Speechify is a mobile,
Chrome extension, and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer-generated
text to speech voice.
The app also uses
optical character recognition
Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronics, electronic or machine, mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo ...
technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio which can be played in your own voice or in that of a celebrity.
The app lets users take photos of text and then listen to it read out loud.
Speechify was founded by
Cliff Weitzman, a
dyslexic
Dyslexia (), previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability that affects either reading or writing. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writ ...
college student at
Brown University
Brown University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. It is the List of colonial colleges, seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the US, founded in 1764 as the ' ...
who built the first version of the tool himself to help him keep up with his class readings. Research has indicated that dyslexic students who utilized Speechify had better reading comprehension outcomes than students who only used traditional means.
See also
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15.ai
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ElevenLabs
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Respeecher
References
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External links
Official website
Speech synthesis software