Sound-related tools fall into a handful of categories. This guide explains the differences and what to check in each.
Speech to text
Transcription
Transcription tools turn recorded or live speech into text. Things that matter: accuracy with accents and background noise, support for your language, speaker labels, and how the tool treats your recordings.
Meeting Assistants
Meeting Assistants join or record calls, then produce notes, summaries and action items. They involve recording other people, so tell participants and check local rules on consent.
Podcast Tools
Podcast Tools cover creating, editing and distributing podcasts.
Text to speech and voices
Text to Speech
Text to Speech turns writing into natural-sounding spoken audio. Listen to samples in your language, and check whether the license allows commercial use such as audiobooks or videos.
Voice Cloning
Voice Cloning synthesizes speech in the voice of a particular person. Use it only with clear permission from the speaker. Cloning someone's voice without consent can break the law and cause real harm.
Voice Assistants
Voice Assistants are AI agents you can talk to, including those that handle phone calls and conversations for a business. Find out how they disclose that the caller is an AI, as this is required in some places.
AI Dubbing
AI Dubbing translates spoken audio and video into other languages, sometimes keeping the original speaker's voice.
Music and sound editing
Music Generation
Music Generation composes songs, beats and soundtracks from a description. Read the terms on ownership and royalty-free use before publishing the result.
Audio Editing
Audio Editing cleans, masters and edits audio: removing noise, evening out volume, isolating voices.
Choosing
| You want to | Look in |
|---|---|
| Get text from a recording | Transcription |
| Capture what was said in meetings | Meeting Assistants |
| Read text aloud in a natural voice | Text to Speech |
| Make a video understandable in another language | AI Dubbing, Video Subtitling |
| Create music without a composer | Music Generation |
| Clean up a noisy recording | Audio Editing |
Privacy tip
Audio often contains private information: names, health details, business plans. Before uploading a recording, read how the tool stores it, how long it keeps it, and whether it uses recordings to train models. More in Using AI tools safely.
