Speechify

Speechify is a text-to-speech and voice typing AI assistant for students, professionals, and anyone who wants to listen to written content instead of reading it.

Key capabilities include:

• Read-aloud across devices (Web, iOS, Android, macOS, Chrome and Edge extensions) for books, PDFs, documents, and web pages with variable playback speed (up to 1.5x on free plans, up to 5x on Premium) and text highlighting
• File import and OCR to turn PDFs and images into spoken audio, plus multilingual support in 60+ languages
• Voice typing and dictation for faster writing in apps, plus AI summaries, chat, and AI podcast creation from documents
• Developer API for low-latency text-to-speech with SSML support (API console and docs available)

Pricing: Freemium. Premium is $29/month or $139/year ($11.58/month). Audiobooks plan is $9.99/month (annual) or $14.99/month. API includes a free tier plus Pay-As-You-Go at $10 per 1M characters.

Notable for combining reading, dictation, and Q&A around long-form content in one tool, plus broad platform support and an API for integrating the same TTS stack into apps and workflows.