Speechify Text to Speech Audio Reviews

by NickyAnaisRossoS

I am a nurse practitioner student and I downloaded SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and paid for a subscription to help me be more efficient with my multiple reading assignments each week. I saw that SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio was supposed to help with such a thing so I tried it. Unfortunately, in order to help with etextbook readings you have to scan the individual pages into SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio , which is incredibly time consuming especially if you are studying medicine or nursing. The time it takes to scan multiple pages of a etextbook (or a regular textbook) I could have just sat down and read it like I normally do. I wanted to give SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio a try anyway, so I scanned/took screenshots of three pages of my etextbook. When the program started to read it to me it switched voices AND languages (from English to Spanish) FIVE times on ONE page. How incredibly distracting! Not to mention that the website is buggy as well. I couldn’t get the payment dashboard to load to cancel my subscription. Thankfully, I used PayPal to subscribe and was able to cancel through them. I didn’t need the free trial to decide if SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio was right for me. I downloaded SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio , signed up for the trial, gave it a try, then quickly canceled my subscription and deleted SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio , all within one hour. That’s an hour I could have spent actually reading the material or helping a patient. Save yourself the time and frustration. Skip SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio.

by Didix 101

I’m trying to use SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio to help my reading speed and be able to multi task but every few minutes I listen to the audio it suddenly stops and puts up an ad advertising “try premium for free” speechify premium subscription plan. This happens consistently as I’m trying to listen to the audio and I have to manually close the ad in order to resume the reading. I should not have to deal with my audio CONSTANTLY STOPPING just to have SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio slap me in the face with “TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE, TRY PREMIUM FOR FREE!!!!!” Over and over and over and over again. It severely increases the time it takes me to get through a reading because I have to keep resuming the audio every time. For an app that preaches to help “save time reading” it does a horrible job when it constantly stops you. Having that “free premium subscription” trial shoved down my throat does not come off as a well meaning app. It feels more like someone stopping you on the street and yelling at you to give them your money. It makes using SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio more of a hassle than a time saver. If any of my friends asked me about speechify and if they should try SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio for free I would tell them they should look for something else as SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio will constantly badger them for paying for a subscription. Horrible app. STOP HAVING THE PREMIUM TRIAL AD STOP THE AUDIO. It’s beyond annoying

by Rsnbl

The text recognition needs a lot of work, I imported a book of which all of the pages are formatted into 2 columns, SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio registers each new line as a new sentence, and for words that continue on the following line, SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio registers those as two separate words. When there's actually a new sentence SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio would often fail to register that a new sentence has started, but instead continues to read the passage at a constant pace from before the new sentence has started, making comprehension difficult. If you plan on listening to SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio while you're doing other activities, you can forget about that, you'll have to be reading your text while you're listening to understand. This isn't an issue with me not paying for the premium service, this is an error at the very fundamental level of the software. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio provides voice options such as Arnold Schwarzenegger & Gwyneth Paltrow, which are some fun features, but they're offset by the subpar text recognition. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio also mispronounces simples words like "creativity" as creativi-tie. The skip forward/backwards button doesn't work properly. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio does not provide the option to import book from the files app, instead the document must be uploaded into a cloud storage platform to be accessed from SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio . SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio needs a lot of work, do not pay for this unless you don't mind being ripped off.

by DanGallo

UPDATE: March 2022– I can’t emphasize enough — don’t waste your money on SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. They still haven’t figured out basic things like “Mr.” or “Dr.” is not the end of a sentence. They need to spend less money on ads and actually bring their product up to speed with basic technology. It’s better than nothing— but not by much!

ORIGINAL REVIEW
SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio seems like it was rushed to launch with the technology and features not ready for prime time. I want to like this so much. And if you’re driving and need to hear an article, it’s better than nothing. But the best voices sound extremely computer generated. And the better sounding voices (there’s one that sounds a lot like David Attenborough) just don’t work well. Pauses where there shouldn’t be pauses. Mispronunciation of extremely common words. (It calls Fauci “fau-sy…like how do you not update your software to recognize insanely common proper names?) And again, I cannot overstate how impossible it is to comprehend an article when the AI reader puts random pauses in places where there are no grammatical pauses. If you need something to read you an article in a punchcard fine. But it’s not worth the money just yet. They need to work out the technology before justifying this kind of price. Maybe use some of the money you’re paying for slick advertisements and use it to develop this product more. Because right now, you’re overselling it.

by TopangaTango

New review: I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW EXPENSIVE IT IS for a yearly plan. If it was for life, maybe it would be worth it. To not even change the rate to be faster than 1.1 without paying over a hundred bucks annually hurts my soul. I’m a student and it’s a travesty that they don’t have some type of educational discount or understanding. Rude and avaricious.

Old review:
I absolutely love SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. I’m very slow and ADD when I read, but reading along with SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio ’s voice helps so much. I feel like I can actually read long articles and understand them in a normal amount of time. It’s also great when I’m getting ready and unable to read traditionally, as it helps to give a refresher from whatever text to comprehend it better. For school, it has been great to submit my papers and find inconsistencies bc of how it sounds here compared with my own voice. I love the functionality, too. It’s so handy how you can submit text or pull straight from the internet, and the fact that it’s on the “share” menu on my phone is incredibly convenient. I accidentally purchased the free trial and then was charged the full year amount for the premium version of SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio , and when I reached out to their customer service they were so understanding and gave me a refund right away. I do wish the premium wasn’t so expensive for the extra voices, but literally everything else about speechify has been more than useful thus far. Highly recommend!!

by Foolishkdjdjdj

This is a really promising application but unfortunately the last several updates have damaged the functionality. Early versions of SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio stored files on your phone and downloading them was lighting fast and when you opened your app later to finish reading your downloaded files they were instantly there for you to read. A few updates ago the application was changed so that files you download now sync with servers in an attempt to allow you to view your files across the Chrome app (this is what the devs explained to me when I pointed out the new updates’ problem), however this syncing requirement means when you open SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio it takes absolutely ages for your files to load, sometimes over an hour. I have not cancelled my premium subscription yet because I know SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio can function better, because it used to prior to the damaging updates. I communicated these concerns to the developers and I’m patiently awaiting the next update to see if this issue is addressed. But since these new updates I’ve had a really hard time using SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and I’ve been searching for a replacement that doesn’t have these issues.

UPDATE: I have cancelled my subscription as SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio experience continues to get worse. My saved files now mostly won’t sync and are thus not accessible usually for about 15 minutes after SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio loads. This server sync delay is unacceptable in a subscription product

by A Happy Co-Writer

I’ve had SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio in the past, I loved how I could just scan pages, as someone with ADHD I find it miserable to read long chapters and liked I could listen to my textbooks as I did other things.
However it’s changed since I re-downloaded it. If you’re using the free version it interrupts SO many times to advertise the paid version, I understand the need to advertise but it’s so pervasive that I can hardly justify the time it saves me because it is so distracting. It made me want to find a new app more than pay for the Speechify subscription. Now however SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio won’t download files I add, it won’t process them, I thought it was because I had about 50 pictures worth of files, however I deleted that version after 3 days of seeing if it was uploading (meanwhile having a good WiFi connection over multiple networks) and it was still at 0%. I retried and did half as many files and it did the same thing, then I tried just one and it still isn’t working. Despite maybe some technical difficulties on SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio ’s end, after all of that I really lost a lot of time and faith in SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio, it’s just not reliable and the “mission statement” of the developer wanting to help others save time and help those with issues reading long passages just doesn’t ring true to my recent experience using it.

by Firecat72

I truly wonder if they are charging this much for SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio strictly because they think students will spend their loan money on something like this, only to have it be crappy and not be able to get their money back. I’m on day 2 of the free trial and I found that I need to sit in front of my computer and follow along with the reading because if I get up and move away from the screen whatever SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio is supposed to be reading will continue on another page and the speech doesn’t continue, it goes to whatever pictures or boxes are on my textbook page that it was reading and starts reading those in basically gibberish because it tries reading the actual pictures: maps and what not. I was sitting here, waiting for the desktop app to open my history book and I got up and went to the door to look outside and the narration started. But when I got closer to the sound, I heard that it was literally just gibberish so I took a video to send to the developers. I couldn’t see where the narrator was supposedly narrating from and couldn’t find it but I heard it saying letters over and over and over again and like erroring out. This is probably happening 50% of the time I try using this program. Considering they want $140 for this, I’m canceling my free trial early in case it charges me before I expect to be charged. Good luck.

by Madelinehaff

I often listen along while reading to provide multi sensory input to improve my reading comprehension and memory, but the long time while editing can be counterproductive at times. Most of the documents I need to read, such as academic papers and textbooks, have multiple columns, text boxes, charts, etc. per page. For this to work correctly on Speechify, I find I must go through each page to edit the columns and mark each text area. This isn’t too bad, but the editing feature can be finicky and hard to line up if you don’t have neat columns for the entire page. There is only one “template” for up to 4 columns, but this doesn’t always align well with whats on the page. Columns and text boxes are doable, but charts not so much yet (but those are usually for visual studying, anyway). Additionally, it will miss spaces frequently and so bunches several words together, causing speechify to spell out the block of text letter by letter instead of interpreting the words. For this reason I often have to edit the text while reading/listening, too, to add the spaces or correct the punctuation. I find SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio helpful for my needs (I have ADHD and autism and am in grad school with tons of heavy duty reading), but it requires a bit too much extra work for the high cost of SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio !

by Joosty16

I love this! I have always thought I have been a bit dyslexic... I can read but I read slower and mess up some words sometimes. I told my parents that I think I have a small case of dyslexia but they always said no. They always said you just need to practice reading more. They were right. Kind of! If I work really hard at it and am in a quiet place with no distractions, I can read a book. I’m not fast. I’m not sure I comprehend everything I should but I can read. I never liked reading until I got into high school. That is when I finished my first chapter book with out anyone reading to me. My dad would always read to me for my “lit circles” or text book assignments. I love him for that! He is one of the reasons I graduated at the top 10 of my class in high school and first two years of college! He never gave up on me and he was always there to help me no matter what I needed help with! He is my hero! Mom too! She was not very good at reading either but she did better at math. I am now attending my 3rd year of college online to become a teacher and I love to read. Speechify will just speed things up for me a bit is all!

Thank you! ❤️

by Manxiepoo

I spent hours comparing text to speech apps, and by far, Speechify has some of the best premium HD voices. I even considered dropping Audible, so that I could pay for an unlimited amount of HD voice listening time; however, while the HD voices are great, they’re not reliable enough for me to consider them as a replacement for Audible just yet. At times, they’re slow to load or glitchy. I wasted a good 200 or so words listening to Gwyneth lisp her way through sentences as if she was lapsing into a different language. I fiddled with her speech rate trying to remedy the problem, but it was to no avail. I had to switch to Michael. Michael read through everything perfectly, but he too had trouble staying on task. Even though I had plenty of of HD listening words left, he would intermittently cut out and be replaced by the British Male speaking voice. With all things considered, this is an app worthy of downloading. It does a respectable job transferring words from pictures—better than most. Sometimes, to my astonishment, it can read my handwriting. It hasn’t crashed, and apart from the HD voices, the standard voices seem quite reliable. I like that I can earn HD words the more I listen, and that there’s enough to stay entertained with in the free version. With a bit more perfecting, Audible might find itself facing the boot in favor of this nifty little app. For now, Audible is safe from the chopping block.

by Njnunun

I am SO grateful there is FINALLY a app that is capable of reading out loud for me! With ADHD, Anxiety, and learning disabilities I struggle with just getting though a page, and I love to collect books and as much information as possible with ALL the good intentions possible to read and grow! I beat myself up for buy all the things I do (reading wise) bc I struggle with getting that time and focus long enough to read. Being a single momma of three kids ages 12,6,&5 and a fur mama of a cat and dog, I am very busy. Being able to hear the information of topics I am super interested in is LIFE CHANGING!
I love my audiobooks! But when wanting to read websites (just finally was able to listen/read about CBT for ADHD on a website by copy and pasting the url! Life changing!), college text books (haven’t tried this feature just yet but I plan to soon) and I am looking forward to being able to have my email read about my kids endless school stuff!

I have been searching for YEARS now for something that could help me and hands down this is what I have needed! Thank you for creating SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. Also keeping SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio’s add on features at a reasonable price! I will be doing the add on for the speed preference and I want to support someone who created something so user friendly and for those like me who want to grow and yet are stuck and struggle with all the personal stuff that keeps us from growing!
Thank you!

by Mika Maiyazu

I always read really slow compared to others and I always tend to read better with someone/something reading it out loud. On SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio though I can just easily take a picture of my book pages and it loads within a minute which is really fast and amazing and I just listen to it. It does mess up on some of the words which is understandable that’s why I’m glad I can just edit the text from what ever it messes up. I love how you can just add folders because I’m separating my book by chapters because that’s easier and to make it a whole lot easier I just add it in a folder with the book title as the folder name. It’s easy to add series also because I can add folders within a folder and I find that absolutely amazing. I’m glad I found SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio so I can actually read better and read more of what I love! I already been suggesting SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio to a lot of people and I only got it yesterday. I love SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio already! I’ve been listening to my book all day while doing some work without buying things like some ebook apps even though they're some things you can buy like translation and voices which I might actually buy soon!

❤️❤️❤️Thank you so much! You’re such a life saver! I’m glad SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio exists!❤️❤️❤️

by GmanGenius

For a long time I’ve been actively looking for a better way to study. Among my strategies is a time consuming, “actually reading aloud” important notes and sometimes whole passages into a handheld voice recorder. Many times, I have to review and replay small sections. I either have to record in small bits to select small sections or rewind and scan through large whole passages guess-timating more or less what I want to review. It can become a tedious process and makes for inefficient study but with SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio I simply select the section I want to replay by touching the screen, along with the playback speed and tone and accent of voice choice. At $12 a month and as an active duty military member, a part time student, and a law abiding citizen trying to keep up with world news the premium for SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio was contemplated for all of 20 seconds. I didn’t want to do it but I’ve made way worst financial decisions in the past. WHY NOT! If you don’t get SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio you will be making a tiny mistake in your life. Also I must mention that there are free aloud readers out there but everything needs an active internet connection. Having the freedom to carry my smartphone and headphones around without being attached to a laptop is worth its weight in gold.

by Mile Hughes

This is most definitely one of the most effective and productive process assisting programs ever created! It’s absolutely incredible! You can increase your ability and triple or quadruple your productivity in a matter of hours and get leaps and bounds ahead of your goals, expectations and colleagues with amazing results and accomplish your tasks in fractions of the time! It’s creators like this that make programs like this out of shear desperation and necessity that are absolutely required by so many that just need that one tiny bit of encouragement that really just doesn’t exist until it’s created like this so that they/we can become successful and surpass even our own wishes, ambitions and dreams which we thought impossible! Thank you for all your pain and suffering! All your hard work and misery! All your ambition and frustration! All your aggravation and accomplishments! All of your failures and triumphs! All your pain and dedication! You are: “ONE IN A MILLION”! This will help so many that have hidden in the dark on the sidelines for so long for fear of discovery! They will now come running out of the shadows to enlighten the world with their light and knowledge to show everyone their strength, ability and capabilities because of you and because of this! Thank you!

by Asdfkcsyilvdtiveyjs

This was my first time using SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio , it can be hard for me to read because of my neuro-divergence and SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio worked wonderfully for me. I tried to read an article that I was really interested in by myself three times and could not get through it. So I search text to speech apps, found this and I just finished the article. I am so thrilled to have read it and I retained the information. Now I am formulating my thoughts on the article and I figured I would come over and rate SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio because it was really wonderful for me!! The narration (or text to speech) was very realistic, it was not super choppy or very “AI- ish”. It pronounced everything very well even things I thought it would mess up ... this article I just read would be a doozy for most text to speech apps and this one BREEZED right through. I LOVE the MULTIPLE playback speeds, as I could change it for an article that I want to pay closer attention too, I can slow it down even more. I also really appreciated the sentence being highlighted and the current word being double highlighted, it really helped me focus!! Cliff really put tremendous thought into SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and it shows. I think I might even pay for the premium sub to get the narrators voice ...I really liked him LOL.

by KKC IL

I just wish I had Speechify when I was a young girl I found out I was dyslexic when I was taking eighth grade over for the second time. They knew I couldn’t comprehend they knew I could read but the problem was I wasn’t retaining it and it was extremely difficult but their practice and wanted to show that I’m not stupid even though I was in special ed classes as well I started reading more and more and more two books at the same time then I got up to three books at the same time finishing them and just expanding my mind today because I was not in school and work you’re on a computer I’ve kind of gone backwards but I’m trying again I’m back in college and 53 years of age to get a bachelors degree not in my first choice and love but it nonetheless it is still business and I look forward to this the only problem I have is the price that needs to come down so that more people can use it because I’m doing the three day trial but I will not be able to afford the price of the whole program if I can get it together I will but anyone that reads this it’s a great app and it does work and for those children that need the help it’s worth of money and it’s worth the money for me I just cannot afford it on a fixed income thank you and God bless.

by Sleekbeans

So helpful with ADHD. It tells you how many minutes it’ll take to read, taking away SO much of the intimidation I get from having to read anything. Pause at any time. It highlights the full sentence it’s on and follows along word-by-word “double highlighted.” It allows for dark mode. Love that for my light sensitivity! Tap the word you want it to start reading at if you’re skipping around. It’ll do exactly what you ask it to do. I wasn’t expecting it to be so good. I scanned two pages of my textbook. It even got the fine print and didn’t skip around to different paragraphs in a dumb way—even though the margins and pictures are designed in an awful way even for a human to read (thanks, dear engineers too cheap or stupid to hire real graphic designers with typography skills). It even read “g/mm^3” as “grams per cubic millimeter,” not “g slash m m carrot 3.” To top it off, the voice isn’t entirely annoying. The best automated voice imo, and believe me I’ve tried a ton. Maybe you can change the voice, but idk bc I just started playing with SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio . Now I’m writing this review when I should be reading my textbook. Anyway, go ahead and download SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio if you’re even on this page considering it—which ofc you are if you’re reading this rn. Good day.

Edit—a few minutes later 🙃: Yes, you can change the voice. There are MANY to choose from! Excited to try them.

by B Clark IPhone 6

I too have dyslexia. And I hated school for this reason. I couldn’t read stuff like my friends. I was always behind. I took so long to do homework because of it I couldn’t go out and play with my friends. I hated it. I cried and fought with my mom a lot. They put me in a special reading class to try to teach me how to turn the letters and words around. I even reverse numbers sometimes. When I was in first grade I had a teacher who would yell at me for not being able to read instead of trying to help me. So my parents held me back and put me in a different school. Where the teacher had seen it before and knew the signs for dyslexia. And I was tested and found out that’s what it was. I appreciate so much you creating SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. I do wish it didn’t cost so much. I understand you have to pay for the development and to keep it up to date. But that is a lot. I did teach myself to read and I do read books. But it does take me a lot longer than everyone else because of the dyslexia. But I do it anyway and even enjoy reading now. When I was a kid you would never see me read. But again thanks for creating an app that helps with that. I just wish the cost was lower I can’t afford that much a year at one time. Or if you had smaller monthly costs too that would be better for someone like me. Thanks again. I will use the free version for now. 👍🏻

by P.Gracie

As a dyslexic college student, drowning in the required readings and endless emails thrust upon pupils I have found myself trying anything and everything to increase my comprehension and reading speed. I simply don’t have time to reread a medical review 500 times as my brain unyieldingly demands! SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio has been a savior to my grades, comprehension, confidence, and has boosted my craving for reading and knowledge! I would recommend this to anyone and everyone! Also, you can put books, yes real actual books you read for entertainment, into SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and create your own audiobooks! SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio hasn’t only helped me in my college life, it has gotten me back to reading again! Love it!!

The only negative thing I would say about SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio is the premium version is EXPENSIVE. I tried it out to get a voice more personable and engaging but I found the cost more than I could justify. I love the premium voices (especially Harry!!) but as a broke college kid I just can’t afford it. Would you maybe consider making a free voice that is a little less monotonous? Maybe y’all could make Harry free? Yes, the latter request is a bit far reaching but it was worth a shot😅. Anyway - love SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and would recommend time and time again!!

by Phoenix1887

Man this used to work well, I used to use it like 1 to 2 years ago before the guy who developed it had it completely re-developed and ruined it by breaking all of the necessary features. Now literally almost nothing works. Almost all articles are blank when you import them, some show up as blank with no text but it reads text. Some failed to import with no explanation. When an article gets added it’s nowhere to be found it should be at the top of the list but even when you sort by date added or most recent it’s nowhere to be found and you can only find it alphabetically. It’s frustrating when apps do this. Never break something that works attempting to give it a facelift. Always make sure that your product and product developers bend to your needs never let them make your app been to their needs compromising its relevancy. I do hope that one day it’s fixed...

by Reedshaver

I tried the free 3-day trial and couldn’t justify paying the subscription. The premium voices require an internet connection; if you’re not able to be on WiFi, being on mobile connection kills the phone battery very quickly.

The monthly subscription limits you to 150,000 words read by the premium voice. After that, it’s back to the annoying, medium-quality robot voice. That limits you to about 2 novels’ worth of reading per month. For my work as a full-time graduate student, that’s not enough; I have to read more than that. And $30/month or ~$90+/year is too much. So it’s all too constricting. There are cheaper options that are just as good won’t kill your battery, like Voice Dream Reader. (The voice won’t sound quite as good, but it’s a one-time-only $15 purchase. Easy and much less expensive.)

Final con: Speechify requires too much user input for it to do what you need it to do. And then it crashes without saving your work. All books have to be meticulously cropped so that SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio won’t read each page header, page number, and footnote. Voice Dream Reader automatically skips headers and page numbers without requiring manual user cropping or a cumbersome burden on internet or battery life. Again, simpler and cheaper.

by Smoochaletta

Okay, so I went ahead and gave it 4 stars. It’s a great app especially for me. I’m taking online classes. Before speechify I was downloading and printing all of my reading. I knocked out 8 articles (20-44 pigs. long) in 4 hours. AND the beauty of it, I’m not confined to sitting for hours at a time while reading. I can take my iPad to the gym and listen/read while on a treadmill or stationary bike. I just have ONE complaint. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio does this weird thing with the letter F. Con7lict, or Beni?it, kly (should be fly) etc. Every time the letter f appears it turns into something else. Except for e7ficient. Go kigure, lol! It does it on my iPhone and iPad. Both devices have current iOS and app updates. If you can fix it it would be great.
Ok that's my first review
New review
Thanks for all of the hard work you've poured into SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. I'm glad I can create an account and see my uploads in my iPhone and Pad. It's getting better. Still does funny things with the letter F. Hey I believe in you guys, you can do it!!

by Rated For Color

Last few updates were excellent. The vastly improve the stability of the program. It no longer crashes the way it used to. I am now much more likely to use it since I know it will actually work.

There is still some stuff that I wish would happen. First, I still wish we could choose from that are for iOS voices, but the voices on Speechify are pretty good.

Second, SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio still sometimes has trouble tracking the highlighting in the words. One suggestion about highlighting that I have is to not have the screen continually move, but rather have the highlights move and then when they get to the bottom allowing screen to refresh to the top of the page. Having the Chi like constantly move makes it harder for me to focus on what I am reading.

Third, I may have missed it but I don’t know how to change my phone settings or how far I am zoomed in, which I would very much like.

Lastly, this is more of a personal thing, but I would really like to have compatibility with Workflow or ifttt, so I can do things like mass import from Pocket or automatically update from Pocket because they’re text formatting is always going to be the best.

Thanks for a fantastic update I really really appreciate it. This is by far the best iteration so far

by Mason Hawk

I use txt readers as a way of proof reading my writings. This worked well for that and is something I just started trying. But then I got to a scene I had written that stuck in my memory. When the reader got to that point it had rewritten my work! I double checked everything and soon found another spot it had done this. The odd thing is it did it in a way that made sense, not choppy. It also did it in a way that I had never put to paper meaning it didn’t find some old version of the txt (pdf in this case). At the start it says “Create” and I checked the txt there, it was as I had written it, odd. I am having it read something right around 200 pages and this is the first time this reader broke the txt up into two files when doing the create. This I will fix by keeping parts to be read under 100 pages. Just an FYI for future updates.

by Tedador The Evil

This has the best natural voice of the text to speech apps I’ve tried. However, there are a few things that are keeping me from giving it 5 stars...

1. There’s no landscape mode. I solely need a text to speech app for the novel I’m writing to help me catch mistakes and makes sure the text flows. I have an iPad Pro with a apple keyboard, which means I can only have my iPad set up in landscape. Since I switch back and forth between my novel and SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio to make changes as needed, it’s not ideal to see the words sideways on SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio.

2. The other Text to Speech app I have lets you do split screen. This means I can have my novel and SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio side by side for quick reference and and making instant changes. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio doesn’t have split screen. Although it does allow the other app to float, it’s much too small for me to work on my novel.

by Pdavidow

I’ve always loved audio books because they make doing tedious work go by faster, but I couldn’t always afford them and some of the books I wanted didn’t have an audio version. With SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio I’ve been able to import books and listen to them for free! The HD voice feature is really mind blowing in how real the voice sounds, and while I’m sad that it only allows 500 words, I understand why it’s limited. The people who worked on SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio must’ve worms so hard to create the HD voice. I’m also excited in the prospect of the subscription to hear more of the HD voice! Also the library format is amazing and very organized. I wish I could go on and on with how amazing SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio is!!!

by Marta206

If you’re like me you hate reading college textbooks. I was looking for a way to get through 90 pages of a textbook without falling asleep. I found SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio and I’m able to take a picture of my textbook and it will read it aloud for me. I have a really hard time concentrating. I follow along in my book and listen to Speechify I love SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio it’s helped me listen to textbooks while cooking dinner and driving. read it for me. I sometimes take pictures of the entire chapter and listen to it in the car on my way to school or work. I’m able to listen to chapters in between classes on my headphones it makes it so much easier for me I wish I had found this out Years ago. I share with everybody how great it is

by Charles.Melody

I’m very pleased with the implementation of the Speechify app. The architecture is very user friendly and easy to us. The developer’s goal was to develop an app to be used by those who experience difficulty in reading the printed word and I have to believe it is a benefit in that situation.

My aim was to find an app that I could use while I perform my daily walking exercise. I listen to short stories published on the Internet by literary Masters as well as up-and-coming authors. I find that Speechify fills that need. When I listen to podcasts and book while driving, I will stay in the car after arriving at my destinations and continue to listen to the remainder of the chapter. Speechify fills that role in my walks as well. I find myself continuing to walk while I listen to the remaining text. What more could ask for?

by PhD-mom

I am a PhD student, an administrator at an Higher Education Institution and a mom of two boy ages 6 and 7, needless to say there aren’t enough hours in a day for me to clear off things on my constantly overflowing todo list. SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio literally saved me, now I can listen to my readings while I drive, clean the house, fold the laundry and cook! I stop here and there to take notes and keep detailed annotated bibliographies of what I have read to use in future papers and research projects. But without SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio either my family or my studies would suffer. I also love all the improvements they’ve made making it easier to upload readings etc. I shared SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio with everyone in my PhD cohort and will continue to share it with students and colleagues.

by Horse N' A Dog

I’ve followed Speechify from it’s inception and SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio then was great, but now it keeps getting better and better. The way SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio can retrieve web pages, PDF’s is amazing. The layout of the retrieved article allows for personal choice and style of content through Speechify’s amazing set of editing tools. And, then the voices on speechify are the best natural sounding voices I’ve heard from the rest. Thumbs up for the easy to set playback controls. And the volume and speed are so easy to manage that I change speeds throughout my articles or books with ease. Looking forward to future updates. I won’t be surprised if soon even the automated will be automated. One master chip runs them all. So don’t go for all the rest when the Master Chip is Speechify. Thanks Speechify!

by Kat00bruno

I am dyslexic and have ADD, I have looked all over the web trying to find a text to speech application with no luck, until SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio. The creators story was extremely relatable, I had nearly the exact same thing happened to me all throughout school. Sadly, I wasn’t diagnosed until my Junior year of high school, which made getting the help I needed really challenging. I had to fight to get into any class I wanted to and reading the books I was given was always hard and I often didn’t read them because it was so challenging. I am so grateful someone that went through the same thing that I did, made an app that allows me to read my college books without frustration. Would highly recommend SpeechifyTexttoSpeechAudio to anyone who struggles with reading!

by Dildhejwka

Cliff! You are amazing and this is a fantastic app! Great design! I laughed at the story about circle time reading but I would , not kidding , do the same thing! And popcorn reading in high school, I couldn’t even add up the hours I’ve spent in school bathrooms. I too learned that have add and dyslexia at about 12 years old? I’m 33 now, so NO ONE knew what it was or anything about it, no no it was when the thought you “reverse your letters “ or something. Anyway, it’s so applied your self so well in school!! I did the opposite and honed other skills , like getting people to write my papers for me while planned extra curricular high school “activity's” , no College but did go one to building and selling 2 businesses buy the age of 31 and now I AM going to get my degree! A fantastic art university, so I am using this for my text books. Thank you for making this!! Good luck with you book, undoubtedly it will be a success! If I can help in anyway please let me know!!
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- katie

by EmiLyric

I’m a 24 year old student with a recent and rather intense anxiety diagnosis. A common yet seldom talked about side effect of a major anxiety disorder is an inability to focus. I find my mind wandering to one of the other 1000 things it’s worried about, and I can sit for hours, entire days in front of a textbook, absorbing nothing. It’s the 3rd week of school now and I just found Speechify on a random, desperate search for helpful tools as my reading load piled up behind me, becoming a boogeyman in my closet. I’ve only used it for one article so far, but already I can remember more from that article than I ever could before reading things myself, and above all things, what would’ve been 2 hours of unfocused procrastination before 2 hours of choppy, interrupted reading turned into 30 minutes, while waiting in the cafeteria for my dinner. I’m actually a little teary eyed writing this. I thought there was something so wrong with me, I was starting to think I should cut my education short at an AA and walk away, before I flunked out. But now there’s this. And I couldn’t be more grateful for it.

by Rpd444

I work in a job that requires voluminous amounts of reading and writing. The iOS text-to-speech function was fine, but I felt that it was a bit clunky at times. Searching for an alternative, I found Speechify and began using it months ago. It is an extremely effective and easy-to-use app. It’s controls are elegant and easy to understand and it seems to work seamlessly via the share feature on Safari and Chrome. If you find yourself having to read a lot for your job, or just for fun, I highly recommend giving your eyes a rest and letting Speechify do some of the heavy lifting once in a while. You won’t regret it.