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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Speechify, the most popular app in the world to have anything read out loud to you, wins the 2025 Apple Design Award for Inclusivity in lead up to WWDC.
Apple calls Speechify “a critical resource that helps people live their lives” ahead of its WWDC keynote. (Apple Announcement)
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA – June 3, 2025 – Apple has named Speechify, the world’s most used text to speech app, as the 2025 Apple Design Award winner, recognizing Speechify for outstanding innovation in accessibility, user experience, and design ahead of this year’s highly anticipated Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
In naming Speechify the annual design award winner, Apple wrote: “With hundreds of voices and more than 50 available languages, Speechify turns any written text into audio - everything from websites, documents, scans, PDFs, and more.
“The app offers an approachable UI with a variety of accessibility features - Dynamic Type and VoiceOver among them - that make it an instantly helpful tool for everyone: students, professionals, and leisure readers, as well as auditory learners and people with low vision. The design team clearly worked to reduce cognitive load all throughout the app too. Speechify is more than a great app; it's a critical resource that helps people live their lives.”
Speechify’s Founder & CEO, Cliff Weitzman, built the first version of Speechify himself to survive class readings and overcome his own dyslexia in college. Today, Speechify users listen to billions of words each week.
“This recognition from Apple means the world to us,” said Weitzman. “Over a billion people on this planet have dyslexia, ADHD, or another learning difference. Our mission is to make sure reading is never a barrier to learning – no matter who you are, where you live, or how you learn.”
Speechify will officially be accepting the award on the WWDC Main Stage just before Apple’s 2025 State of the Union address on Monday, June 9th at 1pm PT.
About Speechify: Speechify is the most used accessibility and productivity app in the world for anyone to have anything read out loud to them, including books, websites, PDFs, emails, school assignments, contracts, docs, etc. Speechify’s CEO & Founder, Cliff Weitzman, first launched Speechify’s text to speech app to overcome his own dyslexia as a student at Brown University.
To download Speechify on iOS or iPad: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/speechify-text-to-speech/id1209815023
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