Overview Speechify is the AI text to speech app that reads your emails, PDFs, articles, Kindle books, and Word documents out loud — and quietly became one of the most installed productivity and accessibility apps in the world in the process. Founded in 2016 by Cliff Weitzman, a Brown educated entrepreneur who built the first version specifically because he has dyslexia and wanted a better way to consume written content, Speechify has grown into a company that serves an unusual mix of users: students with learning differences, busy professionals who "read" articles on their commute, ESL learners improving their English, and — increasingly — creators using Speechify's studio product to generate voiceover for videos. As of 2026 the product line spans the flagship reader app (iOS, Android, Chrome extension, Mac, Windows), Speechify Studio for creators, an API for developers, and a set of celebrity and clone your own voices that the reader app can use. What Speechify actually does, cleanly stated in its main use case, is take any written content — a PDF, a webpage, an email, a scanned document, a Kindle book — and read it to you in a natural voice at a speed you control (up to 5x for power users, adjustable in fine increments). You can highlight text on any webpage and hit play. You can point the app at a folder of PDFs and it queues them. You can OCR a printed page with your phone camera and Speechify reads it back. For the…