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At a glance

Price
from 29 $/mo
Vendor
Speechify Inc.

Specifications & properties

Key decision factors

Pricing model
Freemium 1
Audio functions
  • Text-to-speech
  • Voice cloning
1
Supported languages
60 languages 1

Pricing

Price from
29 $/mo 1
Free tier
Yes 1

Integration

API available
Yes 1

Capabilities

Voice count
1,000 voices 1
Report data / suggest a correction

Metrics vs. the category

Supported languages
60 languages Category max 100 languages (12 with data)
Voice count
1,000 voices Category max 10,000 voices (8 with data)
Latency (real-time audio)
n/a

Text to speech reader for documents, web pages and books with 1000+ premium AI voices; a separate developer API is offered. Free plan with basic voices, Premium at $29/month.

Profile

Speechify is a text-to-speech reading app that turns articles, books, PDFs and documents into natural-sounding audio, aimed at students, professionals and anyone who wants to listen instead of read, plus a separate Studio product for voiceover creation and a pay-as-you-go developer API. It runs on a freemium model: a genuine $0 plan with basic robotic voices, a $29/month Premium plan unlocking 1,000+ natural voices in 60+ languages, and usage-based API pricing billed per character or per minute for voice agents.

Who builds it

Speechify is built by Speechify Inc. Users import or paste text from articles, ebooks, PDFs, Google Docs and other sources into the app or browser extension, pick a voice and playback speed, and listen on desktop or mobile — with a separate Studio interface for recording narrated voiceovers and cloned voices for video and podcast projects.

Core features

  • 1,000+ natural AI voices across 60+ languages on Premium, versus 10 basic voices on Free
  • Listening speeds up to 5x on Premium (1.5x on Free), with Scan & Listen to read physical pages via camera
  • AI Summaries and an AI chat assistant for discussing website or book content
  • Voice cloning: create a personal voice model from a short recording for use in narration
  • Integrations with Google Drive, Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive, plus Voice Typing for faster dictation
  • Separate Speechify API for developers, billed per character for text-to-speech and per minute for full voice agents (STT+LLM+TTS bundled)

Pricing

  • Free: $0/month — 10 basic voices, up to 1.5x speed, core reading features only
  • Premium: $29/month (discounted substantially on annual billing) — 1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, voice cloning, AI summaries/chat, cloud integrations
  • Speechify API — Free: $0/month (50K characters/month TTS, 60 min/month voice agents); Starter: $10/month (1M characters, 120 min); Pro: $99/month (3M characters, 1,200 min); Scale: $499/month (10M characters, 6,000 min); Enterprise: custom. Overage TTS runs $10→$6 per 1M characters and voice agents $0.075→$0.068/minute as you move up tiers
  • Speechify Studio is a separate voiceover/dubbing product with its own pricing tier — check speechify.com for current Studio rates
  • Prices can change — check speechify.com/pricing and speechify.ai/pricing for current figures

Who it's for

Students, professionals with reading difficulties or dyslexia, and anyone who wants to consume text hands-free fit well on Free for light use, upgrading to Premium once they need natural voices, higher speeds or voice cloning. Content creators making voiceovers or dubbed video should look at Speechify Studio rather than the reader app. Developers embedding text-to-speech or voice agents into their own software should use the separate, usage-based Speechify API instead of a consumer subscription.

Frequently asked questions

What does Speechify cost?

Speechify's consumer app costs $0/month on Free (10 basic voices) or $29/month on Premium (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages), with substantial discounts advertised for annual billing. Its separate developer API is usage-based, starting free (50K characters/month) and scaling through Starter ($10/month), Pro ($99/month) and Scale ($499/month) tiers billed per character and per minute. Check speechify.com/pricing and speechify.ai/pricing directly, since exact rates and included allowances can change.

Is Speechify free?

Yes, Speechify has a genuine $0 Free plan that includes 10 voices (described by Speechify as more robotic-sounding), reading speeds up to 1.5x, and core text-to-speech reading. It doesn't unlock the natural-sounding voice library, 5x speeds, voice cloning or AI summaries — those require the $29/month Premium plan. The developer API separately has its own free tier capped at 50,000 characters of text-to-speech per month.

What languages and voices does Speechify support?

Speechify's Premium plan offers 1,000+ natural-sounding AI voices across 60+ languages, while the Free plan is limited to 10 more basic-sounding voices. Voice and language availability can vary by platform (web, iOS, Android, browser extension), so the exact voice list visible depends on where you're using Speechify.

Does Speechify support voice cloning?

Yes — Speechify's Premium plan and its separate Studio product both include voice cloning, letting you record a short sample (as little as 20-30 seconds) to generate a personal AI voice model for narration and voiceovers. This is included as part of the $29/month Premium subscription rather than sold as a standalone add-on. Studio's voice cloning is aimed specifically at creators building podcast, video or e-learning voiceovers.

Does Speechify have an API?

Yes, Speechify offers a separate usage-based developer API (Speechify API / speechify.ai) distinct from the consumer reading app, covering text-to-speech (billed per character) and full voice agents bundling speech-to-text, an LLM and text-to-speech (billed per minute). Pricing runs from a free tier (50K characters/month) through Starter, Pro and Scale plans up to $499/month, plus custom Enterprise pricing. This API is intended for building voice features into other products, not for personal reading.

Speechify vs Typecast — what's the difference?

Speechify is primarily a reading/listening app (turning your existing text, PDFs and books into audio) with a Studio add-on for voiceovers, priced at a flat $29/month for its full voice library. Typecast is built the other way around — a voice-actor-style TTS studio for producing scripted voiceovers and dubbing from scratch, with 500+ voices across 37 languages and voice cloning starting on its $32.9/month Pro plan. If you mainly want to listen to text you already have, Speechify fits better; if you're producing narrated video, e-learning or ad voiceovers from a script, Typecast is the closer match.