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Speechify

A text-to-speech app that reads documents, articles, and books aloud, and also offers an AI voice-over API.

AI voice and text to speech

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Visit Speechify (the official site)

Main use cases

  1. Add narration to an app
  2. Generate a podcast-style voice
  3. Clone a specific voice

Ranked in the order the vendor's pages put them.

Alternatives to Speechify

  1. Google Cloud Text-to-SpeechSubstitute
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    Speechify states speech to text, voice consent verification and consumer reading app; Google Cloud Text-to-Speech's pages do not say. Google Cloud Text-to-Speech states phone or telephony integration; Speechify's pages do not say. Speechify lists web, macos, windows and 3 more; Google Cloud Text-to-Speech's pages do not say.

  2. Amazon PollyPartial overlap
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    Speechify states voice cloning, speech to text, voice consent verification and 1 more; Amazon Polly's pages do not say. Amazon Polly states phone or telephony integration; Speechify's pages do not say. Speechify lists web, macos, windows and 3 more; Amazon Polly's pages do not say.

  3. ElevenLabsPartial overlap
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    Speechify states SSML or markup control, voice consent verification and consumer reading app; ElevenLabs' pages do not say. ElevenLabs states video dubbing, phone or telephony integration and self-hosted or on-device deployment; Speechify's pages do not say. Speechify lists macos, windows, ios and 2 more; ElevenLabs's pages do not say.

Speechify next to its top 3 alternatives

Each cell is what the vendor's own pages state. Unknown means the pages do not say, which is not the same as no. Where a no rests on a figure, the cell shows the figure.

FeatureSpeechifyGoogle Cloud Text-to-SpeechAmazon PollyElevenLabs
Text-to-speech APIYes2Yes10Yes12Yes14
Voice cloningYes2Yes10UnknownYes15
Pre-built voice libraryYes1Yes10Yes13Yes15
Multilingual voicesYes1Yes10Yes13Yes15
Emotion or style controlYes2Yes10Yes12Yes15
Real-time streaming outputYes2Yes10Yes12Yes15
Speech to textYes1UnknownUnknownYes15
Video dubbingUnknownUnknownUnknownYes14
SSML or markup controlYes2Yes10Yes12Unknown
Long-form generationYes3Yes10Yes12Yes14
Clear commercial usage rightsUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknown
Voice consent verificationYes2UnknownUnknownUnknown
Background music or sound mixingUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknown
Webhook or async job supportUnknownUnknownUnknownUnknown
Official SDKYes2Yes11Yes12Yes15
Phone or telephony integrationUnknownYes10Yes13Yes14
Self-hosted or on-device deploymentUnknownUnknownNo13Yes15
Consumer reading appYes1UnknownUnknownUnknown

Feature list with quotes

  • Text-to-speech API: Yes2

    Build speech into your product with one API. Generate audio, stream long-form text, clone voices, and control delivery with SSML

  • Voice cloning: Yes2

    Clone a voice from a 10-30 second sample, with verified consent from the speaker

  • Pre-built voice library: Yes1

    Speechify offers over 1,000 natural-sounding text to speech voices in more than 60 languages

  • Multilingual voices: Yes1

    Speechify offers over 1,000 natural-sounding text to speech voices in more than 60 languages

  • Emotion or style control: Yes2

    Fine-grained control over pitch, rate, pauses, emphasis, and 13 emotion presets

  • Real-time streaming output: Yes2

    Streaming Start playback before the full audio is generated

  • Speech to text: Yes1

    Speechify offers free, fast, and accurate AI dictation and speech to text through its Voice Typing feature

  • SSML or markup control: Yes2

    Generate audio, stream long-form text, clone voices, and control delivery with SSML

  • Long-form generation: Yes3

    You can turn any text into an audiobook or a podcast and enjoy content read aloud

  • Voice consent verification: Yes2

    Clone a voice from a 10-30 second sample, with verified consent from the speaker

  • Official SDK: Yes2

    Install an SDK pip install speechify-api for Python, npm install @speechify/api for TypeScript

  • Consumer reading app: Yes1

    Chrome Extension reads anything in your browser with text to speech

Not stated on the vendor's pages: Video dubbing, Clear commercial usage rights, Background music or sound mixing, Webhook or async job support, Phone or telephony integration, Self-hosted or on-device deployment.

Sources

  1. https://speechify.com/, checked 20 Sep 2026
  2. https://docs.speechify.ai/build/guides/welcome, checked 20 Sep 2026
  3. https://speechify.com/pricing/, checked 20 Sep 2026
  4. https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/speechify.com, checked 2 Oct 2026
  5. https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/@speechify/api, checked 2 Oct 2026
  6. https://pypistats.org/api/packages/speechify-api/recent, checked 2 Oct 2026
  7. https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=%22speechify.com%22&restrictSearchableAttributes=url&tags=story&hitsPerPage=1000, checked 2 Oct 2026
  8. https://status.speechify.com/, checked 2 Oct 2026
  9. https://speechify.com/.well-known/security.txt, checked 2 Oct 2026
  10. https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech, checked 20 Sep 2026
  11. https://docs.cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs, checked 20 Sep 2026
  12. https://aws.amazon.com/polly/features/?nc=sn&loc=3, checked 20 Sep 2026
  13. https://aws.amazon.com/polly/, checked 20 Sep 2026
  14. https://elevenlabs.io/, checked 20 Sep 2026
  15. https://elevenlabs.io/docs/overview/intro, checked 20 Sep 2026

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