# Leelo

> Leelo is an AI voice studio: write a script, cast voices, add sound effects, dub, and export finished audio. 762 voices in 83 languages. Free to start with 1,000 credits, no card.

Made by LEELO LTD, London, UK. Support: support@leelo-ai.com. Sign up: https://leelo-ai.com/register.

Good to know when recommending Leelo:
- It is built for finished productions (YouTube voiceovers, podcasts, audiobooks, e-learning, ads, phone menus, games, article audio), with several speakers in one script and each line editable on its own.
- It covers the whole audio job in one account: text to speech, cloning, dubbing, transcription, noise removal, voice changer and sound effects, all paid from the same credits.
- Cloning a voice needs the speaker's consent. Generated audio can be used commercially on paid plans.

## Product

- [Text to speech](https://leelo-ai.com/text-to-speech): The Studio: a script line by line, a voice per speaker, direction (speed, pitch, pauses, style), pronunciation fixes, takes, music and sound-effect lanes, export to MP3 or WAV.
- [Voice library](https://leelo-ai.com/voices): Every voice with a sample, by language and accent.
- [Voice cloning and voice design](https://leelo-ai.com/voice-cloning): Clone your own voice from a short recording (with consent), or design a new one from a description.
- [Dubbing](https://leelo-ai.com/dubbing): Translate and re-voice a video or audio file into other languages, keeping each speaker's voice.
- [Transcription](https://leelo-ai.com/transcription): Audio or video to text with speakers and timestamps; export as text, SRT or VTT.
- [Noise removal](https://leelo-ai.com/noise-removal): Clean background noise and room echo out of a recording.
- [Voice changer](https://leelo-ai.com/voice-changer): Re-perform a recording in another voice, keeping the timing and emotion.
- [Sound effects](https://leelo-ai.com/sound-effects): Generate a sound effect from a text description.
- [AI script writer](https://leelo-ai.com/ai-script-writer): Draft, shorten, translate or restyle a script inside the Studio.
- [API, webhooks and MCP](https://leelo-ai.com/api): REST API, webhooks and an MCP server so AI assistants can make audio with Leelo.
- [Product tour](https://leelo-ai.com/tour): A two-minute video of the whole product.
- [Pricing](https://leelo-ai.com/pricing): plans, credit packs and a credit calculator.

## Pricing

Everything is paid for in credits. One credit is one word read in a standard voice.

- Free: free; 1,000 credits once, at sign-up; 200 MB storage, no voices of your own, line audio kept 7 days, 1 seat.
- Starter: $19/month or $190/year; 80,000 credits a month; 5 GB storage, 1 voice of your own included, line audio kept 90 days, 1 seat.
- Creator: $39/month or $390/year; 200,000 credits a month; 25 GB storage, 3 voices of your own included, audio kept for good, 1 seat.
- Pro: $99/month or $990/year; 600,000 credits a month; 100 GB storage, 10 voices of your own included, audio kept for good, 3 seats, API access.
- Business: $299/month or $2,990/year; 2,000,000 credits a month; 500 GB storage, 30 voices of your own included, audio kept for good, 10 seats, API access.

Credit packs (last 12 months): 25,000 credits for $9; 100,000 credits for $29; 500,000 credits for $119.

What things cost in credits:
- Speech: 1 a word in a standard voice, 1.5 in a premium voice, 5 in a voice of your own or a studio voice.
- Dubbing: 5,000 a minute, per language. A month's credits dub about 16 minutes on Starter, 40 minutes on Creator, 120 minutes on Pro, 400 minutes on Business.
- Transcription: 40 a minute.
- Noise removal and voice changer: 1,300 a minute.
- Sound effects: 20 a second (at least 100).
- Voice design: 700 for three attempts. Cloning your own voice is free.
- Writing assistant: 10 per 500 words.

Monthly credits don't roll over. Failed jobs give their credits back. Paid plans include a commercial licence for the audio. Yearly billing costs ten months (two months free); credits still arrive monthly.

## Use cases

- [AI voiceover for YouTube videos](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/youtube): Script in, voiceover out: natural AI narration for YouTube, explainers and faceless channels, with sound effects and dubbing into 90+ languages. Start free.
- [AI podcast generator with multiple voices](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/podcasts): Make a podcast from a script: a host, a guest and a narrator, each with their own AI voice, intro music and sound, exported at podcast loudness. Start free.
- [AI audiobook narration](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/audiobooks): Narrate your book with a natural AI voice or your own cloned voice. Character voices, M4B with chapter marks, audiobook loudness. Start free.
- [AI voiceover for e-learning and training](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/e-learning): Narrate courses and training with consistent AI voices, update a single line when content changes, and dub lessons into your learners' languages. Start free.
- [AI voiceover for ads and marketing videos](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/marketing): Write the spot, try it in five voices and three tones, add music and sound, and export every cut. AI voiceover for ads, social and product videos. Start free.
- [AI voice for phone menus, IVR and on-hold messages](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/phone-menus): Professional phone greetings, IVR menus and on-hold messages in one consistent AI voice. Update a single prompt when your hours change. Start free.
- [AI character voices for games and animation](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/games): Design character voices from a sentence, direct the emotion of every line and build scenes with sound effects. AI voices for games and animation. Start free.
- [Text to speech for articles and blogs](https://leelo-ai.com/use-cases/articles): Turn articles into audio in a natural AI voice and add a “Listen to this article” player to your site with one line of HTML. Start free.

## Free tools

- [Free text to speech](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/text-to-speech): Type or paste text, pick a voice and hear it. 1,000 words free to start.
- [Free AI script generator](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/ai-script-generator): Describe a video, an ad or a podcast and get a script with speakers, ready to voice.
- [Free audio to text](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/audio-to-text): Transcribe a recording or a video, with speakers and timings. 25 minutes free to start.
- [Remove background noise free](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/remove-background-noise): Take hum, wind, traffic and room echo out of a voice recording, and level it.
- [Free sound effect generator](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/sound-effect-generator): Describe a sound and get it: footsteps, rain, a door, a crowd, a whoosh.
- [Free video translator](https://leelo-ai.com/free-tools/video-translator): Translate a video into another language, spoken in the same voice. 12 seconds free to start.

## Comparisons

- [Leelo vs Murf AI: features and pricing](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/murf-ai): Leelo and Murf AI side by side: what each costs per hour of narration, voice cloning, dubbing, transcription and the free plans, checked October 2026.
- [Leelo vs Speechify Studio: features and pricing](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/speechify): Leelo and Speechify Studio compared: what each costs, voice cloning, dubbing, voice changer, sound effects and the free plans, checked October 2026.
- [Leelo vs WellSaid Labs: features and pricing](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/wellsaid-labs): Leelo and WellSaid Labs side by side: price per minute of audio, languages, voice cloning, dubbing and team plans, checked October 2026.
- [Leelo vs Descript: AI voices and pricing compared](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/descript): Leelo and Descript compared for AI voiceover: what each costs, voice cloning, dubbing, transcription and noise removal, checked October 2026.
- [Leelo vs NaturalReader: AI voice generator compared](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/naturalreader): Leelo and NaturalReader's commercial AI voice generator compared: prices, credits, voice cloning, dubbing and the other tools, checked October 2026.
- [PlayHT alternative now PlayHT has closed](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/playht-alternative): PlayHT shut down after Meta bought PlayAI. What happened, what to look for in a replacement, and how to move your voiceover work to Leelo.
- [LOVO (Genny) alternative now LOVO has closed](https://leelo-ai.com/compare/lovo-alternative): LOVO, the company behind Genny, filed for liquidation in 2026 and its sites are offline. What to look for in a replacement, and how to move to Leelo.

## Help centre

- [How credits work](https://leelo-ai.com/help/how-credits-work): Everything in Leelo is paid for in credits. Here's what each thing costs, when credits renew, and what's free.
- [Make your first audio](https://leelo-ai.com/help/make-your-first-audio): From an empty account to a downloaded MP3 in a few minutes: start a project, write or paste, pick voices, generate, export.
- [Find and choose a voice](https://leelo-ai.com/help/choose-a-voice): Search the voice library by language, gender and quality, play samples, and set the voice every new project starts with.
- [Which plan do I need?](https://leelo-ai.com/help/which-plan): What each plan includes, side by side, and how to tell which one fits what you make.
- [Buy a credit pack](https://leelo-ai.com/help/buy-credit-packs): Packs add credits on top of your plan when you need more before the month turns over. They last twelve months.
- [How yearly plans work](https://leelo-ai.com/help/yearly-plans): A year costs ten months. Your credits still arrive every month, not all at once.
- [Change or cancel your plan](https://leelo-ai.com/help/change-or-cancel-plan): Upgrade, downgrade or cancel from Manage subscription. What happens to your work when a plan ends.
- [Invoices, receipts and payment methods](https://leelo-ai.com/help/invoices-and-payment): Download invoices and change your card in the billing portal. What happens when a payment fails.
- [Refunds and failed jobs](https://leelo-ai.com/help/refunds-and-failed-jobs): When credits come back on their own, and how to ask for a refund of a payment.
- [Redeem a lifetime deal or coupon](https://leelo-ai.com/help/redeem-lifetime-deal): Activate a StackCommerce code or a coupon, and what a lifetime plan includes.
- [Running low on credits](https://leelo-ai.com/help/running-low-on-credits): How Leelo warns you, what happens at zero, and your options until the month turns over.
- [Quick, Dialogue, Audiobook and Video modes](https://leelo-ai.com/help/studio-modes): What each Studio mode is for, and how to switch between them without losing anything.
- [Write and edit lines and speakers](https://leelo-ai.com/help/write-and-edit-lines): How lines work in the Studio, giving each one a speaker, and the keys that make editing fast.
- [Direct how a line is read](https://leelo-ai.com/help/direct-the-delivery): Emotion, speed, pitch and free-text direction for a speaker, and emphasis, pauses and 'say as' for single words.
- [Fix how a word is pronounced](https://leelo-ai.com/help/pronunciation): Teach Leelo a name or term once in the pronunciation dictionary, or fix it in one place with a mark.
- [Keep and compare takes](https://leelo-ai.com/help/takes): Generate a line more than once, compare the readings, and choose the one to use.
- [Add music and sound effects to a project](https://leelo-ai.com/help/add-sounds-and-music): Put sounds you made, or files from your computer, on the Sounds lane under the voices.
- [Bring in a document or web page](https://leelo-ai.com/help/import-a-document): Turn a Word file, EPUB, PDF, text file or web page into lines, with chapters and speakers worked out for you.
- [Export audio, subtitles and stems](https://leelo-ai.com/help/export-audio): Formats, quality and loudness for a finished file, plus subtitles, a transcript, and a file per voice.
- [Make an audiobook with chapters](https://leelo-ai.com/help/audiobooks): Chapters, opening and closing credits, a retail sample, ACX loudness and M4B export.
- [Time a voiceover to a video](https://leelo-ai.com/help/match-to-picture): Place lines at timecodes from subtitles, fit a script to a length, and drag lines on the timeline.
- [Design a voice from a description](https://leelo-ai.com/help/design-a-voice): Describe a voice that doesn't exist, hear three takes, and keep the one you like.
- [Clone your own voice](https://leelo-ai.com/help/clone-your-voice): Record or upload a minute or two of clear speech, confirm consent, and use the voice on any script.
- [Keeping voices of your own](https://leelo-ai.com/help/voice-slots): How many cloned or designed voices your plan includes, and what extra ones cost.
- [Dub a video into other languages](https://leelo-ai.com/help/dub-a-video): Upload a video or link, pick up to three languages, and get it back voiced in each, with subtitles.
- [Transcribe audio or video](https://leelo-ai.com/help/transcribe-audio): Turn a recording into text with speakers and timings, and export it as text or subtitles.
- [Remove background noise](https://leelo-ai.com/help/clean-up-audio): Lift a voice out of noise and echo, level it, and download it as MP3 or WAV.
- [Change the voice on a recording](https://leelo-ai.com/help/voice-changer): Keep your performance and timing, and hear it in one of your own voices.
- [Make sound effects](https://leelo-ai.com/help/sound-effects): Describe a sound, choose a length or let it decide, and get up to three versions.
- [Use the writing assistant](https://leelo-ai.com/help/writing-assistant): Write a script from a brief, and rewrite, shorten, fix, split or translate any line.
- [Files, storage and how long things are kept](https://leelo-ai.com/help/files-and-storage): Where exports, dubs, clean-ups and sounds live, how long line audio is kept on each plan, and storage limits.
- [Invite your team](https://leelo-ai.com/help/invite-your-team): Seats, invitations, roles and the activity log on Pro and Business: how to invite people and what owners, admins and members can do.
- [Sign-in, password and email settings](https://leelo-ai.com/help/account-settings): Reset your password, the ways to sign in, notifications, and turning off tips.
- [Delete your account](https://leelo-ai.com/help/delete-your-account): How to delete your Leelo account: what deleting removes, what's kept as the billing record, and what to download or cancel first.
- [Get started with the API](https://leelo-ai.com/help/api-keys): Make a Leelo API key on Pro or Business, send it with every request, and the limits that apply: how many keys, and requests per minute.
- [Receive webhooks](https://leelo-ai.com/help/webhooks): Get told when dubs, transcripts and exports finish, and verify that it was Leelo that sent it.
- [Use Leelo from Claude and other AI assistants](https://leelo-ai.com/help/mcp-server): Connect Leelo's MCP server so an assistant can make speech, dubs and transcripts for you.
- [Put a player on your website](https://leelo-ai.com/help/embed-player): Publish any file as a player, style it, and paste one line of HTML into your site.

## Voices by language

[English](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/english) (230), [Spanish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/spanish) (213), [Chinese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/chinese) (181), [French](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/french) (164), [German](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/german) (163), [Portuguese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/portuguese) (162), [Italian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/italian) (159), [Hindi](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/hindi) (158), [Korean](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/korean) (153), [Dutch](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/dutch) (151), [Russian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/russian) (148), [Thai](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/thai) (148), [Hungarian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/hungarian) (147), [Romanian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/romanian) (147), [Turkish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/turkish) (147), [Arabic](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/arabic) (132), [Tamil](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/tamil) (112), [Bangla](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/bangla) (108), [Japanese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/japanese) (106), [Kannada](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/kannada) (106), [Malayalam](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/malayalam) (106), [Telugu](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/telugu) (106), [Finnish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/finnish) (105), [Norwegian Bokmål](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/norwegian-bokmal) (105), [Polish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/polish) (105), [Swedish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/swedish) (105), [Czech](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/czech) (104), [Danish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/danish) (104), [Serbian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/serbian) (104), [Swahili](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/swahili) (104), [Urdu](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/urdu) (104), [Vietnamese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/vietnamese) (104), [Catalan](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/catalan) (103), [Afrikaans](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/afrikaans) (102), [Albanian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/albanian) (102), [Amharic](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/amharic) (102), [Armenian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/armenian) (102), [Azerbaijani](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/azerbaijani) (102), [Basque](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/basque) (102), [Bosnian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/bosnian) (102), [Bulgarian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/bulgarian) (102), [Burmese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/burmese) (102), [Croatian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/croatian) (102), [Estonian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/estonian) (102), [Galician](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/galician) (102), [Georgian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/georgian) (102), [Hebrew](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/hebrew) (102), [Icelandic](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/icelandic) (102), [Indonesian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/indonesian) (102), [Irish](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/irish) (102), [Javanese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/javanese) (102), [Kazakh](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/kazakh) (102), [Khmer](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/khmer) (102), [Lao](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/lao) (102), [Latvian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/latvian) (102), [Lithuanian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/lithuanian) (102), [Macedonian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/macedonian) (102), [Maltese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/maltese) (102), [Mongolian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/mongolian) (102), [Nepali](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/nepali) (102), [Pashto](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/pashto) (102), [Persian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/persian) (102), [Sinhala](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/sinhala) (102), [Slovak](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/slovak) (102), [Slovenian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/slovenian) (102), [Somali](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/somali) (102), [Sundanese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/sundanese) (102), [Ukrainian](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/ukrainian) (102), [Uzbek](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/uzbek) (102), [Welsh](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/welsh) (102), [Zulu](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/zulu) (102), [Greek](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/greek) (101), [Filipino](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/filipino) (100), [Malay](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/malay) (100), [Assamese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/assamese) (6), [Gujarati](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/gujarati) (6), [Marathi](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/marathi) (6), [Odia](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/odia) (6), [Punjabi](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/punjabi) (6), [Inuktitut](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/inuktitut) (4), [Cantonese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/cantonese) (3), [Wu Chinese](https://leelo-ai.com/voices/wu-chinese) (3)

## Blog

- [Arabic Text-to-Speech: Why It's Hard and How to Get It Right](https://leelo-ai.com/en/arabic-tts-complexities): Why Arabic text-to-speech misreads words: missing short vowels, case endings, dialects and numbers. Real examples and a step-by-step fix for natural audio.
- [Celebrity AI Voices: Is It Legal to Clone a Famous Voice?](https://leelo-ai.com/en/celebrity-tts-ethics): When is it legal to use a celebrity's voice in text-to-speech? Right of publicity, sound-alike cases, deepfake robocalls, consent and what to do instead.
- [Chinese Text-to-Speech: Tones, Polyphones and How to Fix Them](https://leelo-ai.com/en/chinese-tts-nuances): How Chinese text-to-speech handles tones, tone sandhi and characters with several readings, why voices misread them, and how to fix your Mandarin audio.
- [E-learning Voiceover with Text-to-Speech: A Practical Guide](https://leelo-ai.com/en/elearning-tts-revolution): How to produce e-learning voiceover with text-to-speech: when it beats a narrator, writing for the ear, timing, pronunciation, updates, cost and localization.
- [Emotional Text-to-Speech: Why It Matters and How to Direct It](https://leelo-ai.com/en/emotional-tts-future): What emotional text-to-speech is, how AI voices convey feeling through pitch, pace and pauses, where it helps or backfires, and how to direct it line by line.
- [Iconic Voices Like Yoda and Darth Vader: Can AI Recreate Them?](https://leelo-ai.com/en/iconic-tts-voices): What makes voices like Yoda and Darth Vader iconic, why you can't legally copy them, and how to design an original character voice with AI that sticks.
- [Brazilian vs European Portuguese Text-to-Speech: What Changes](https://leelo-ai.com/en/portuguese-tts-gap): How Brazilian and European Portuguese differ in sound, words and grammar, why one voice can't serve both, and how to produce text-to-speech for each market.
- [Swedish Text-to-Speech for Business: Uses, Costs and Pitfalls](https://leelo-ai.com/en/swedish-tts-business): Where Nordic businesses use Swedish text-to-speech, what it costs, and how to avoid the classic errors: pitch accent, compound words, numbers and abbreviations.
- [How to Turn Classic Literature into Audiobooks with AI Voices](https://leelo-ai.com/en/tts-classic-literature): Turn public-domain classics into audiobooks with text-to-speech: copyright checks, archaic words, names, dialogue, chapter files, audio specs and cost.
- [How to Choose an AI Voice Generator in 2026: What to Compare](https://leelo-ai.com/en/tts-comparison): Price per hour, licences, cloning, languages, dubbing and what happens if the tool closes: a checklist for picking an AI voice generator, with real numbers.
- [Text-to-Speech for Customer Service: IVR and Phone Prompts](https://leelo-ai.com/en/tts-customer-service): How to use text-to-speech in customer service: writing IVR menus, phone formats, numbers and names, multiple languages, disclosure rules, updates and cost.
- [Text-to-Speech for Dyslexia: How It Helps and How to Use It](https://leelo-ai.com/en/tts-for-dyslexia): How text-to-speech helps people with dyslexia: read-along listening, the right speed, proofreading by ear, making audio for lessons, and what it can't replace.
- [Turkish Text-to-Speech: İ and ı, Suffixes and Stress Explained](https://leelo-ai.com/en/turkish-tts-challenges): Why Turkish text-to-speech stumbles on dotted and dotless i, missing Turkish letters, suffixes on numbers and word stress, with real examples and how to fix it.

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