Speechify — Text to Speech
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- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Read aloud any Google Doc, PDF, webpage, or book with text to speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 30+ languages & 130 voices.
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
- Anonymous
- Very useful.
- Anonymous
- I subscribed to Speechify to help my son process written information, he can even listen to it in my voice. I use it more than he does. Right now I'm listening to my campuses safety and emergency procedures. If I was just reading it my mind would start wondering as soon as it decided it was bored. This way I can focus on the words I'm hearing and follow along - I retain it so much better that way. When I need to review an email or manual that I'm writing, I slow the pace down and listen intently. It's so easy to catch grammatical and typing errors. And the extension works so well! I just click the extension icon and the control panel appears.
- Anonymous
- Speechify allows me the flexibility to study while I walk, drive, or am simply struggling to focus. It is a must-have for law students!
- Anonymous
- It has literally changed my life.
- Anonymous
- honestly extreamly helpful. for auditory learners this is probly one of the best study tools for them. me personally i like being able to read and have it say what im reading so i can focus on the text better and allows me to listen to lectures very easily
- Anonymous
- very helpful , makes studying a breeze .
- Anonymous
- incredibly useful as a fiction writer
- Anonymous
- Very useful.
- Anonymous
- Speechify has become a productivity dream. As a person who struggles with low grade Dyslexia, Speechify has made my weakness my strength. I am now able to process difficult reading or contracts at 3x the rate with 200% better comprehension.
- Anonymous
- ok
- Anonymous
- Speechify Premium is one of the best things that has happened to my brain and education. I do not think I would get through my Bachelors and Masters degree without it. Worth every penny for ADHDers, probably people with dyslexia, and people with auditory processing disorders. This is an impulse buy you will not regret. Got a super long medical journal article that you don't have time to read? Speechify will also generate a summary of the entire study for you. I cannot recommend this program enough.
- Anonymous
- Very Natural and very Good. Unmatched quality.
- Anonymous
- Do not get it is a waste of time. they go through this big long process of adjusting it to your preferences. When you got to actually use it it tells you that in order to have HD voices you have to have premium. The only non-HD voices are the basic google translate voices. Would give 0 stars.
- Anonymous
- Its a great app that has become too expensive. I have shared the link with friends and despite of them purchasing I didn't receive any discount, it has become a total scam. Free voice is a joke. I doubt I will pay to extend my use, looking for a replacement that is less greedy
- Anonymous
- Great voices. Sounds amazing. The software can be a tad clunky from time to time. I'm a paid subscriber and things like my selected favorite voice changes to another voice, and some of the default 'features' I needed to turn off so they don't interfere with my browsing. And too, proofing reviews, having them read to me like the one I'm writing now, can NOT be read to me. But overall it's a really amazing product.
- Anonymous
- In the first seconds of the video there is information that it is a free extension, and after installation the first thing that hits you is the information about payments.
- Anonymous
- I use this on a regular basis to help read through technical articles. I end up having to skip some sections, mainly because it doesn't read code well. Considering that limitation, I'd still rate it a 5 out of 5!
- Anonymous
- Amazing and the voices are so natural
- Anonymous
- Life saver!! Love it!
- Anonymous
- I love it
- Anonymous
- Excellent - I love this.
- Anonymous
- Game changer for me!
- Anonymous
- Helps with dyslexia
- Anonymous
- Speechify is ok, but, it still sounds robotic, Even for the basic. It's okay though. Just saying honestly.
- Anonymous
- COLLEGE MUST HAVE!! Speechify has been my saving grace as someone who struggles with dyslexia and is also an auditory learner. I would have probably failed so many college classes and assignments if it wasn't for speechify ( It also pairs very well with Canvas on my pc). Also, for me premium is worth every penny and I appreciate the helpful AI bot and summary generators that I use to help summarize large amounts of reading that I have to do for assignments. Speechify is my superpower. I recommend it every chance I get.
- Anonymous
- Very good
- Anonymous
- very useful
- Anonymous
- I'm in nursing school, have ADHD, and finally don't have to reread paragraphs over and over again! It is such a time saver and it helps the information stick so much better when I can follow the words as they're read out loud to me. I can take notes while still making progress on the information as it continues to read. I can change the speed at which it is read to me depending on how dense the material is, so if it is stuff I already know and just want a little bit of a blurb to refresh myself, I can pump it up to 2x speed and power through a chapter in 10 minutes vs the 60 it would have taken me to read it myself. (I'm not illiterate or anything, just easily distracted if the material isn't an entertaining novel and I don't believe an entertaining textbook has ever been considered). Highly recommend for anyone in school with online reading requirements, or anyone who has to read PDF's or papers for work but also has to commute, or maybe you just like reading Reddit AITA stories and don't want to have to hear those AI bot voices reading them like they do on tiktok. It has a lot of uses and makes a lot of stuff more efficient for me, hopefully it will for you too!
- Anonymous
- As a visually impaired individual, Speechify has made my life so much easier! The pop-up screen is annoying.
- Anonymous
- Great tool, I'm a guy that prefers learning through listening so this does an amazing job.
- Anonymous
- Great reading tool for busy users!
- Anonymous
- Fab bit of software needs tweaks as IV isn't always four, it stands for Independent Variable and got quite confusing when Speechify kept saying 4s rather than IVs! Overall a fantastic tool that has helped greatly with my studies so far! Having read the reviews I had funding for the software I am unsure if I would have purchased it....
- Anonymous
- The absolute first thing it does it force you to create an account. The next thing is to ask you to subscribe to a premium service (because there are no voices). Most other TTS extension manages to work fine out of the box with all the free voices out there.
- Anonymous
- I love speechify as I can use it in multiple devices and on the go. It helps me tremendously with my ADHD challenges of reading. Thank you!
- Anonymous
- I need hands-free operation often and appreciate the automatic participation of Speechify
- Anonymous
- I love the options you get for voices, but the price is crazy for what it is! I'd consider purchasing the subscription if the price was much lower!
- Anonymous
- I love being able to listen and read at the same time; it makes comprehending the text and remembering the information much easier. The voices are great and very natural. I also love that you can vary the speed depending on the complexity of the text. I am dyslexic, and without doubt, it has increased my productivity.
- Anonymous
- You do have to pay for it, but it's worth it if you use it. Works on every website I've tried so far, and using Alt+A to start/stop is really convenient. I love it! Also you can download pdfs/files and use the speechify app to listen to things elsewhere. I use it to read in the car!
- Anonymous
- I love this!! it makes my life easier
- Anonymous
- Best App Ever, Great team and a great product! Would recommend for anyone, sometimes it's really helpful just to have something read back to you when you're proofreading it!
- Anonymous
- I love it, 4 stars because when i travel it disconnects and freezes. not sure how to fix that.
- Anonymous
- Awesome Platform. Works for me and you should give it a try. You will love it.
- Anonymous
- Very poor vision: I certainly appreciate this app.
- Anonymous
- this app is amazing for anyone looking for help reading or understanding any type of university work it also does a great job of doing pre reading on the way to lectures
- Anonymous
- This app helped me to read more books than ever before. It's not perfect, but overall it performs well.
- Anonymous
- its very helpful i can read and listen at a time
- Anonymous
- great! it helps me a lot it is great for people with disabiltys. I use it every day.
- Anonymous
- I worked in the High Tech Center lab at Santa Monica College helping students with disabilities. I've tested and recommended various text-to-speech solutions for our students. I'm retired now and writing my second book. I use Speechify to proofread my work and LOVE IT! The voices are state of the art. Thank you!
- Anonymous
- This Chrome extension can read French texts well and I am sure it would be a help to my students who have a hard time reading, but--and this is why I gave it 4 stars--it's expensive. Few of my students' families could afford to pay for this app. It would be nice if it were free for Educators and students.
- Anonymous
- brilliant bit of kit it has realy helped me with my univeristy work. As someone with dylexia this has been invaluble to my studies, some of the features seem a bit reduntant or pointless to me (the AI podcast generator for example) but i can see them being a fun/useful tool for someone else. highly recomend the product if you struggle with high volumes of reading.