Play.ht is a text-to-speech platform that generates spoken audio from written content using neural voices. It sits in the competitive TTS space alongside Google Cloud, Amazon Polly, and ElevenLabs, but emphasizes conversational voice quality and ease of integration. The service offers a free tier with limited monthly characters, then paid plans starting around $10–20/month for modest usage. The main tradeoff: while the voices sound notably more natural than older TTS engines, pricing scales quickly for high-volume applications, and custom voice cloning remains a premium feature not available on entry-level tiers.