ToneCraftReview: a recording into a voice-over

ElevenLabs started out as the voice cloning tool and now covers most of the audio job. Creative Studio 3.0 puts video, captions, narration, music and sound effects on one timeline. Scribe v2 transcribes speech in more than 90 languages, with timestamps for every word and labels for each speaker. Music v2 lets you shape a song's structure and arrangement instead of taking whatever comes out. For a lot of people that means one subscription instead of separate tools for narration, dubbing, effects and music. The dubbing keeps the original speaker's emotion and delivery in the new language, which is handy for podcasters and course creators who want to reach other countries. There's also ElevenAgents, for building phone and support agents with their own workflows and integrations. It's a big product now. If all you need is one voice-over, it may be more than you need.

CastReader reads web pages, PDFs, Google Docs and Kindle books out loud, highlighting each word as it goes and scrolling for you. It's a Chrome and Edge extension, with apps for iPhone and Android. When a passage gets dense, Read & Explain adds notes to the page and talks you through it, so you keep the original text instead of getting a summary. It recognizes nine languages on its own. You can start free without signing up: 20 minutes of reading and three explanations a day. Kindle is where it beats everyone else. Amazon's web reader scrambles its fonts, so extensions like Speechify, NaturalReader and Read Aloud end up reading gibberish. CastReader runs OCR in your browser on what's actually on screen, gets the words back, highlights them as it reads and turns the pages itself. It doesn't download or decrypt your books. It only reads what you're already looking at.

Suno writes and produces a complete song from a short text prompt, with vocals, instruments, lyrics and arrangement. Version 5.5 sings with real feeling in pretty much any genre, whether that's indie folk, hip-hop or orchestral. The Pro plan is $8 a month and includes full commercial rights, which makes it the cheapest way to get from "I need a track" to a song you're allowed to use. The lawsuit from Universal and Sony keeps Suno in the news, so check where that stands before you build a business on it. The product keeps getting better, and its vocals are the best of any AI music tool right now. Udio gives you finer control over the instruments. The free plan gives you 50 credits, enough to hear whether the quality is good enough for you, and Custom Models let you train it on your own style.

Strawberry is a desktop browser for Mac and Windows with AI "companions" that work inside your open tabs. Ask Sales Sally for prospects from LinkedIn and she builds the lead list in a Google Sheet, with company names and a fit rating. Talent Theo scores candidates against a role. Executive Ellis writes a morning brief and tracks follow-ups. You can also build your own companion around a process your team repeats every week. Because it's a real browser, the companions can work on pages behind your logins, like LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Gmail. Strawberry says passwords, cookies, and history stay on your machine, and you set permissions per app and per action. It also transcribes Zoom, Teams, and Meet calls without a bot joining. Browsing is free. Companion work costs credits: 500 a month free, then $20 for 6,000, up to $250 for 75,000.