Is the AI text to speech tool market growing or shrinking?
Miles FosterOwner and tester, RankDude
The answer▼ Shrinking
- Visits, year on year
- -25%
- Visits, last six months
- -37%
- Name searches vs October 2025
- -23%
Every month I add up the Google visits to the 22 AI text to speech tool sites I track (DataForSEO estimates) and how often people in the US search for them by name (Google Ads). In October 2026 they got about 18 million visits.
The total hides very different stories: one site grew 151% in a year while another lost 82% of its visits. See who grew and who shrank, the visits month by month and the name searches, plus what I expect for November 2026.
AI text to speech tool market demand: key numbers, October 2026
Four numbers for October 2026. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 22 tracked sites. Tap one for the detail below.
- Visits from Google18Mvisits-25% vs a year ago
- Name searches, US941Ksearches-23% vs October 2025
- Top five sites83%of visitsfastest grower: Speechma
- Expected in November18Mvisitslikely 16M to 20M
- The AI text to speech tool market is shrinking as of October 2026.
- The 22 AI text to speech tool sites RankDude tracks got 17,743,702 visits from Google search in October 2026, 25% fewer visits than in October 2025.
- People in the US searched Google for these sites by name 941,420 times in September 2026, 23% fewer searches than in October 2025.
- The five most-visited AI text to speech tool sites get 83% of all visits.
- Fastest-growing AI text to speech tool site over the year: Speechma, +151% (130K to 326K visits a month).
- Steepest fall over the year: FineVoice, -82% (296K to 52.1K visits a month).
- Forecast for November 2026: about 18M visits, likely between 16M and 20M.
Source: DataForSEO visit estimates and Google Ads search data, published 2 November 2026 by RankDude.
1.Are more people visiting AI text to speech tool sites than a year ago?
Down 25% on a year ago; down 14% on September 2026
No. The 22 tracked AI text to speech tool sites got 17,743,702 visits from Google search in October 2026. That is 25% fewer visits than in October 2025, and 14% fewer visits than in September 2026.
The highest month of the last two years was January 2025, with 31,019,497 visits; October 2026 is 43% below it. In the US, visits were 1,382,975, down 25% on a year ago.
WorldVisits a month to AI text to speech tool sites, worldwide, two years
Source: DataForSEO, Google search visits, all tracked sites.
Worldwide, this month
18M
-24.5% on a year ago
United States, this month
1.4M
-25.2% on a year ago
Two-year high
31M
January 2025
US share of visits
7.8%
of worldwide visits
Miles explains
Visits are lower than a year ago and lower than in September 2026, so the fall is still going. Name searches (-23%) and Google Trends interest in the term (-38%) fell too, so people are less interested, not just finding these sites less often.
2.Are people searching for AI text to speech tool sites by name?
Down 23% on October 2025; 941K name searches a month in the US
Fewer than before. People in the US searched Google for the names of the counted AI text to speech tool sites 941,420 times in September 2026, 23% fewer searches than in October 2025. Someone who searches a site’s name already knows it, so this is the clearest sign of people coming back on purpose. The term “ai text to speech” itself gets about 12,100 US searches a month (Google Ads, 12-month average).
USName searches a month for AI text to speech tool sites, US
Source: Google Ads via DataForSEO, to September 2026.
USMost searched AI text to speech tool sites by name, searches a month
Miles explains
Name searches are down, so fewer people are coming back on purpose. Better Google rankings will not fix that.
3.Which AI text to speech tool sites grew, and which shrank?
The five most-visited sites hold 83% of all visits; the ten most-visited hold 95.7%
The five most-visited AI text to speech tool sites get 83% of all visits, so one of them winning or losing a big Google ranking moves the whole total. Fastest grower over the year: Speechma, from 129,790 to 326,042 visits (+151%). Steepest fall: FineVoice, from 296,133 to 52,053 visits (-82%).
Growing fastest, year on year
Speechma326K visits+151%
Listnr534K visits+48%
RecCloud167K visits+45%
Reception by ElevenLabs7.0M visits+44%
Text2Speech.org68.7K visits+28%
Source: DataForSEO. Sites with 5,000+ visits a year ago.