TTSMaker turns pasted text into downloadable MP3 or WAV narration across 100+ languages, with a permanent free tier, SRT subtitle export and commercial rights granted by its published licence.
TTSMaker is a browser-based free text to speech service that turns pasted text into an audio file you can play or download. It runs on two surfaces: the open converter at ttsmaker.com and TTSMaker Pro at pro.ttsmaker.com, which adds paid character quotas, a multi-speaker dialogue editor and API access.
It is a converter, not a studio: text in, MP3 or WAV out, with no editing timeline and no voice cloning entry point in any page checked for this review. The vendor's own summary calls it a free text-to-speech tool that provides speech synthesis services and supports multiple languages, and the site FAQ describes the same thing as an AI voice generator.
Two things separate it from most free tiers here. The free plan is not a trial: TTSMaker will offer a permanent free version for users, reserving the right to make adjustments to relevant policies in the future. And commercial rights ship with free output rather than with an upgrade — the licence grants a non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide, and perpetual license to use audio files generated via its services.
The cost sits on the other side: files are deleted within minutes, and the free tier carries captchas and ads.
The catalogue is advertised at over 600 AI voices across 100+ languages. The detail most listings omit: the ceiling on a single conversion is set per voice, not per account. The voice list shows entries marked Limit Per Conversion: 20000 characters next to others marked Limit Per Conversion: 300 characters, so picking a voice also picks how much text fits in one pass.
A second tier is the group flagged as unlimited: every plan including the free one lists 20+ unlimited voices, whose output does not draw down the weekly character allowance. That pool is a policy, not a guarantee: the vendor reserves the right to adjust the number of voices, availability (adding or removing voices), synthesis speed.
Audio exports as MP3, OGG, AAC, OPUS or WAV, and MP3 has standard and high-quality settings; pick high quality and the size of the converted audio file will usually be twice as large. Two extras are unusual at this price: the converter generates a timed subtitle file for the audio just produced, and background music can sit underneath, where the free version can upload up to 3 BGMs, which expire after 6 hours, against 20 uploads on paid plans. A listen-only mode previews a voice while only converting the first 50 characters.
A separate dialogue editor builds conversations from blocks, each with its own language and voice, then converts the text in each block into speech and merges all blocks into a single audio file. The free ceiling is tight: up to 5 dialogue blocks, 200 characters per block, generate up to 5 dialogues per week. Paid accounts open this to 300 dialogue projects, each supporting up to 100 dialogue blocks, and the free version does not include a save feature for them.
Inline pause markers beat editing silence afterwards; they take a duration in milliseconds, and the API exposes the same mechanism with a range of 0-10000 ms, default 0.
The v2 API has two main calls: one returns the voice list with IDs and per-voice ceilings, the other creates a conversion order and returns a URL to a temporary file deleted after 2 hours rather than the audio itself, so build the download into the same job.
The vendor's scenario list centres on three jobs, each meeting a concrete product constraint:
Developers add a fourth pattern: third-party Python wrappers on a public code-hosting platform, one describing itself as a Python library that allows you to interact with the TTSMaker API to convert text to speech.
A good fit if you are:
A poor fit if you are:
One inconsistency matters: the same documentation page says the temporary URL will be valid for 24 hours and, further down, that the file is deleted after two hours. Plan against the shorter figure.
Billing counts characters, not minutes, because audio duration depends on language, voice, and speed settings. The spread that decides which plan you need: 300,000 characters may produce about 6.9 hours of English audio, 4.3 hours in Spanish, or over 14 hours in Chinese due to language differences. The plan sheet was captured in its annual-billing state; the monthly-billing tab did not render in this pass, so only the annual figures below are confirmed.
| Plan | Annual billing | Character allowance | Max per conversion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 20,000 per week | 500 |
| Lite | $119.88 per year, save $36 | 300,000 per month | 10,000 |
| Pro Mini | $227.88 per year, save $60 | 600,000 per month | 20,000 |
| Pro Max | $299.88 per year, save $96 | 1,200,000 per month | 20,000 |
| Studio | $1296 per year, save $384 | 6,000,000 per month | 30,000 |
Tiers also differ on ads and captchas, pause-insertion limits, hosting and background-music slots, invoicing, and email response targets that tighten from 72h on Lite to 24h on Studio. API access starts at Pro Mini, and add-on character packs are sold separately to subscribers.
The most useful comparison comes from outside the vendor. An independent editorial roundup of AI voice generators named TTSMaker its free pick, citing commercial use allowed even for free voices and more than 600 voices across 100 languages, with 20 available for free without limits — while judging that the interface feels basic compared to ElevenLabs or Speechify. It wins on rights and price, loses on polish.
Three situations argue for a different tool: when the voice is the deliverable and judged as performance; when voice cloning is required, which no page checked here offers; and when a pipeline needs durable hosted assets rather than an expiring link.
One warning: third-party AI tool directories carry stale numbers here, with one listing still showing over 200 AI voices, contradicted by the current official plan sheet.
The most important operational constraint, and three official pages give three different numbers:
The plan rows fit a plan-dependent difference — 30 minutes of history free, 24h paid — but the licence and privacy texts are not scoped that way, so it stays unresolved. Either way, download the audio and the subtitle file the moment a conversion finishes.
Minutes, not days. The figures disagree — 30 minutes in the licence, 60 minutes in the Pro privacy policy, 24 hours in the terms — and all are short enough that downloading immediately is the only safe habit. An independent review made the same point, warning that TTSMaker only stores your files for 30 minutes before deleting them.
No. API access requires a Pro or Studio subscription, one key per account, one request per second. Free and Lite accounts have no API support.
Cancellation is available at any time, with access to the end of the billing cycle. Refunds are narrower: within 30 days if no characters were used, within 7 days of deducting the fee if fewer than 500 were used, no partial refunds, and one refund per account before purchasing is blocked.
