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Speechify
✓ verifiedFreemium
Text-to-speech and voice-typing assistant that reads PDFs and web pages aloud and dictates text across apps, for readers and multitaskers.
6.7M visits/mo17K saves
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Output
✓ verifiedPaid
Music-software maker behind creative production tools and plugins such as Arcade, Portal and Movement for producers and musicians.
387K visits/mo
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BPM Finder
✓ verifiedFree
Free browser-based BPM detector for audio files, tap tempo and live mic, processing audio locally with no uploads.
80K visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/month (10 robotic voices, up to 1.5x speed)
Premium: $29/month (1,000+ voices, 60+ languages, up to 5x speed, dictation, podcasts)
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Core features
- ✦1,000+ natural-sounding AI voices in 60+ languages
- ✦Adjustable playback speed up to 5x
- ✦Text highlighting synced to audio
- ✦Scan-and-listen photo-to-speech
- ✦Voice dictation/typing across apps
- ✦AI podcast generation from documents
- ✦Voice AI assistant for Q&A on read content
- ✦Cloud storage integrations (Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive)
- ✦Arcade sample-based instrument
- ✦Effect plugins for granular, motion and distortion processing
- ✦Large, evolving library of sounds and presets
- ✦Runs as plugins inside major DAWs
- ✦Upload single or batch audio BPM analysis
- ✦Tap-tempo and real-time microphone modes
- ✦100% client-side, no server uploads
- ✦Confidence scoring and octave-error checks
- ✦CSV export and clipboard copy
- ✦Companion key finder and tempo-change tools
Use cases
- →Listening to long articles, PDFs or emails hands-free
- →Studying by having textbooks or lecture notes read aloud
- →Dictating text faster than typing across apps
- →Turning documents into podcast-style audio
- →Reducing eye strain from extensive reading
- →Producing and sound design in a DAW
- →Adding movement and texture to tracks
- →Sourcing sample-based instrument content
- →Speeding up creative music workflows
- →Finding a song's tempo for DJ sets
- →Batch-analyzing a sample library by BPM
- →Building tempo-matched workout playlists
- →Syncing music to video edits
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