Text-to-speech reader that turns documents, articles and books into audio
Speechify is a text-to-speech reader built around listening rather than audio production. Point it at a PDF, a web article, an email or an e-book and it reads the text back in a natural voice, keeping your position synced across phone, desktop and browser extension so you can start on one device and continue on another. Optical character recognition handles scanned pages and photos of text, which is where plain screen readers give up. It also offers a library of narrating voices, playback speeds well above normal reading pace, and the option to record your own voice for personal listening. It is a consumer and accessibility tool first; studio-grade voice generation belongs to dedicated platforms.
Last updated: 2026-09-20. This site only provides an index; for exact features, pricing, and licensing, see the official website.
reading long documents hands-free, accessibility support, study revision and commuting listening
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Yes, OCR is included, so photographed pages and scans are converted to text before being read. Accuracy depends on the scan: straight, high-contrast pages work far better than skewed or handwritten ones.
The premium voices are close to human for general prose, and the free tier uses more mechanical ones. Technical text with dense notation, or unusual proper nouns, will still mispronounce occasionally.
That is outside its main purpose and the terms restrict commercial redistribution of the generated audio. For narration assets, use a dedicated speech synthesis platform instead.
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