Free AI Voice Generators in 2026

Short answer: ElevenLabs gives the most to try - 10,000 credits a month, about 10 minutes of speech - and Hume AI is the only free plan in the catalog that lists voice cloning at no charge. But free minutes are for testing: ElevenLabs and Cartesia say commercial use and instant voice cloning start on their first paid plan ($6 and $5 a month), so a voiceover you publish on a monetized channel needs one. Hume and Amazon Polly do not state an output rule on their pricing pages.

Four verified offers in the catalog turn text into a voice for free. All four refill every month except the credit Hume gives on top. Every number below was read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-10; Hume's pricing page no longer shows plan details, so its row is the catalog entry verified on 2026-11-06. Looking for the developer side (API keys, concurrency)? See the free text-to-speech API guide.

Compare the free AI voice generators #

The minutes column is our arithmetic from each vendor's credit or character count; Cartesia's 27 minutes is the catalog figure. Not in the catalog: Fish Audio gives 8,000 credits a month (up to 7 minutes, 500 characters per generation, 3 public voice slots) with no card, but its free tier has no enhanced voice cloning and no commercial use; both start on Plus ($11 a month billed annually).

Short answer for the best-known one: is ElevenLabs free.

Which one to pick #

• Most to try, in a browser: ElevenLabs. One 10,000-credit pool covers speech, sound effects, music and voice design.
• Cloning your own voice for free: Hume AI lists voice cloning as unlimited on its free plan, but its pricing page no longer confirms it, so check the app before you plan around it. Elsewhere cloning is paid: ElevenLabs Starter, Cartesia Pro, Fish Audio Plus.
• The longest free narration: Cartesia's roughly 27 minutes a month, or Amazon Polly's 5 million Standard-voice characters (several hours of speech, through the API and console rather than a studio).
• Publishing the audio: pay for one month of ElevenLabs Starter or Cartesia Pro, render everything, and cancel. That is cheaper than any other route to a commercial license.
• Music, video or subtitles around the voice: see the free AI music generator guide, the free AI video generator guide and the free AI subtitle generator guide.

Steps #

1. Write the script first and count the characters: 10,000 characters is about 10 minutes at ElevenLabs and Hume, so a 3-minute video script fits a month's free pool several times.
2. Pick the voice on a short paragraph before you render the whole script; every retry spends credits.
3. Generate in small chunks (a paragraph at a time) so one bad take does not cost the full budget.
4. Download the file and check the audio bitrate: ElevenLabs free output is capped at 128 kbps.
5. Before you publish, read the commercial-use column. If the plan you used has no license, render again on a paid month or use the audio only for drafts.

Limits and the catch #

• ElevenLabs: no commercial license and no voice cloning on Free.
• Hume AI: about 10 minutes a month, 15 requests a minute.
• Cartesia: the 20,000 credits are shared with speech-to-text, so transcribing eats your voice minutes; 2 concurrent requests.
• Amazon Polly: Neural, Long-Form and Generative allowances last 12 months from sign-up. New AWS accounts since 15 July 2025 get up to $200 in Free Tier credits on a free plan that lasts 6 months.
• Cloned voices: clone only voices you have the right to use. The vendors' terms require consent from the speaker.
• Free tiers change. Offers are re-checked monthly; the verified date on each offer page is the day we last confirmed it. The free AI audio tools hub lists every voice and audio offer we track, and the free AI video tools hub the video ones.