Speechify is a mobile 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 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, 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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External Sources
Official Website
Speech synthesis software