Speechify vs Voice Aloud
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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 BransonI’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.
Bugandbutton
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.
I am a student, and anyone who has taken a class at USC will tell you that the amount of reading per class is Insane. Aside from the stacks of books per class, there are just as manny article readings. If it were not for this app reading to me during my commute, or while I am working, I do not think I would be caught up on my reading. And my midterm, which I got a perfect score on, was based 90% on reading and about 10% on lecture. I had the free version and it works good. The ads are on a small strip at the bottom, and don't interfere with the reader at all. Yet I am so grateful for my A+ that I upgraded just now to the paid version to support the people who made it. I have not used the paid version yet, but I already know it's worth every penny. I did take away one star became on articles (usually PDF's) that have one paragraph on the right side of the page, and another on the left, the reader will read from left to right, top to bottom. Although there is a gap between the two it will read the first line of each paragraph as one. As one can imagine, this distorts the flow and makes no sense. Yet, While it's not perfect, it's better that anything else I have ran into.
Oscar Arciga
You can read on screen or listen to the app read aloud web pages, news stories, lengthy emails, TXT, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, OpenOffice documents, EPUB, MOBI, PRC, AZW, and FB2 ebooks, and more. It is an HTML reader, a document reader, and an ebook reader all rolled into one, and it allows you to read on the screen or listen to the text if your eyes are bothering you, they are malfunctioning, or you are otherwise occupied.
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
This is a really good app that reads words allowed. I’m using the application to read PDF books. It is working very well. It does a good job of reading books that may have two columns on one page with tables, charts and graphs. It does a good job of reading the left column of words first and then the right column of words. It will read the charts and graphs also, so if you don’t want that read, all you have to do is press on the next section you want read. Its a life saver. Also, it works in multi task mode, so you can have PDF reader pulled up, highlighting within your PDF file and making notes while the app is reading to you (e.g. left side of screen has the voice app reading and the right side has the actual PDF book open) One other application I tried would not allow this, which was odd. For only about $8, I say this application is a bargain. I’ve already used the application to read hours of text to me. It is definitely saving me some eye strain. Word pronunciation is pretty decent, but I would follow along as the text reads to you, just Incase the reader pronounces some words awkwardly. Overall, a really good application.
- DesfluraneGas
Needs some attention, but good Love the one time purchase, absolutely worth it as a college student. The only problem I have with it is when it adds extra characters to the start of each page. Most of the time, whenever the page is turned, the program will add and read aloud “a” and/or “-“ two to four times before starting on what the page actually says. As far as I can tell, there isn’t a way to edit this out of the page, though you are able to view the extra “a”s and “-“s in the contents menu of your book. If you’re anything like the average reader, this makes it kinda hard to follow the meaning of the sentence across the page turn when there’s a four to five second break with the voice repeating “a a hyphen hyphen a hyphen.” If you don’t mind it though, it’s a great app and much closer to five stars.
- MoonieMeep
Overall decent. Couple of basic quality of life changes. The rate needs to increase in increments of .1 not.5. I don’t know who could ever understand something at a rate of 5. Second the Web reader needs two basic features. Zoom and search text. Zoom for the oddly small font and search text for long documents so that you don’t have to search manually when telling it to play from here. Otherwise I’m quite pleased it loads the body content quite well and plays it just fine.
- crossfire92
Pros |
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30+ natural, human-like voices |
15+ exclusive languages |
5x faster listening speeds |
Advanced highlighting, notetaking, and importing tools |
Pros |
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It does a good job of reading books that may have two columns on one page with tables, charts and graphs |
It loads the body content quite well and plays it just fine |
Word pronunciation is pretty decent |
Cons |
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Layout and navigation need to be simpler and more descriptive, with lesser icons and more font |
The Kindle app cannot open a lot of files, so what the @voice app does is convert documents and websites into a format that the Kindle can read aloud |
Has a mechanical "accent," mispronounces or misreads the occasional word, tends to add extra pauses, and occasionally reads punctuation marks instead of obeying them (e.g, "ehyphenmail") |
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.
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