ElevenLabs
A next-gen AI voice platform with real-time speech synthesis across 70+ languages, emotion control and multi-speaker dialogue generation.
PlayAI
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About
Veteran AI voice synthesis and conversational voice platform with ultra-low-latency real-time voice APIs; Meta acquired its team in July 2025 and the platform shut down on 2025-12-31, and the site is no longer reachable (re-checked 2026-10-12).
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Verification and sources
- Verification state
- Discontinued
- Fields checked (see sources)
- Facts last changed
- Version / scope
- Not recorded
- Runs on
- Not recorded
- Price checked
- No verified price on record
- Limits and caveats
- The platform is permanently closed: play.ht failed on three independent channels across this and the previous round (TLS connection failure, not a bot wall); an archived snapshot of the vendor's own homepage from 2026-03-10 carries the banner “We have shut down the service.”, and a third-party migration guide dated 2026-07-07 records the full shutdown on 2025-12-31, when accounts and voice clones were deleted. Alternatives are listed as similar tools below.
- Sources
- play.ht — “We have shut down the service.” (archived snapshot of the vendor’s own homepage, 2026-03-10) — read Oct 14, 2026, Supports: status
- Inworld — “Migrate from PlayHT to Inworld Realtime TTS After Shutdown” (published 2026-07-07) — read Oct 14, 2026, Supports: status
“Suits” and “Limits and caveats” are the desk’s assessment of the sources listed here, not a hands-on test.
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