Play.ht
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Play.ht
- C · CEO & Politics
- Mark Zuckerberg — Centrist / shifted right 2024–26; accommodative of Trump admin; July 2026 WSJ op-ed on distributed superintelligence
- D · Date
- 2023
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- [UNKNOWN]
- K · Key Staffers
- Hammad Syed (Co-founder), Mahmoud Felfel (Co-founder)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- Speech Synthesis
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Retired (service shut down after Meta's July 2025 acquisition)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- [UNKNOWN]
- R · What Makes It Special
- AI voice generator with 900+ voices. Meta acquired PlayAI in July 2025, and the Play.ht service has since shut down.
- S · Stock / Status
- Acquired by Meta (Jul 2025); $752 (META, Sep 25, 2026)
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- [UNKNOWN]
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary Speech Synthesis from Play.ht, released 2023.
Data completeness 81% · Last verified 2026-05-12
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“Play.ht.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-05-12. https://theaidatabase.com/m/playht.html