Speechify vs Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write

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Speechify

Category: Text to Speech

Industries: Students, Professionals, Teachers & Professors, Legal, Edtech, Publishers, Aeronautics

Pricing

Free Trial

$139 /year

Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write

Category: Text to Speech

Industries: Software Development

Pricing

Guide Price: Annual cost per student

Group

$12 K-12 District

$1.80 Higher Ed

Individual

$150

Per year

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Speechify is the #1 audio reader in the world. Get through books, docs, articles, PDFs, email – anything you read – faster.

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"Speechify is absolutely brilliant. Growing up with dyslexia this would have made a big difference. I’m so glad to have it today."

Sir Richard Branson

Most popular feedback for Speechify

I’ve always been so frustrated with my dyslexia. It just gets in the way and slows me down. This app is a huge help in getting past the barriers that my dyslexia throws at me. I just wish I could pay monthly for the app. The annual chunk is at much for me to do all at once.

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About Speechify

Read aloud any google doc, PDF, webpage, or book with text into speech (TTS). Natural sounding voices in 30+ languages & 130 voices. Text to speech from Speechify lets you listen to docs, articles, PDFs, email, and various other formats — anything you read. It’s one of the fastest growing voice generator extensions in the Chrome store. Make Google Chrome read aloud everything with this text to speech extension on your laptop or desktop. Our speech synthesis TTS technology is trusted by millions of happy users who listen in various languages and accents in the most natural sounding speech.   Our users have listened to 6.5 billion words. How Speechify works Speechify scans text in your browser and in real time, converts it to the most human voice with natural sounding inflection. You can change the voice and accent and slow down or increase the reading speed easily. Works beautifully with Gmail, Google docs, Word docs, PDFs, Twitter, Wikipedia entries, blogs, news publications, and every web page you visit. It’s perfect for school, work, e-learning, learning a second language, and casual reading. Additionally, you can also take a picture of any text and import it into the app for it to be read aloud with cutting-edge OCR functionality. 30+ languages with high quality natural sounding voices Speechify supports over 30 languages and accents. Speechify speech technology converts most languages into native sounding voices in real time. See the languages we support. Enjoy speech output in Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, & Ukrainian. Speechify has 130+ voices to choose from across various languages. Find the one that you love. Some voices are very recognizable. Mr. President for instance or even the officially licensed Gwyneth Paltrow voice is one of our users’ favorite.

Most popular feedback for Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write

Read&Write is part of our district-wide dynamic plan - for one UDL tool that supports all of our students. We also focused on leveraging Read&Write to increase our 1:1 participation especially since we were using more digital resources.

Stacey Banks

About Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write

Here at IDA, we are passionate about accessibility! We are using a solution from Texthelp Inc. called ReachDeck to help make our websites more accessible. Behind the scenes, our staff use the ReachDeck Auditor to run accessibility scans of our websites to provide the best possible experience for all our website visitors. This also helps us stay compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) from the World Wide Web Consortia (W3C). For our website visitors, we’ve added the ReachDeck Toolbar that adds text to speech read aloud, whole page translation into over 100 languages and other reading support tools to all of our websites. This allows us to welcome and support visitors with various reading and language differences, such as dyslexia, low literacy, English as a second language, and those with mild visual impairments. ReachDeck Toolbar includes: Text-to-speech read aloud with synchronous highlighting to enhance reading engagement and comprehension. Translate web pages into over 100 languages with read aloud in around 40 languages. Picture Dictionary defines a word using a picture. MP3 generator converts selected text to audio files for offline listening. Screen Masking lets you increase focus on an area of the screen, while shading the rest to reduce distraction. On-screen text magnifier helps users with mild visual impairments by reading aloud text in a larger size. Web page simplifier shows just the text from the page view by removing ads, images, and other distractions. Customize the settings for you needs and preferences.

Speechify reviews

Speechify is absolutely brilliant. Growing up with dyslexia this would have made a big difference. I’m so glad to have it today.

- Sir Richard Branson

Great For People With ADHD I recently started using this app and can already see a huge difference in my productivity. It helps me so much with my homework and I’m able to focus a lot easier, if you’re a person that prefers to be read to or can’t focus by yourself this app is for you!

- Zini_

Speechify an awesome App! Speechify is awesome! I can be so much more productive! I am recommending it to a friend who has problems with her eye sight.

- Bankerbaker

Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write reviews

We know that it takes on average 3 years for a person to disclose that they have a neurodiverse condition. The number of neurodivergent colleagues we have is higher than we think. That’s why we’ve made Read&Write available to every single colleague.

- Neil Eustice - Accessibility manager (Enterprise Wide Technology Group)

We decided early on that we wanted to make Read&Write available to everyone. It’s available for download anonymously from our internal software library. And that’s really important: staff can ‘self-serve’ without any kind of stigma or embarrassment if they don’t want to be identified as having additional literacy needs.

- Tony Antoniou Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Providing Read&Write shows that we’re willing to invest in the best support that’s available...it demonstrates that we really do invest in our staff and care about their wellbeing.

- Manal Sadik - Service Manager Language and Accessible support and Equality Advisor

Pros & cons

Speechify

Pros
30+ natural, human-like voices
15+ exclusive languages
5x faster listening speeds
Advanced highlighting, notetaking, and importing tools

Reachdeck(formerly Browsealoud)- Read and Write

Pros
Text-to-speech
Audio Maker:
Talk&Type
Cons
Quite robotic
A little bit Slow in reading text
Clean up the page for easier reading and printing

What is Speechify?

Speechify is one of the most popular audio tools in the world. Our Google Chrome extension, web app, iOS app, and Android app help anyone listen to content at any speed they want. You can also listen to content in over 30 different voices or languages.

How can Speechify turn anything into an audiobook?

Speechify provides anyone with an audio play button that they can add on top of their content to turn it into an audiobook. With the Speechify app on iOS and Android, anyone can take this information on the go.

Learn more about text to speech online, for iOS, Mac, Android, and Chrome Extension.

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