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WellSaid Labs

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Text-to-speech built on licensed voice-actor recordings, aimed at corporate audio

text to speechvoiceoverelearning narrationlicensed voicesteam collaborationFreemium · from $10/mo

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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$10/mo
Billing
Monthly

The free trial gives 3 download minutes a month with no commercial rights. Starter is $10/month billed annually ($120/year, 240 minutes) or $19 month-to-month for 20 minutes; Pro is $33/month annual ($396/year) or $49 monthly for 180 minutes; Business is $160 per user per month billed annually for up to five seats. Generation is unlimited on paid plans — only downloaded minutes count. Enterprise is quoted and alone unlocks all languages, translation, SSO and 96 kHz output.

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Overview

About WellSaid Labs

WellSaid Labs turns scripts into voiceover using a catalogue of several hundred voices, each built with a professional actor under licence rather than cloned from found audio. The Studio editor tunes pronunciation, pacing and delivery line by line, shares projects across a team and exports caption files; an API and Adobe integrations cover production pipelines. It is pitched at e-learning, corporate training, product marketing and internal comms rather than at hobbyists. Paid tiers grant commercial rights that the free trial withholds, and everything runs in the browser.

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Web · API
API
Yes
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026

Verified sources

  • Pricing page: Trial 3 download minutes a month without commercial rights; Starter $10/mo billed annually ($120/yr) or $19 monthly; Pro $33/mo annual or $49 monthly; Business $160/mo/user billed annually; Enterprise custom (15 October 2026)wellsaid.io ↗
  • About page: founded in 2019; every voice built with professional actors and licensed for commercial use (15 October 2026)wellsaid.io ↗
Fact check

Is WellSaid Labs legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

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Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 14, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
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Oct 15, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2019The vendor's own material, read by us
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WellSaid Labs, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of WellSaid Labs

high confidence

The reason to pick WellSaid over cheaper rivals is provenance: every voice is licensed from a named actor, which is the answer legal will want before a training video ships. The catch is that minutes are metered tightly and the useful ceiling — all languages, translation, SSO — sits behind a quoted enterprise contract.

Pros

  • Voices built in partnership with professional actors and licensed for commercial use
  • Per-line control over pronunciation, pacing and delivery in the Studio editor
  • Public API plus Adobe Express and Premiere Pro integrations
  • Shared workspaces and version management for team review

Cons

  • Free tier is 3 minutes a month and grants no commercial rights
  • Non-English languages, translation and SSO are enterprise-only
  • Allowances are counted in downloaded minutes, so exporting several revised takes eats into quota

Best for

  • Corporate training and e-learning teams that need cleared commercial rights
  • Marketing teams re-cutting narration often and wanting version history
  • Buyers who must be able to say where a synthetic voice came from

Not for

  • Cloning your own or someone else's voice, which the platform deliberately does not do
  • High-volume narration on a small budget, given the per-minute allowances

Watch out: The Starter and Pro headline prices are annual-billing rates; paying month to month costs roughly 50% more for the same minute allowance.

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