NarrateHQ

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A PlayHT alternative for long-form narration

Meta acquired PlayAI, the company behind PlayHT, in July 2025, and the play.ht website no longer loads. If you used PlayHT for narration, NarrateHQ covers the same core job: paste a long script, generate it in one consistent voice, and export audio with timed subtitles.

Checked 1 Oct 2026 against TechCrunch: Meta acquires voice startup Play AI (July 2025).

Moving your narration to NarrateHQ

  1. Pick a voice. Preview voices by language, style, and quality lane in the voice library, across 197 languages.
  2. Paste the full script. NarrateHQ splits it into sections by the rules of its writing system and generates every section in the same voice and settings.
  3. Fix what changed. Regenerate one section when a line changes; the rest of the take is reused.
  4. Export. Download the audio with a timed SRT built from the final take.

NarrateHQ plans

  • Free: $0/mo, 30,000 credits (~14 min at the Natural lane)
  • Starter: $6/mo, 180,000 credits (~86 min at the Natural lane)
  • Creator: $18/mo, 650,000 credits (~312 min at the Natural lane)
  • Pro: $39/mo, 1,500,000 credits (~721 min at the Natural lane)
  • Studio: $89/mo, 3,600,000 credits (~1,730 min at the Natural lane)

Minutes are estimated at the Natural lane (2 credits per character). Paid plans include commercial use. See pricing for every lane and feature.

What NarrateHQ is built for

NarrateHQ is a narration studio for scripts that run long: YouTube episodes, courses, audiobooks, and documentaries. It keeps one voice and one set of settings across every section of the script, lets you replace a single generated section when the script changes instead of paying to regenerate the whole read, and builds a timed SRT file from the same assembled audio you download. It does not offer an API, voice agents, or music and sound-effect generation.

Questions

Meta acquired PlayAI, the company behind PlayHT, in July 2025. When we checked, the play.ht website no longer loaded.

Not directly; there is no import. Choose a voice from the NarrateHQ library, or, on Creator and above, create a Clone Voice from a recording you have the rights and consent to use.

Yes. The Free plan includes 30,000 credits a month with MP3 and SRT export, for evaluation and non-commercial use.

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