Speechify — Text to Speech

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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

(2025-04-10) Trey Lumley: Been using it for 2 years now. Helps greatly with work research and school work.
(2025-02-27) Crazy Recluse: Great, so much better than reading! but needs a 0.9x, 0.8x 0.7x speeds.
(2025-02-14) Moe Kyaw: You read out, I listen up. Who wouldn't dislike this?:) I'd like to tap 6 stars! it's awesome to hear my email read out loud by someone. I like this, I love it. And I cherish. Thank you and Bravo ! Speechify. That's so imaginative!
(2025-01-19) Charlene Allison: Speechify is a proper game-changer. I used to be a major bookworm, an avid reader, but with age comes the tiredness of once bright and sparkling eyes. Speechify has given me back what I thought I'd lost. I'm also a school teacher, and with that comes lots and lots of essay and story reading. Speechify has, literally, changed the game for me.
(2024-12-26) Sarah Varg: noice
(2024-10-07) Carissa: The extension is easy to use, and makes reading so much more accessible to my ADHD brain. Premium version is offered by my university, and it has changed my life as a college student! Thank you!!
(2024-09-16) Morgan Zhang: Updated on 2024: For those whose extension does not work, try to update chrome browser and reinstall the extension. I have solved my problem, hope my tip could help. I hope there were a monthly subcription plan instead of 12 months payment per year.
(2024-09-13) Hadar Weitzman: **Update September 12, 2024. I am still using the Chrome extension and mainly the AI enhanced voices which Speechify has developed recently. These AI voices sound very real, and easy to listen, just like a natural person. I specifically like the "Erica" voice. (but you may like others). ** My original review was (from 2018): I am amazed how they fixed many bugs and improved the Chrome extension. I am using it all the time now. Simply love this app. English is my second language, so for me it's much easier and faster to listen with this app then reading, especially when I am tired (even when it's just a fb post - when it's longer than one paragraph). I've also improved my speed in listening thanks to this app. Recommended!!
(2024-07-12) Sparktite (Beau): This app at first is pretty good. The voices are good and theres a lot of control over the voice. However, it only took about 5-15 mins before it stopped reading any text whatsoever because it wanted me to create a login and use that. There is literally no reason to force me into making a login for this service when i already had it working, and it works without creating an account. Seems kinda scummy to be honest, i think im just gonna go back to read aloud and or TTS for Google extensions. UPDATE/EDIT - UPDATE/EDIT - UPDATE/EDIT - UPDATE/EDIT: I found that i was willing to use a google sign in option to basically make a throw away account since my last review. I was actually semi content because the voices were great and while it was probably more taxing than my other TTS extension to use have running on a billion tabs, it sounded so much nicer that i got rid of my old one. Very soon after i found out i was being limited down to the basic microsoft sam style voices even though i was having all the other settings default and not using any features at all. I was then cut off from using the app to have a voice remind me that i cant use the nice voices unless i pay for a subscription. Because for some reason that makes sense rather than me just saying that this app is terrible, a complete waste of time, and left me worse off than i had i just not wasted my time with it and kept using the app i already liked before. Its okay though because soon enough all of this will be pretty old and phased out. Well start seeing more competition for actually usable apps potentially with adverts however that will be 100X better than what this extension currently has to offer. I cant wait to see this app fall into obscurity. Again to drive the point home. I would give this an app 0 or negative stars were it possible, and i am surprised to find that the app was somehow worse than i expected and thought it was when i left my initial 1 star dont waste your time herte review lol.
(2024-06-05) Davina Smith: STEALING DATA No reason it needs to be reading and using my chrome history.
(2024-05-17) Mike Shaunessy: Am in my 2nd year using. The best text to speech out there. Use it every day. Adapts well to different online uses. Good customer support too. Recommend.
(2024-04-02) pabbi prem: Voices chosen for Hindi are quite incompetent , HORRIBLE..!!! If not possible to make proper delivery then better Hindi be removed from your Language List.
(2024-03-19) M Choi: I like the screen shot button. It helps me to focus on listening while reading a paragraph or two instead of a whole page. Whoever made an idea for a screen shot button is a game changer.
(2024-03-12) Jacklez: This extension saved me for school and I managed to increase my grades drastically because of it. Would recommend to anyone who doesn't like reading and would prefer to listen such as myself.
(2024-02-02) Jeffrey Miller: Why did you get rid of the skip sentence buttons? I don't want to be forced to hear headlines, captions and other junk! Please bring back the skip sentence buttons or I just can't use your product anymore. Edit: You brought the skip buttons back which was great, but you took them away again! Clicking on the sentence doesn't work nearly as well as the skip buttons. On some sites it'll jump to the top of the page suddenly or the sentences will have a very small clickable area. Please, please, bring back the skip buttons. I'm sorry skip buttons don't achieve the UI look you're trying to achieve, but I won't pay for something that has actively made it's product worse. 2-1-2024: Why the heck do you keep removing the skip sentence button? I don't even want to read articles now. Like, is it because you think skip buttons look lame or is there some financial decision that leads you to make the user experience so much worse?
(2024-02-01) J. Alarcón G.: Muy bien, cumple con lo que ofrece.
(2024-01-31) Split Systems Down Under Heating & Aircon Service: The absolute BEST software available. Nothing comes even close!
(2024-01-30) Deja Warren: Highly recommend it. Its a great tool to have!
(2024-01-29) IvanSuarezmusic: INCREIBLE MUY UTIL!!!
(2024-01-29) Ella Johnson: makes my work day so much better being able to focus on lengthy texts by having them read a loud while I read along or take notes. I use it for so many other resources as well as proofreading. Never have trouble with it. Love.
(2024-01-29) Kapil Sethia: Best TTS extension.
(2024-01-29) MiX So: There are problems with reading in Google Translate. Your plaging reads what do it want... several times, not just what is selected, but all in a row.
(2024-01-29) Yunus Parvez Khan: One of the best things I have ever used. Listening and reading something at the same time has significantly changed my research journeys.
(2024-01-28) Jesse Fajardo: Awesome it read a page of C++ text book in a minute flat and I picked up most if not all of the relevant information. Just I didn't have to pay for it sound like the program is educating me.
(2024-01-28) Nicholas T Stine: I developed some pretty strong learning challenges in the last 7 years, making a major deviation from my 40+ year learning style. From HS AcaDecathlete to severe struggles... having it read along to me is helping a lot, and I'm retaining a little better than when I only read it to myself.
(2024-01-27) Jamar Stoute: Pretty good, no issues so far.
(2024-01-26) Senzo Mgabhi: Great work from Speechify! There is always room for improvement.
(2024-01-25) Ed Kost: Helpful in reviewing emails and drafts thereof.
(2024-01-25) Joseph Banks: very clear voice
(2024-01-24) Daniel D'Amato: Great product
(2024-01-22) Michael Nathan: awesome program, I have been looking for something like this for quite some time, and I am glad that I found it. I am a very mobile person so I cannot sit still long enough to get through my school readings, but thanks to this program I can listen on the go! very useful, and if you are a multi-tasker like myself... this will definitely help! I highly recommend this app!
(2024-01-22) Richard F: Great for long texts. Great!
(2024-01-22) Jonathan de Villiers: Love the system simplicity and accuracy the voice options is fantatstic
(2024-01-21) Mahmudul Hasan: Useful and handy to use.. yet have some bugs and issues but still loved it tha way it is.
(2024-01-20) Ryan Richardson: I like it so far. we need a link or be able to use this on DuckDuckGo Browser.
(2024-01-19) Norah Alsuwailem: I love it. Very helpful.
(2024-01-19) Charbel Nehme: love it.
(2024-01-19) kelvin praise: EDIT: I love this extension but recently it has been giving me some headache, why does it automatically highlight text on the document and start playing, like you enter a site click a text and it starts reading out confidential info, not cool. _______________ Lovely!
(2024-01-19) Ugwuagbo Chibuzo: Epic!!
(2024-01-19) Sachin Jain: Insane extension , especially for people with dyslexia
(2024-01-18) Christopher Dews: It's a great app but has many glitches and does not pair well with Microsoft Outlook.
(2024-01-16) Steven Gager: So incredibly useful. I have always had trouble staying focused while reading. Speechify helps me understand text in front of me so I can process it better. 5/5
(2024-01-16) Lou Raposo: This app may be a five star, but have not used it enough yet.
(2024-01-15) graham usai: I love it, the voice doent sound very AI and it saves a lot of time
(2024-01-15) alzoidicon: schmoovy and groovy
(2024-01-14) Devansh Verma: excellent
(2024-01-13) Diego Arellano: Very useful
(2024-01-13) YEETS PRODUCTION: Severely ADHD and absolutely love this program. Helped me through so much learning in much efficient manner, without having to decipher what letters and alphabets juxtaposed right next to each other could spell out or mean.
(2024-01-13) Mikey Howell: For an auditory learner and/or anyone with reading comprehension issues, this is a game changer! The voice can be a little difficult to follow, it sounds robotic as opposed to fluid and human, but I think the value of this program far outweighs that small issue. It has saved me hours of time and extended trouble comprehending content by reading my college books and assignments to me.
(2024-01-12) Amel Senic: tis good

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