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May 1, 2025

Tap, Listen, Finish: The Study Hack That Triples Reading Speed Overnight

Speechify Changed My Life

Do you feel buried under a mountain of notes, textbooks, and assignments? You’ve been cramming all day and night, but somehow, the material just isn't sticking. You're exhausted, overwhelmed, and starting to doubt your chances of making it through. That’s where Speechify can save the day. 

Simply download the app, scan your study materials, and press play. Instead of staring at pages of text that just blur together, you can listen to your study guides, notes, books, and more—on your way to class, while you're doing laundry, or even as you relax in your bed.

You’ll not only get caught up in no time, but you’ll have retained more than you ever thought possible. Whether it's complex theories or complicated equations, listening to your material helps you grasp everything in a whole new way. No more pulling all-nighters or staring at your books in frustration. With Speechify, you can turn your downtime into valuable study time and ace your exams.

Why you’ll Upgrade—and Never Look Back

Speechify’s free tier is solid, but Speechify Premium straps a rocket to your routine. Instantly you can:

  • Scan and hear any printed text: Point your phone at a textbook; Speechify’s OCR turns ink into audio before the traffic light turns green.
  • Blast through material at up to 5× speed: Find your sweet spot—around 350 wpm is fast enough to shave hours off weekly reading and slow enough to lock in every concept.
  • Flip a switch for AI summaries: Perfect for pre-lecture refreshers or lightning-quick discussion-board replies.
  • Clone your own voice: Hear yourself recite constitutional law—oddly motivating and brilliant for memorization.
  • Choose from 1000+ high-quality voices: Even Snoop Dogg can narrate macroeconomics.
  • Jump between 60+ languages: Listen in Spanish on your morning run to practice your pronunciation and switch back to English for afternoon research.

Within a month your Sunday nights—once swallowed by last-minute readings—open up for actual rest. Quiz scores tick up, eye strain fades, and classmates may wonder why you look so … awake.

How Premium Turns Every Moment into Study Time

Breakfast becomes podcast-style email catch-up. Gym sessions evolve into audiobook-length review blocks. That half-hour gap between lab and lecture morphs into an AI-summary sprint. Speechify lives everywhere—desktop, Chrome, iOS, Android—syncing your place no matter which device is in hand.

The Gradehacker Seal of Approval

Gradehacker vets every productivity hack before recommending it to non-traditional students, and Speechify Premium sits at the top of the must-have list. The interface is bright and simple, the features genuinely useful, and the annual price (about one used textbook) pays for itself in reclaimed hours.

Ready to Supercharge your Study Time?

If you’re an auditory learner, a schedule-juggling night owl, or simply someone who’d rather hear Kierkegaard while cooking dinner than squint at a PDF until midnight, give Speechify a spin. Start with the free tier—then, when you realize how much time you’re saving, tap “Upgrade” and watch your workload melt.

LIMITED-TIME STUDENT OFFER: Get Speechify Premium 100% free to try out for 7 days. 

Press play, close your eyes, and let your reading list read itself.