Speechify Text to Speech Voice Reader

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Read aloud any Google Doc, PDF, webpage, or book with text to speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 30+ languages & 130 voices.

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Description from store Text to speech from Speechify lets you listen to docs, articles, PDFs, email, and other formats — anything you read. It’s one of the fastest growing voice generator extensions in the Chrome store. Our speech synthesis TTS technology is trusted by millions of happy users who listen in various languages and accents in the most natural-sounding speech. Our users have listened to 6.5 billion words. == Speechify text to speech features == ➤ Listen at any speed Read up to 4.5x faster — 900 words per minute. Our high-quality AI voices can read 4.5x faster than the average reading speed so that you can learn even more in less time. While it isn’t easy to listen to 900 words per minute, we won’t stop you from achieving your full potential. ➤ Listen on desktop or mobile devices. Anything you’ve saved to your Speechify library instantly syncs across devices so that you can listen to anything, anywhere, anytime. Saved artifacts are synced to the cloud and accessible across all your devices. Make sure to install our mobile app on your Android or iOS devices. ➤ Human-like voices Our voices sound more fluid and human-like than any other AI reader, so you can understand and remember more. ➤ Screenshot image to audio Found an image with text on it? Take a pic and have Speechify read it out loud to you. You can easily take a screenshot and sync it to your cloud with one click. ➤ Floating widget The floating widget is always accessible when you need it. Move it around, dock it, or completely hide it. ➤ Other features • Active highlighting to help you easily read along. • Inline player seamlessly integrates into all your websites for easy and quick access. • One subscription and easily sync across all your devices. == How Speechify works == • Speechify scans your active tab in your browser and, in real time, converts the content to a most human-sounding voice. • Works beautifully with Gmail, Google docs, Word docs, PDFs, Twitter, Wikipedia entries, blogs, news publications, and every web page you visit. It’s perfect for school, work, e-learning, learning a second language, and casual reading. • You can take a picture of any text and import it into the app to read aloud. With over 130+ voices to choose from across various languages, you can find the perfect one you love. Some voices are very recognizable. Mr. President, for instance, or even the officially licensed Gwyneth Paltrow voice, is one of our users’ favorites. == Use cases == Speechify was first built to serve a single purpose: to help with dyslexia. But the use case for our app with the best-sounding voices exploded. If you love to read, need to read, or struggle with reading, Speechify is for you. ➤ Students at any grade level Read faster and retain much more. Listen to your notes or textbook and follow along while stimulating auditory and visual senses. ➤ People with disabilities Speechify was created by Cliff Weitzman, who struggled with dyslexia. It helped him excel at his studies. ➤ People struggling with vision issues or injuries that prevent them from reading Other disabilities such as dry eyes, migraines, TBIs, or any illness that's a barrier to reading. Our mission has been constant – remove barriers to reading. ➤ Professionals like lawyers & doctors Professions that require extensive reading, such as lawyers, doctors, editors, and such, can read important case files quickly and become more familiar with their work in shorter amounts of time. ➤ Storytime Parents can use text to speech to read their children’s favorite books at home or on those long car rides. You don’t have to turn on an iPad or a movie to entertain your kids. They can listen to their favorite stories over and over again. Reading has proven to have significant results in early childhood development. Let them read. ➤ Productivity hackers Save time with speed reading everything. No more lengthy emails. Use Speechify to automate your life. Speechify works great on Notion and other productivity tools. ➤ People who love podcasts Reading your favorite blog, news article, or a lengthy PDF, but it’s time to work out? No problem. Simply press play, and Speechify will convert your article into speech. ➤ Avid readers Those working in Google Docs. Efficiently read and share audio versions from within the docs for review.

Latest reviews

(2023-02-07) DCon Playz: I have ADHD and this extension is a hidden gem when it comes to late night study sessions. Allows me to push through the dopamine craving paralysis and get through my work. Hoorah!!!
(2023-02-07) Kyle Richardson: Absolutely the best tts tool, but its very expensive. Its practically unusable without purchasing one of two plans, $139 for 1 year, or $50 a month.
(2023-02-06) KaraNot Medusa: it help me read when I mentally don't want to.
(2023-02-06) Tariq Hussain: Saves a lot of time. Makes life easy
(2023-02-06) Dws designs: The ability to highlight and take notes is a great feature for retaining information. Overall, Speechify is an excellent tool for anyone looking to enhance their reading and listening abilities and is highly recommended.
(2023-02-06) ASTORY.TV點閱率排行榜: very good
(2023-02-05) Taryn Brownfield: I absolutely love this extension but currently it is skipping the last word or two of sentences, completely randomly. I submitted an issue weeks ago, and have only heard back to get the same useless troubleshooting advice, but the problem persists. I'm rating this 1 star for now in the hopes that this will help get the issue resolved. Currently, this is not useable for me as a screen reader because of this issue.
(2023-02-05) Ruji Masiri: saves time
(2023-02-04) Andrew Rios: So buggy. Crashes nearly every use. Not compatible with most of the pages I need it for, so I end up using their clunky local document feature, which can't be edited. I end up using a free speech to text tool just as often because this thing refuses to work properly. The voices are actually amazing, outside of that the product is awful. Not worth the frustration let alone the high price.
(2023-02-04) nd biller: first off, i don't dislike speechify per se, but i have to agree with mr bot, who mentioned edge does the same for free a few pages in, which i didn't even know before. and overall i'd say speechify is too expensive, has word limitations with premium voices, you notice "incentives" designed to push upgrading on you everywhere, the ui/ux could be improved as well in some aspects... ok, snoop dog or john cleese as a voice is a usp, true dat... but seriously, have you tried making edge read a website to you? i'm honestly re-thinking using chrome as my main browser right now, just because the TTS in edge is working so amazingly right out of the box, no extra installs, no errors, completely natural speech, fluid like nothing i heard before from TTS voices, not even from speechify... come to think of it, aren't you using the same windows voices here as well? because in speechify i still got small skips and breaks, no matter which voice i used, while edge was like someone read the text to me live and in person in comparison. just try it and compare both apps yourself, if you're on windows. highly recommended and really free.
(2023-02-04) xavier tio: I love the snoop dog voice its soothing lol
(2023-02-04) asui tsu: I really like it when I don't have to read myself but it does cut out a little but I don't mind it, I'm a fanfic writer and reader so this helps alot!
(2023-02-04) Jennifer Hill: It's very helpful for my PhD program. Lots of reading and my eyes just can't keep up. Grateful for the support!
(2023-02-04) Fizzy Freako: Works Great for any website
(2023-02-04) Diêgo Araújo: Excelente!!
(2023-02-04) Sota S: I use this in English and German. Both works perfectly!
(2023-02-04) saira sedano: great
(2023-02-03) Andrew Bleiler: Incapable of reading PDFs and the web app is disgustingly bad
(2023-02-03) Jonathan Stomber: Amazing app - has to the best app on the market for text to speech software.
(2023-02-02) Juan Enrique Garcia: It gives no much value to a non-premium user...
(2023-02-02) Huy Quang: Love this app! It helps me learn English through listening an easier and better way. Thanks!
(2023-02-02) Nana Boakye Osei Tutu: love this app, its helping me get through more work. still love this app after more then a year
(2023-02-01) Haarin Lipari: The free plan have not spanish available. just english. I'm not satisfied at all.
(2023-02-01) Gacha Muskie: This extension is very nice to use! :D it helps me to understand my work better
(2023-01-31) Elijah Taylor: This is about as perfect a free app as exists. You can get premium voices, however all others functions work well on free and /that/ is what has me considering going paid. Seriously helpful app!
(2023-01-31) Pablo (Chino) Salas: Practical
(2023-01-31) Marcus Dantas: It's amazing, best one I've tried and really improves my productivity. Listening to Snoop Dogg read academic articles is always the best!
(2023-01-31) Cristian Puscas: I love it, but it's so pricy!!
(2023-01-31) Lillian Logical Louise “Lilly Logic” water: It's good, but I wish it were free, completely, though I understand it's premium cost.
(2023-01-31) WC Y: Very good!
(2023-01-31) Glen Clark: My entire life have tried to break the habit of reading word by word in my head. I never made it. I managed OK. I was talking to a fellow learner a while back and she said "Then don't try to break that habit. In fact, read out loud, maybe that is your learning style." Speechify saves my vocal chords. Alas there are some e-books it does not work with but it does work with my Kindle so I can use it for my fun reading. I like some of the new voices, especially the John Cleese one. Reminds me of an old professor of mine.
(2023-01-31) Carlos Esteban Rivera Triunfo: I'm an author and I love this tool so far. I guess my only complaint would be that if you use it to read off Google Docs when you're using it to edit a document and hear how your writing sounds, the moment you make any change it asks you to refresh the tool, which isn't a problem, except it takes you all the way back to the start of the document, which makes you have to scroll ALL THE WAY DOWN to where you made the change, even if the change might have just been a comma. Why can't the tool refresh, but leave you on the page you're in. Even Windows Read Out Loud does this.
(2023-01-30) Carly Eldstrom: I use Speechify for work to help me stay focused when reading lengthy documents. This extension used to work for Google Docs, which is where most of my work is, but has ceased to function (no audio output). I will keep checking in on this as I love the program otherwise!
(2023-01-30) Dr. Latish Reed - Leading for Equity: This tool is helping me write a book by listening to what I have written. I love the "Snoop" voice! He helps me visual my project in the mainstream.
(2023-01-30) victoria valverde: This tool has severely helped me manage staying focused while reading. Due to my ADHD I find it is very difficult to read to myself but with this tool reading is a breeze. The price is pretty steep at a $139 per year but its so worth it.
(2023-01-29) German: работает ток черз рег а потом фиг
(2023-01-29) Wesley: Forced sign up, trial text to speech when it's free elsewhere, overall annoying experience. Heres a 1 star free of charge.
(2023-01-28) Faye Dumbrigue: Love this extension, helps me get through the longest of readings while still being able to understand the content because of their option to customize reading speed. I'm able to learn and understand at my own pace and I also enjoy the plethora of options for reading voices as it keeps me engaged in the content.
(2023-01-28) Dave Culp: I love it...it's been a real game-changer for me! Thanks Speechify!!!
(2023-01-28) elberth cabrales: fails often in chrome
(2023-01-27) Perspectivas Brillantes: Speechify routinely ignores some words in the pronunciation of selected text. I don't know why, but Speechify randomly skips certain words as though this words does not exist.
(2023-01-27) Captain Price: its really good
(2023-01-27) Michael Ross: Speechify, I love you. Dwight from the Office just read my research thesis to me and it made me smile. Snoop Dogg, Barrack Obama and a British narrator are also my favourite voices to read me to sleep at night. I could not completed my Doctorate courses with out you. Keep up the great work and can you please add Morgan Freeman or any of Jim Henson's muppets! Could you train your AI with all the audio from the Muppet show? :)
(2023-01-27) Sofia Waas: So useful for readings as a university student.
(2023-01-26) Alex Ingraham: My dyslexia is resolved using this extension
(2023-01-26) François-Xavier Julien: very good
(2023-01-26) WS L: can't use without sign up
(2023-01-26) Abduselam: Awesome to read articles fast!
(2023-01-26) Muhammad Huzaifa: This works like shittt. Full of bugs, can't work smoothly on web pages. They give 1500 words for free to listen and then beg you to buy constantly until one gets annoyed.
(2023-01-26) Danielle Angerbauer: I don't think I can live without it now!

Latest issues

(2020-07-06, v:4.0.3) Drew Snelgrove: Selective Web sites
As mentioned by others, the Control graphics look great, but are unusable at bottom on the page. Most of all, the web sites that have been wonderfully read from Speechify for the last 10 months, are no longer able to be read. Help! Drew
(2020-07-02, v:4.0.3) Sandeep Thapa: Please give us back the old features
The play button is a distractions. I mainly use option+q to read highlighted text. Now I can not do any of that, I cannot use the shortcut nor can I read the highlighted text. It reads the whole page. The update is just sad. Please, do something.
(2020-07-02, v:4.0.3) Jon Bachelor: Not liking the new control on web pages
I believe it came from the update on 2020.07.01 - a new graphic for a speechify control is now displayed in the lower-right of basically all web pages now, and I have been unable to find any sort of preference to turn this off. Please give us an option to turn off this on-page UI element... On some websites, it winds up interfering with their page (here is a screenshot of an example from Outdoorsy: https://share.getcloudapp.com/jkuQOlz1). Even if it did not directly get in the way, I am not a fan of adding new UI elements to a page unless it is absolutely necessary. Just a little toggle to turn it off would be very much appreciated. Thanks for the great work, overall! Jon
(2020-07-02, v:4.0.0) Jon Bachelor: July 1, 2020 update not working on Chrome
Just like I see others reporting, the extension just shows the animated 3 dots. I never even get to a login. I can get to a login clicking on the new icon at the lower-right of the web page, but the login page I get to suffers the same eternal 3 animated dots problem as the extension icon in the toolbar.
(2020-07-01, v:4.0.0) Sandeep Thapa: Speechify stuck at dot for chorme
I love this app but It has recently stopped working.
(2020-07-01, v:4.0.0) Nicholas DeSimone: Cannot use speechify on Chrome
I cannot sign in. the dots keep spinning and it says logging in. but it never logs in.
(2020-05-26, v:3.2.11) Daniel Szulc: stopped working on chrome
stopped working on newest chrome
(2020-04-30, v:3.2.11) Ana Wilson: Log in
I cannot log in through my user name and email.
(2020-03-11, v:3.2.11) Luis Javier Rolón Guatibonza: No funciona en textos de pdf que abro en chroome
intento seleccionar el programa Speechify y no me funciona en archivos pdf que abro en el chrome, quisiera saber por que o que debo hacer para solucionar este inconveniente
(2020-01-24, v:3.2.11) Acton East Bay Guides: Doesn't display all language choices
Trying to install on a student chromebook. Languages only listed are US Male, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Hindi and Indonesian. Whereas, on my computer, I see many more including UK Male. Is there a security setting which limits this?
(2019-05-28, v:3.2.7) Waqas Rabbani: Does not show written words
There are few problems with extension; 1. In the pop-up window of the extension, can't see the text along with audio, as it is shown in intro video. I can hear to sound, but there the no corresponding text. 2. When click on extension icon after selecting text, the audio doesn't start. It starts only when I click on extension's icon from right click menu. 3. When audio starts playing, there is no way to stop it. No matter how many times I click on pause button from extension's pop-up menu, it doesn't pause. Please guide me how to fix these issues.
(2019-04-30, v:3.2.0) Thalia Rodkin: what extension should I be using
had to download the app again because it stopped working/reading the highlighted text and seemed to be asking for a sign in and password, which I didn't realize I had before. when I downloaded it again it asked what extension to use...I didn't know so I picked window media player....guess what, that doesn't work, and now I don't know what to do.
(2019-03-07, v:3.1.4) Chrome extension
does not read after highlighting paragraph
(2019-02-13, v:3.1.4) french voice
Hi! I've been trying to use the french voice but the reading stops after a minute or so. It doesn't read all the text I selected but it stops after a few lines. Can you tell me why that is ? Thank you for your help and for speechify that provides very natural sounding voices.
(2019-01-18, v:3.1.4) Chromebook?
Can you tell me if Speechify works on a Chrombook?
(2019-01-15, v:3.1.4) Vivek Sathe: Send to iPhone
I am using the Chrome Extension but not able to send 'selected text' from a sample file in Google Doc directly to my iPhone though as suggested i'm logged into same google account on both desktop and iPhone. Not sure what i'm doing wrong. Thanks, Vivek Sathe
(2018-12-27, v:3.1.3) MM A: Move existing Speechify files to New Folder
I have several existing files that I imported into Speechify. How to I move those files to the new folders that I created for organization? I am on the Android OS. If there is no direct way, where are the files stored in the directory structure ? Perhaps, I can move from behind the scenes. Thank you in advance for your support. I love Speechify!
(2018-11-14, v:3.1.3) Michael D'Arcangelo: not reading
hello, i think i need an update? i cannot get speechify to ready any amount of text. Thanks
(2018-08-23, v:3.1.3) Amber Wootan: Can't download
I'm trying to download Speechify. And nothing is happening when I push the added to chrome button.
(2018-05-30, v:3.1.2) Jason Shellen: Blocking access to some sites
Visit sumo.com with extension-enabled, can't see any content. Disable extension, content appears fine.

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