Speechify

Speechify is a text-to-speech and voice AI platform that turns written content such as PDFs, documents, articles, and emails into natural-sounding audio, using a library of more than 1,000 voices across 60-plus languages. Beyond reading content aloud, it includes voice typing for fast dictation, an AI voice assistant that can summarize and answer questions about what a user is reading or listening to, AI-generated podcasts from documents, voice notes with automatic summaries, meeting transcription, and voice cloning. The tool is aimed at professionals, students, content creators, and people with reading challenges such as dyslexia. It was founded in 2017 by Cliff Weitzman, who built the first version while at Brown University to help himself keep up with dyslexia-related reading struggles, and that origin still shapes the accessibility focus of the product today. Speechify is available as a web app, iOS and Android apps, native Mac and Windows apps, and a Chrome extension, and it connects with tools like Google Docs, Gmail, Slack, Outlook, and Cursor. Developers can also build on it through a text-to-speech and voice agents API. One honest limitation: the site does not lay out clear pricing tiers on its homepage, so understanding exactly what is included free versus paid requires signing up or digging through separate pages.