Speechify
Text-to-speech reader for articles, books, and PDFs.
Text-to-speech reader for articles, books, and PDFs.
Speechify is text-to-speech reader for articles, books, and PDFs. Freemium, with paid plans from $11.58/mo.
About Speechify
Speechify is a text-to-speech app that reads documents, web pages, emails and PDFs aloud in natural-sounding AI voices, originally built to help users with dyslexia. The product is available as a Chrome extension, iOS and Android apps, macOS and Windows desktop apps and a web app, all syncing the same library. Premium features include voice cloning, including officially licensed celebrity voices, more than 200 voices across 50+ languages, the ability to scan physical documents using the phone camera, and an AI Voice Studio for creating voiceovers. Speechify Studio is a separate product for video voiceovers and dubbing, and the company also offers an API. It is used by students, professionals with long reading queues, accessibility users and content creators producing narration, with free and Premium subscription tiers.
Speechify pros and cons
Hand-derived from the catalog data, strengths and trade-offs to weigh before signing up.
- Free tier available; paid plans from $11.58/mo
- Browser extension
- Mobile apps
- Celebrity voices
- No autonomous agent, handles single prompts, not multi-step workflows
- Competition is strong in this space, see PlayHT and Vocemo for comparison
2 plans from Speechify
Pulled from Speechify’s public pricing page. Prices may change, verify on the vendor’s site before purchasing.
Free
Listen with basic voices
- Listen at up to 1.5x speed
- 10 robotic voices
- Listen anywhere
- Text to speech basics
Premium
Most popular plan
- 1000+ natural voices
- 60+ languages
- Up to 5x speed
- AI summaries & chats
Speechify vs Voice & Speech
Side-by-side with the top 3 other voice & speech in this category.
| Picked from the top tools in voice & speech | Text-to-speech reader for articles, books, and PDFs. | AI voice generator and ultra-low-latency voice agents. | On-device AI for macOS: dictation, transcription with speaker labels, read-aloud, translation, and on-screen Q&A, processed locally. | Studio-grade AI voiceovers for video and e-learning. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARTS AT | $11.58/mo | $39/mo | Free | $19/mo |
| PRICING | Freemium | Freemium | Free | Freemium |
| AI AGENT | No | No | No | No |
| EDITOR'S PICK | No | No | No | No |
| KEY FEATURES | Browser extension, Mobile apps, Celebrity voices | Play 3.0 model, Instant voice cloning, Low-latency API | Runs fully on-device, nothing is uploaded, System-wide dictation into any app, Recording transcription with speaker labels and captions | 120+ voices, Voice cloning, Pitch and pace |
| BEST FOR | Reading articles, PDFs, Audiobooks | Voice agents, Audiobooks, Voiceovers | Dictating text into any Mac app hands-free, Transcribing meetings and interviews with speaker names, Listening to documents and articles read aloud | E-learning, Corporate video, Audiobooks |
| WORKS WITH | #tts#reader#accessibility | #voice#tts#agents | , | #voice#tts#voiceover |
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