone who would rather listen than read.

Music is mostly for fun, and it is good enough now that you should say when something was made this way.

Our picks

checked sep 2026. we say what each one is bad at on purpose.

Start herehas a free plan

ElevenLabs

good at: The most natural reading voices. Paste text, pick a voice, get audio in a minute. It can clone your own voice too.
bad at: The free plan is about ten minutes a month, and cloning a voice that is not yours is not okay.

web · iPhone · Android

Open ElevenLabs ↗

Best freehas a free plan

Suno

good at: A full song with lyrics, singing and instruments from one sentence. Genuinely fun.
bad at: Songs start to sound alike after a few, and what you may do with them commercially depends on your plan.

web · iPhone · Android

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Try this first

Open ElevenLabs, paste this in, and change the parts in brackets. That is the whole first step.

Make a birthday song

copy it, paste it into the tool, change the parts in [brackets]

An upbeat acoustic song for a kid's fifth birthday. Mention [their name], two short verses and a chorus, under two minutes.

Go deeper

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The companies and their models

Who makes what, what each is known for, and which one is on your phone. Written for September 2026, and dated on purpose, because this changes monthly.

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Staying safe and sensible

The handful of habits that keep a beginner out of trouble. Privacy, money, mistakes, and the one trick that fools agents.

Do something with it

The fastest way to learn a tool is a real job.

Say who you are and we hand you one, in about ten minutes, with the prompt written.

Pick who you are