Speechify is excited to welcome Dylan Field, founder and CEO of Figma, as an investor.
Design has always been foundational to how Speechify approaches product development, and the team has been longtime users of Figma. Dylan’s involvement carries special significance, as he supported Speechify in its earliest days by offering guidance on hiring and early-stage company building.
A Shared Vision for Accessible Creation
Dylan Field founded Figma, the browser-based, real-time collaborative design platform built on the belief that creative tools should be accessible, online, and shared by default. From its earliest days, Figma challenged the idea that design belonged only to specialists, instead inviting designers, engineers, writers, and product teams to work together in a single, collaborative space.
Figma’s approach transformed how products are built, enabling teams at organizations such as Airbnb, Microsoft, Netflix, Stripe, GitHub, and The New York Times to brainstorm, design, and ship together. By bringing design into the browser and making collaboration central, Figma helped lower the barrier to participation and expanded who could meaningfully contribute to the creative process.
That philosophy strongly resonates with Speechify’s mission.
Lowering the Barrier to Creation with Voice and AI
A core idea that Dylan Field has long championed is that technology and AI can dramatically reduce the friction between ideas and execution. By lowering barriers and removing the need for specialized tools, more people can participate in creative work that was once limited to experts.
That principle closely aligns with how Speechify has evolved. Over the past several months, Speechify has grown into a major platform for podcast creation and consumption, enabling users to turn text, documents, articles, and notes into audio directly within the app. Each month, hundreds of thousands of podcasts are created on Speechify and shared across classrooms, group chats, and social platforms.
These podcasts are not produced by professional studios. They are created by students, professionals, and everyday users who use Speechify to convert written material into audio they can listen to while studying, commuting, or working. No recording equipment, editing software, or production experience is required.
Speechify’s Voice Typing Dictation features further reduce friction by allowing users to speak naturally while drafting essays, notes, or outlines, which can then be transformed into audio. This makes it easier to move from spoken ideas to written content to finished audio without switching tools.
Just as Figma demonstrated that design is not limited to designers, advances in voice and AI are making audio creation accessible to a much broader audience. Speechify continues to build tools that support this shift by combining reading, writing, dictation, and podcast creation into a single voice-first platform.
Design, Voice, and the Future of Creative Tools
Speechify brings together text to speech, podcast creation, voice typing, dictation and a Voice AI Assistant to help people read, write, listen, and create more naturally across their daily workflows. Thoughtful design plays a central role in making these tools feel intuitive, flexible, and accessible to a broad audience.
Dylan Field’s perspective on collaboration, accessibility, and creative empowerment closely aligns with Speechify’s direction as voice and AI reshape how people communicate and create.
Speechify is grateful for Dylan’s continued inspiration, early guidance, and support as the platform continues to expand what’s possible when powerful tools are built for everyone.