# AI voice and audio tools: 18 tools for office work > 18 AI voice and audio tools for office work, including ElevenLabs, Vapi and Retell AI: what each one does, whether it is free, and free lessons. Updated… Source: https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/voice-audio · Updated 2026-10-13 · Free from Stepthrough (https://learn.ynteractive.com) Updated October 13, 2026 · By [Robert Breen](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/about) A missed call is often a missed client. AI voice tools answer the phone after hours, book appointments and qualify leads, and they also narrate training videos, clean up recordings and turn speech into text as you talk. This category covers voice agents, text-to-speech, dictation and audio clean-up. 18 tools · 12 free or with a free plan · 6 with a free trial · 0 paid only ## New this week 18 tools added since October 8, 2026. New tools are added every day. OpenAI Whisper · Rev · Superwhisper · Wispr Flow · Auphonic · Riverside · Adobe Podcast · Udio · Suno · Speechify · Resemble AI · WellSaid · + 6 more ## 18 AI voice and audio tools Each card says what the tool does for a working professional and whether it is free, has a free plan or trial, or is paid. 2 have a free Stepthrough lesson where you practice it step by step. - [ElevenLabs](https://elevenlabs.io): Free plan. Realistic AI voices, voice cloning and voice agents that answer calls. Narrate videos or build an AI receptionist. [Free lesson: Your First Voice Agent in ElevenLabs: An After-Hours Receptionist](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/elevenlabs-voice-agent-tutorial-after-hours-receptionist) - [Vapi](https://vapi.ai): Free trial. A developer platform for AI voice agents that make and take phone calls. [Free lesson: ElevenLabs vs Vapi: Cost per Call and a Launch Checklist](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/elevenlabs-vs-vapi-cost-per-call-launch-checklist) - [Retell AI](https://www.retellai.com): Free trial. Build AI phone agents for scheduling, support and sales calls, with low-latency voices. - [Bland AI](https://www.bland.ai): Free trial. Enterprise AI phone agents that handle inbound and outbound calls at scale. - [Synthflow](https://synthflow.ai): Free trial. No-code AI voice agents for appointment booking, lead qualification and support. - [Murf AI](https://murf.ai): Free plan. Studio-quality AI voiceovers for training videos, presentations and ads. - [WellSaid](https://www.wellsaid.io): Free trial. Professional AI voiceover for e-learning and corporate video, with brand-safe voices. - [Resemble AI](https://www.resemble.ai): Free trial. Voice cloning and text-to-speech with deepfake detection for businesses. - [Speechify](https://speechify.com): Free plan. Reads documents, PDFs and web pages aloud in natural voices, so you can listen instead of read. - [Suno](https://suno.com): Free plan. Creates full songs with vocals from a text prompt. Handy for jingles and background music. - [Udio](https://www.udio.com): Free plan. An AI music generator for songs and instrumentals from text prompts. - [Adobe Podcast](https://podcast.adobe.com): Free plan. Enhance Speech makes recordings sound studio-quality, plus browser recording and editing. - [Riverside](https://riverside.com): Free plan. Record studio-quality podcasts and video interviews remotely, with AI editing and clips. - [Auphonic](https://auphonic.com): Free plan. Automatic audio leveling, noise reduction and loudness for podcasts and recordings. - [Wispr Flow](https://wisprflow.ai): Free plan. Voice dictation that types clean, formatted text in any app as you speak. - [Superwhisper](https://superwhisper.com): Free plan. Fast AI dictation and transcription for Mac, Windows and iPhone that works offline. - [Rev](https://www.rev.com): Free plan. AI and human transcription, captions and meeting notes with high accuracy. - [OpenAI Whisper](https://github.com/openai/whisper): Free. Open-source speech recognition you can run yourself to transcribe audio in many languages. ## Learn them free, step by step Practice in a safe copy of the real tool, with every step checked as you go. - **ElevenLabs**: [Your First Voice Agent in ElevenLabs: An After-Hours Receptionist](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/elevenlabs-voice-agent-tutorial-after-hours-receptionist) (9 min) - **Vapi**: [ElevenLabs vs Vapi: Cost per Call and a Launch Checklist](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/elevenlabs-vs-vapi-cost-per-call-launch-checklist) (8 min) ## More AI tool categories [LLMs & chat assistants (18)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/llms-chat-assistants) · [AI agents & agent builders (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/ai-agents) · [Automation & workflows (15)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/automation-workflows) · [Email & inbox (16)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/email-inbox) · [Writing & content (16)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/writing-content) · [Meetings & notes (18)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/meetings-notes) · [Sales & CRM (18)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/sales-crm) · [Marketing & social (19)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/marketing-social) · [Customer support & chatbots (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/customer-support-chatbots) · [Image generation (18)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/image-generation) · [Video & avatars (21)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/video-avatars) · [Presentations & docs (15)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/presentations-docs) · [Research & search (16)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/research-search) · [Data & spreadsheets (16)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/data-spreadsheets) · [Coding & developer (21)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/coding-developer) · [Design & UI (15)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/design-ui) · [Productivity & tasks (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/productivity-tasks) · [HR & recruiting (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/hr-recruiting) · [Finance & accounting (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/finance-accounting) · [Legal & contracts (16)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/legal-contracts) · [Website & no-code builders (17)](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools/website-no-code) [The full AI tools directory](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/ai-tools) · [Tool comparisons](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/compare) · [AI glossary](https://learn.ynteractive.com/content/glossary)