Speechify is a mobile and desktop app that reads text aloud using a computer generated

text to speech Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal languag ...

voice. The app also uses

optical character recognition Optical character recognition or optical character reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned document, a photo of a document, a sc ...

technology to turn physical books or printed text into audio. The app lets users take photos of text and then listen to it read out loud. Speechify was founded by

Cliff Weitzman Cliff Weitzman is an Israeli-American entrepreneur. He is the founder of Speechify Text To Speech software. In 2017, Weitzman was named to ''Forbes'' magazine's 30 Under 30 list. Weitzman is a dyslexia Dyslexia, also known until the 1960 ...

, a

dyslexic Dyslexia, also known until the 1960s as word blindness, is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. Different people are affected to different degrees. Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, r ...

college student at Brown University who built the first version of the tool himself to help him keep up with his class readings.

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Speech synthesis software