Speechify

About Speechify

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Speechify

All products by Speechify reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

SpeechifyAI Voice & Speech

Text to speech platform with 1,000+ AI voices across 60+ languages

From $12/mo7.5/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Speechify

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Speechify's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.8 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Speechify competes with, and how they differ.

ElevenLabs8.3/10

ElevenLabs is a developer-first voice-cloning and multilingual-dubbing API business with no consumer reading app of its own, and Speechify's own July 2026 Simba 3.2 leaderboard announcement explicitly benchmarked its voice models against ElevenLabs on quality.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Cartesia7.9/10

Cartesia sells a sub-90ms real-time voice API built on state-space models rather than transformers, targeting the same low-latency conversational-agent developers Speechify's new Simba Voice Agents platform is chasing; Speechify also named Cartesia directly in its own model-ranking PR.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Natural Reader7.3/10

NaturalReader is a lower-priced OCR-plus-TTS reading tool built on licensed third-party voice models (Gemini, OpenAI, Azure, ElevenLabs) rather than Speechify's own proprietary Simba models, competing head-on for the same dyslexia/accessibility reading-app market.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Murf7.8/10

Murf targets marketers and e-learning teams with a full voiceover-and-video production studio billed by Voice Generation Time rather than characters, overlapping with Speechify's TTS voice library but skipping the accessibility reading-app use case entirely.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Bland AI7.9/10

Bland AI is a developer-focused outbound/inbound phone-call voice-agent platform billed per minute plus a monthly platform fee, competing directly with the enterprise voice-agent segment Speechify entered in April 2026 with the Simba Voice Agents early-access program.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Speechify's history, with sources.

1. Jul 7, 2026Milestone

   Simba 3.2 ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis TTS Leaderboard

   Speechify announced its Simba 3.2 voice model ranked first on the independent Artificial Analysis text-to-speech leaderboard and joint second on Voice Arena's blind listener rankings, ahead of ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI and Google DeepMind.

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2. Apr 30, 2026Launch

   Speechify Work early access launched

   Speechify opened early access to Speechify Work, an AI agent platform letting knowledge workers delegate research, presentations, spreadsheets and reports to AI agents, positioned against Perplexity Computer and Claude Cowork.

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3. Apr 22, 2026Launch

   Simba Voice Agents early access program launched

   Speechify launched an early access program for Simba Voice Agents, a new voice-AI infrastructure brand for businesses, offering 1,000,000 minutes of usage to selected early partners for customer interaction and sales workflows.

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4. Feb 13, 2026Launch

   Simba 3.0 voice model launched for production use

   Speechify's AI Research Lab launched Simba 3.0, a production-grade text-to-speech, speech-to-text and speech-to-speech model priced at $10 per 1M characters versus roughly $200 for ElevenLabs, with full public availability planned for March 2026.

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5. Jun 3, 2025Milestone

   Speechify wins 2025 Apple Design Award for Inclusivity

   Apple named Speechify a winner of the 2025 Apple Design Award in the Inclusivity category, citing its support for hundreds of voices across 50+ languages and accessibility features like Dynamic Type and VoiceOver; the company accepted the award on the WWDC Main Stage on June 9, 2025.

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6. 2024Funding

   Speechify raises $10M at a $100M valuation

   Speechify raised $10M in new funding at a $100M valuation, which the company said it would invest across engineering, AI and growth.

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7. Dec 21, 2023Milestone

   Google names Speechify to its 2023 favorite Chrome extensions list

   Google included Speechify's Chrome extension on its list of favorite Chrome extensions of 2023, describing it as a text-to-speech extension that reads articles, emails and PDFs using natural voices and accents.

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