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VoiceSpeechify

Speechify

AI text-to-speech that reads any document, PDF, or page aloud.

Category
Voice
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Proprietary
Hosting
Cloud
Platforms
iOSAndroidWebBrowser extensionmacOSWindowsAPI
Models
Single model (proprietary)
Verified
Jun 7, 2026

Speechify is an AI text-to-speech app that turns articles, PDFs, emails, and books into natural-sounding audio with high-definition voices, adjustable speed, and OCR for scanned text. It runs on iOS, Android, web, a browser extension, and desktop, and offers a separate Studio product plus a text-to-speech API for developers.

Capabilities 6

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • OCR / scanned-document extraction (secondary capability)
  • Speech synthesis (TTS) (primary capability)
  • Voice cloning (secondary capability)
  • Dubbing (secondary capability)
  • Dictation (secondary capability)
  • Summarization (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • OCR reads scanned text and PDFs
  • Up to 4.5x playback speed
  • iOS, Android, web, extension, desktop
  • Separate Studio + API for developers
  • Best features behind paywall
  • Voice cloning lives in separate product
  • Premium voices gated to higher tiers

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