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Speechify — Text to Speech

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  • Extension status: Featured
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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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Speechify — Text to Speech
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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
thank you!
Anonymous
A great tool to have on my tool belt.
Anonymous
Very nice. Love the voices they have. Tons of features. This is the best speech extension I have found for chrome.
Anonymous
I love the convenience of listening to the written text, in almost all the apps.
Anonymous
works great the only bad part about it it can't read Google Slides.
Anonymous
Works like a dream. Both the web extension and the mobile app. You can even clone voices with the Speechify Studio which is nice. Though be warned this is a paid subscription, but its well worth it.
Anonymous
helped me through reading in law school when my eyes and brain became tired
Anonymous
Helps me with school work
Anonymous
Love it for students in high school who need language and reading support.
Anonymous
Really helpful!
Anonymous
SOOO HELPFUL!
Anonymous
So good for being able to focus in on large documents.
Anonymous
I've gone back to college to finish a degree I tried to start many many years ago. Love how it makes me more focus as I read along or listen in my car. Love the chat feature as well.
Anonymous
Best thing ever. I truly despise reading long research articles and this lets me listen to them.
Anonymous
I could not get through my PhD program without this tool. I only wish that they would get rid of the word count.
Anonymous
Listening to Gwenyth Paltrow read to me, makes it easier to understand the content.
Anonymous
This is a really great tool, but they need to do two important things to make it an all-time winner: 1. Articles in the library need to keep playing one after the other is finished. For someone who queues up a bunch of articles, this very simple change not having been implemented seems insane. 2. They need an offline mode that doesn't depend on the internet. I guess you can generate and download a podcast, but it should pretty much by default just be offline.
Anonymous
Wonderful addition to help me with my studies. The catalogue of voices are perfect for different topics and fun to listen. I'm finishing my studies faster than ever before. Great job Speechify!!!
Anonymous
I'm doing a masters degree and i use Speechify all the time for reading my assignments back to me to make sure they sound right, and for reading and summarising academic texts that would otherwise take me far too long to read! A time-saver for sure.
Anonymous
ok
Anonymous
Great product!
Anonymous
This is fantastic for me as a pdf reader as well as any web site. I love it
Anonymous
gooooodddd
Anonymous
Has been helping me out since it came out. I use it for everything! It makes it easier for me to understand my work by being bale to listen and helps me get my work done faster.
Anonymous
Didn't remember the voice I chose. In fact, I think it did; I think it must be that to use this you must take the free trial and then pay for the rest of your life with recurring billing. Also, it only reads web pages it seems. No very good at all. Far better tools are available for free (forever) on Github. I suggest you avoid and research something free.
Anonymous
Speechify is an absolute game changer. Speechify helps to increase reading speeds and listening speeds. This allows me to process information at over 600 words per minute which makes college textbooks, documents, and transcripts a breeze. More enjoyably I can listen to stories or News articles for background noise. I recommend it to everyone.
Anonymous
Freaking brilliant, I have ADHD and have a hard time focusing and its helped LOADS!
Anonymous
This is a good tool to have.
Anonymous
I love using this text to speech. It can be costly, but it is so worth it. I struggle to read all my assignments for school as I can only sit and read for song long without going crazy. There is a few issues with it like it will read citations even when i choose for it to skip them and sometimes it will randomly stop reading while still playing and then pick back up in a later sentence. The second issue is usually when I am driving though, so I think that has to do the service, but it happens even if i have downloaded the audio. I really do love the service, but there is still many bugs and issues that need to be fixed. I am hoping that over time they will impove!
Anonymous
I use it all the time but I have to frequently deal with problems such as needing to go to the speachify website to have a webpage read to me. Sometimes when it's reading from webpage itself, it skips paragraphs, I then have to go to the speachify website and paste in the URL. It's a bit of a faff (inconvenience) but I've gotten used to it. It's really useful because I love to read but I struggle to. Especially large paragraphs where I can lose where I am. Or just normal sentences where I have to reread because I saw one word as another (getting the letters mixed up). I also like doing two things at once and speachify enables me to do that. I use it to both read leisurely and for studying. 4/5 stars because I love it but there are problems. (using free version)
Anonymous
I love speechify, it helped me get my book ready for audio production but for the past month I have had nothing but problems, I see a lot of new features but then nothing works especially on google docs. Speechify see this and tell me what is going on if it is growing pains from new features cool, but the lack of support and communication is frustrating. If it starts to get better I will change the review but for now it is almost unusable. For those reading this I have listened to over 500 hours of audio with it and the bugs are a new thing.
Anonymous
I love it, I highly recommend it!! You can study for you exams with the quizzes tool 10/10
Anonymous
Such an excellent tool to assist with writing. Hearing back what you have written in your own voice is a game changer.
Anonymous
Helps for school stuff
Anonymous
works as advertised
Anonymous
Love Love Love... Amazing..
Anonymous
Suck a great tool! I use it every day!
Anonymous
This has been an incredible tool, absolutely life-changing. As someone who has always had attention deficit issues and cannot for the life of them sit down and read a book, this has been a life changer. Ever since I got assigned readings still in middle school, I was always the person who would search up the audiobook version of whatever book we were reading in class because I just couldn't sit down and read it. I didn't want to if I didn't have to. I love absorbing knowledge, but sitting down and reading can be such a challenge for me to keep my attention focused. I love multitasking. With this tool, I am able to do that so, so easily. University education suddenly became accessible to me and I can study a very literature-heavy course in anthropology and be able to stay on top of all my readings and homework without falling behind thanks to this tool. Sometimes I just turn it on and listen to my articles for the week while washing the dishes or doing a hobby of mine. Or if the text is really difficult, I can zoom in and read along. It has helped me so much in finding the energy to get up and actually start on doing work because it does the reading work for me. All I need to do is listen. For the way my brain works, this tool is entirely worth the investment and it's great that this extension exists for Speechify as well to help me get through articles or anything else on my screen. Sometimes I'm just way too tired to focus on it and actually give it my attention. This takes that commitment factor out of it. It lowers the bar, makes the hurdle easier to overcome. Incredible tool for the neurodivergent.
Anonymous
Very useful tool and makes life a lot easier to bring in efficiencies...
Anonymous
Like it a lot
Anonymous
use it all the time to study and read emails works great!
Anonymous
Speechify is the best.
Anonymous
I love speechify and use it constantly! I have issues with my typing and often use speechify on my google docs. I often mix up letters or have trouble with pronunciation or spelling. Hearing speechify read my documents helps me to catch issues with the sentence structure, grammar and spelling. It doesn't always work on google docs which is one of the only problems I've noted but otherwise it is amazing and extremely helpful!
Anonymous
Speechify is awesome. It helps me power through content and information fast. I literally have it talking to me all day long. And the voices are money — the best out there by far.
Anonymous
I wish it can speak Filipino.
Anonymous
Speechify has increased my productivity many times over. It was well worth the investment.
Anonymous
I use it for work, school and pleasure it has made my life so good! I went from a B/C student in the RN program to an A/B student!
Anonymous
very practical and easy to use
Anonymous
good , easy to access and much help full
Anonymous
Great for my dyslexia