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The best voice, speech & video for AI agents

Text-to-speech, transcription, voice agents, and AI video/avatar APIs. Ranked by community traction, with live GitHub stars and what each is best at.

Short answer: the best voice, speech & video for AI agents by community traction is AssemblyAI (★ 0), followed by Cartesia and D-ID.

1. AssemblyAI

★ 0 ·

Speech-to-text and audio-intelligence API — transcription, diarization, summarization, and LLM-over-audio (LeMUR). Best for agent builders.

2. Cartesia

★ 0 ·

Sonic — ultra-low-latency (~90ms), emotive real-time text-to-speech and voice cloning for live voice agents. Best for agent builders.

3. D-ID

★ 0 ·

Talking-avatar video API — turn a photo + text/audio into a lip-synced presenter, with real-time WebRTC streaming agents. Best for agent builders.

4. Deepgram

★ 0 ·

Fast, accurate speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice-agent APIs built for real-time and batch at scale. Best for agent builders.

5. ElevenLabs

★ 0 ·

Ultra-realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, and voice-agent APIs for developers and creators. Best for agent builders.

6. Fish Audio

★ 0 ·

OpenAudio (S1/S2) text-to-speech and voice cloning — open models plus a hosted pay-as-you-go API. Best for agent builders.

7. Gladia

★ 0 ·

Audio-infrastructure API for voice products — async and real-time speech-to-text with diarization and translation. Best for agent builders.

8. HeyGen

★ 0 ·

Programmatic AI avatar video generation and video translation/dubbing with lip-sync, via a REST API. Best for agent builders.

9. Hume AI

★ 0 ·

Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) and Octave TTS — emotionally intelligent, context-aware expressive speech. Best for agent builders.

10. LMNT

★ 0 ·

Low-latency (150–200ms) multilingual text-to-speech with studio-quality voices and instant cloning. Best for agent builders.

11. PlayAI (PlayHT)

★ 0 ·

Generative text-to-speech API with 900+ voices, instant voice cloning, and low-latency streaming for conversational AI. Best for agent builders.

12. Resemble AI

★ 0 ·

Voice cloning and generative speech API, plus deepfake detection and audio watermarking, billed per second. Best for agent builders.

13. Retell AI

★ 0 ·

Voice-agent API for AI phone calls — build, test, and deploy production call agents with usage-based per-minute pricing. Best for agent builders.

14. Rime

★ 0 ·

Enterprise TTS with 200+ realistic voices, sub-200ms latency, and linguistically-aware markup for voice agents. Best for agent builders.

15. Speechmatics

★ 0 ·

High-accuracy speech-to-text across 55+ languages, plus real-time transcription and the Flow voice-agent API. Best for agent builders.

16. Sync (sync. labs)

★ 0 ·

Studio-grade AI lip-sync and visual dubbing API — retime any video's mouth to new audio in any language. Best for agent builders.

17. Synthesia

★ 0 ·

Studio-grade AI avatar video generation API — script-to-video with 200+ avatars, translation, and templates. Best for agent builders.

18. Tavus

★ 0 ·

Conversational Video Interface (CVI) and Phoenix replica API — real-time, face-to-face AI video agents ('digital twins'). Best for agent builders.

19. Vapi

★ 0 ·

Developer-first platform to build, test, and deploy real-time voice AI agents with pluggable STT/LLM/TTS and telephony. Best for agent builders.

Best voice, speech & video — FAQ

What is the best voice, speech & video for AI agents?

By community traction, AssemblyAI (★ 0) leads the voice, speech & video in our directory. Speech-to-text and audio-intelligence API — transcription, diarization, summarization, and LLM-over-audio (LeMUR).

What is the best open-source voice, speech & video?

AssemblyAI is the most-starred open-source option; Cartesia and D-ID are strong runners-up.

Which voice, speech & video has the most GitHub stars?

AssemblyAI, at ★ 0 (live count).

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