Speechify
The Speechify text-to-speech app enables its over 50 million users worldwide to convert any text, including documents, articles, PDFs, and images into audio, with over 200 voices to choose from. Now, the company is delving into a new type of audio: AI-generated podcasts.
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Starting today, Speechify users will be able to turn any content into a "lecture-style" podcast. They'll also get access to a slew of other AI-powered features, including updates to AI Summaries and AI-generated quizzes and a new AI recap feature, and perhaps the biggest, AI podcasts.
Keep reading to find out how the new AI podcast feature works and how it compares to viral tools such as Google's NotebookLM Audio Overviews AI podcast feature or ElevenLabs' AI podcast option.
Who is Speechify for?
Speechify is geared toward people who either have a reading impediment or just prefer voice content. The new releases are positioned as study aids and back-to-school tools for students.
How does the AI-powered podcast work?
On the Speechify platform, you have always been able to upload your own materials for it to read them out loud for you. Now, those materials can be used to create a podcast. One feature that differentiates it from competitors like NotebookLM is that on the Speechify platform, you can choose the style of "show" that you want to listen to, with options including a standard podcast, debate, late-night with notes of comedy, and lecture.
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