Speechify – Text to Speech

What the Speechify text to speech app is for

Speechify is a text to speech reader and voice assistant for Android, listed under Tools. It is aimed at people who take in a lot of written material and would rather hear it than read it.

The listing offers more than 1,000 voices across 60+ languages, and names celebrity voices including Gwyneth Paltrow and Snoop Dogg. The summary also mentions AI podcasts.

Listening to PDFs, documents and web pages

The main use is reading aloud. The listing says it works with documents, PDFs, emails and websites, and with anything else on screen that contains text.

Playback can be sped up to 4.5x, which the listing gives as 900 words per minute. The developer says the voices stay natural-sounding at high speed.

Reading text from photos and screenshots

You can take a photo of printed text, or capture a screenshot, and the app reads that text aloud. This covers material that is not already in a digital file.

Dictating into any app with the Voice Keyboard

The Voice Keyboard works in any app that has a text field. You tap a floating Speechify bubble, speak, and the words are inserted into the field you are using.

This is a way to write by voice in messaging, email or notes apps without switching to a separate dictation tool.

Asking the voice assistant about your reading

The Voice AI Assistant answers spoken or typed questions about the documents and on-screen content it can see. The listing's examples are asking for the main takeaways of a text or being quizzed on an essay.

The listing describes the assistant as a reader, assistant and tutor combined in one feature.