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PlayAI

Application

Play.ht (PlayAI) lets customers generate multi-speaker, natural-sounding AI voices and text-to-speech audio across 40+ languages via app and API.

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Founded2021

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

StatusPrivate

Product

Selected offerings — the AI products recorded here, not the vendor's full catalogue.

• Play.ht API service

  Lets customers generate multi-speaker, natural-sounding AI voices and text-to-speech audio across 40+ languages via app and API.

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WLWellSaid LabsPrivatePlay.ht and WellSaid Labs voice platform do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareCCartesiaPrivatePlay.ht and Sonic / Ink do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareRRespeecherPrivate · $4M raisedPlay.ht and AI Voice Lab do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareEElevenLabsPrivate · $11BPlay.ht and ElevenLabs Text to Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareIIBMPublic · $216.6BPlay.ht and IBM Watson Text to Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareHAHume AIPrivatePlay.ht and Octave TTS do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareAAmazonPublic · $2.8TPlay.ht and Amazon Polly do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSpeechmaticsPrivatePlay.ht and Text to Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareRAResemble AIPrivatePlay.ht and Resemble Text-to-Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareFRFurhat RoboticsPrivatePlay.ht and Furhat robot do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either; ships platform and robot rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareHHeyGenPrivate · $500MPlay.ht and HeyGen Video Translator do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareDDeepgramPrivate · $1.3BPlay.ht and Deepgram Flux TTS do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareOOraclePublic · $454.4BPlay.ht and OCI Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareYYandexPublicPlay.ht and Yandex SpeechKit do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareNCNAVER CloudPrivatePlay.ht and CLOVA Voice do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareTTwilioPublic · $36.5BPlay.ht and Conversation Relay do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareCCerencePublic · $384.9MPlay.ht and Cerence Voice Lab do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareTTencentPublic · $510.1BPlay.ht and Tencent Cloud TTS do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMicrosoftPublic · $3.7TPlay.ht and Azure AI Immersive Reader do comparable work on text to speech; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareKKakaoPublic · $16BPlay.ht and Kanana do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships agent platform and application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareAAlphabet (Google)Public · $4.2TPlay.ht and Cloud Text-to-Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSynthesiaPrivate · $4BPlay.ht and Synthesia do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareZZoomPublic · $28.7BPlay.ht and Zoom Virtual Agent do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareMMiniMaxPublic · $12.6BPlay.ht and MiniMax Audio do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships AI agent, application and 1 more rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareDDeepLPrivate · $2BPlay.ht and DeepL Voice for Conversations do comparable work on text to speech; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships application and model API rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareSASarvam AIPrivate · $275M raisedPlay.ht and Sarvam Text to Speech do comparable work on text to speech; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareXxAIAcquired ($230B deal)Play.ht and Grok Voice do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; xAI is acquired, with no independent scale.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSSunoPrivate · $5.4BPlay.ht and Suno both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.Different layerCompareMAMistral AIPrivate · $13.8BPlay.ht and Mistral Speech do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareSStepFunPrivate · $10BPlay.ht and StepFun Open Platform do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded.1 of 1 capabilityShared product typeCompareRRunPodPrivatePlay.ht and Public Endpoints do comparable work on text to speech; both also serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; scale not recorded for either; ships developer tool, infrastructure service and 2 more rather than the same layer.1 of 1 capabilityDifferent layerCompareSSpeakPrivate · $162M raisedPlay.ht and Speak both serve buyers who need to create synthetic voice and audio; PlayAI's scale not recorded; ships application rather than the same layer.Different layerCompare

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Sources

Founded

Company disclosure · 19 Sep 2026

Public listing

Regulatory filing · 22 Sep 2026

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Description

Company disclosure · 19 Sep 2026

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