What is Speechify?
Speechify is a voice AI assistant centered on text-to-speech, dictation, and document interaction. It can read books, web pages, PDFs, emails, and other documents aloud using adjustable voices and playback speeds. Users can follow synchronized text highlighting, scan printed pages with a camera, request summaries, and ask questions about the material they are reading or listening to.
The service is available through web and desktop apps, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and browser extensions for Chrome and Edge. Speechify also includes tools for voice typing, AI-generated podcasts, meeting notes, quizzes, recaps, and voice-based document creation.
Key Features
- Text-to-speech reader: Converts documents, websites, books, and other written material into spoken audio with selectable voices and playback speeds.
- Document assistance: Summarizes content, answers questions based on pages or files, creates quizzes, and provides recaps when users return to reading material.
- Voice typing: Lets users dictate text in supported apps, including workflows involving email and online documents.
- Scan and listen: Reads printed text aloud after the user photographs a page with a supported mobile device.
- AI podcast creation: Produces podcast-style audio from a document, link, idea, or short description, with controls for style and depth.
- Meeting and workspace tools: Takes notes from meetings and conversations, generates key-point summaries, and supports questions across documents and calls.
Use Cases
- Listen to PDFs, articles, books, emails, and study materials while commuting or completing other tasks.
- Review academic content through spoken playback, summaries, quizzes, podcasts, and voice notes.
- Dictate documents and responses instead of entering everything with a keyboard.
- Create podcast-style versions of articles, links, documents, or original ideas.
- Make reading more accessible by adjusting the voice and speed and following highlighted text.
Pricing
Speechify has a free plan with text-to-speech features, playback up to 1.5x, and 10 robotic voices. Premium costs $29 per month when billed monthly, or $139 when billed yearly. It includes more than 1,000 natural voices, over 60 languages, playback up to 5x, scanning, summaries and chat, cloud storage integrations, voice typing, AI podcasts, and the Voice AI Assistant. Speechify Studio and API pricing are presented separately.
Who Is It For?
Speechify is designed for students, professionals, creators, and people who prefer listening to written content. Its reading controls and scan-to-speech tools may also help users with dyslexia, ADHD, visual strain, reading difficulties, or other accessibility needs.
