How We Pick the Best Tools
The word "best" gets thrown around a lot in AI tool lists. We try to be specific about what it means here. These are not sponsored lists or affiliate-driven rankings - they are curated selections based on a combination of real user ratings, engagement data from our directory, and editorial judgement.
When we put together a best-of list for a category, we start by looking at all the tools in that category in our directory. We then filter by approval status, average rating, and the number of users who have engaged with each listing. Our editors review the shortlist and make final calls based on factors like quality of documentation, pricing transparency, and genuine usefulness for the stated use case.
Sponsored tools may appear at the top of some lists and are clearly labelled. Sponsorship does not affect which tools appear in the organic rankings below the sponsored slots.
Ranked by verified user ratings from our directory.
All tools reviewed by a human editor before listing.
Lists refreshed as new tools gain traction.
Free and paid tools included in every category.
Top AI Tools for Audio (105 tools)
All Best ToolsElevenLabs
freemiumElevenLabs is the leading AI voice synthesis platform producing the most human-like text-to-speech voices available. Its...
Best for: Content creators, publishers, and developers wanting the most natural-sounding AI voices and voice cloning for audio content and dubbing
Notebook LM Plus
freemiumNotebookLM Plus is Google's premium research AI. Upload PDFs, docs, and websites, then chat with all sources simultaneou...
Best for: Students, researchers, and analysts synthesising multiple documents
AssemblyAI
freemiumAssemblyAI is a speech recognition API platform that offers developers accurate transcription alongside a rich set of AI...
Best for: Developers building audio-powered applications who need accurate transcription plus rich AI audio intelligence in a single API.
NotebookLM
freeGoogle NotebookLM is a free AI research assistant that grounds itself entirely in your uploaded documents. Upload PDFs,...
Best for: Researchers and students who need AI to analyse and chat with their own documents
Adobe Podcast
freemiumAdobe Podcast (Improve Speech) is an AI audio improvement tool that dramatically improves the quality of recorded speech...
Best for: Podcasters, educators, and remote workers wanting to instantly improve the quality of recorded speech without a studio or expensive equipment
Gemini (Google DeepMind)
freemiumGemini is Google DeepMind's flagship multimodal AI model family, replacing PaLM 2. Available in Ultra, Pro, Flash, and N...
Best for: Google Workspace users, developers on Google Cloud, and teams needing very long context analysis of documents, codebases, or video
Google Gemini
freemiumGoogle Gemini is a multimodal AI assistant built natively to reason across text, images, code, audio, and video, deeply...
Best for: Google Workspace users and businesses who want a tightly integrated AI assistant across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and the broader Google platform.
Krisp
freemiumKrisp is an AI noise cancellation application that works at the system level to remove background noise, echo, and unwan...
Best for: Remote workers and professionals who take calls from noisy environments and need real-time background noise removal.
Riverside.fm
freemiumRiverside.fm records studio-quality audio and video locally on each participant's device during remote recordings, ensur...
Best for: Podcasters and creators recording studio-quality remote interviews
Replicate Platform
freemiumReplicate provides a simple API for running thousands of AI models including image generation, video, audio and language...
Best for: Developers integrating AI model inference into their applications