Reviews for Speechify – Text to Speech

I ditched this app immediately due to the incredibly long, boring, needless forced intro. They wanted to give a power point presentation to sell you on something that you could find out for yourself if only they'd shut up. Next, they advertise a huge number of voices - all but 3 or 4 are the same fake sounding robotic voices you could get on Windows 98. Lastly, despite immediately canceling the free trial, they've made multiple attempts to charge my card. MULTIPLE!

This app and extension have become so glitchy they're unusable. I've tried contacting customer service multiple times with recordings of the various issues and no help. It's quite an expensive service that I haven't been able to use, so I've been requesting a refund as I'm not getting the service I'm paying for, but of course they ignore those emails.

While the voice selections are great. The app itself has a lot of issues. It gets stuck while reading and I have to restart it several times. When using faster speech speed it gets stuck in segments and pauses as the screen text follower catches up to the voice, meaning there is some silence between sentences. All this with the premium trial. I will definitely be canceling and not paying for premium.

took pic of book cover and wanted me to take pics of pages,NOT!!! This is not what I thought I was signing up for. Disabled and don't have the patience to try to mess around with someth is professed to be easy all the way around. Before I knew it 3 days was up..Who gives a 3 day trial, especially for $100 from the get go after trial ends, without offering monthly payments? I couldn't afford the $100 because I forgot to transfer $ from savings, in the meantime I'm dealing with Trying to cancel..

you know, I like this app for a long time. then it decided I couldn't use it anymore unless I purchased the premium version. said I had 5 files already. I had no files. I tried Uninstalling and reinstalling. same issue. im not paying 99 bucks for an e reader. it was great until they felt I used it enough to be bullied into buying the full version. all they succeeded in doing was annoying me and making me delete the app and use one of the dozen other comparable alternatives.

The playback was choppy, "me" was read consistently as "m-n-e". Many other words mispronounced. "I", at the beginning of a sentence was interpreted as "one". It kept skipping whole paragraphs and re-ordered some of the words, making it confusing. I tried the feature advertised as "if you can take a picture of the book cover, you can listen through this app." It did not work for me. I may try it again after some of the issues are worked out.

There's no way to cancel, so they'll scam charge you. I tried for days to cancel, but there's no way to find how to in the app, nor the website. The voices are choppy, robotic, and the app freezes or stops or crashes constantly. Do not fall for the reviews!!! I suspect they are bots! It's a terrible app, service, and overpriced for the buggy garbage you actually get! Ironically I never would have posted a review if they had just been honest and let me cancel since the service is unusable!

Purchased the premium membership and it is not worth it. When using Kindle the narrator voices glitch and two will play at the same time. Or every other paragraph you have to press play again. Or they simply won't load at all for 1-2 days. Support tells you to uninstall the app but that has never worked to fix the glitches and then you have to sit through the 5 minute app intro every time you uninstall and reinstall. It's a great concept but so glitchy and not worth it.

The text scanning on this is cumbersome and really needs overhauled to make it usable. Other apps take a pic and go right away. This makes you take a pic, crop it, save it, give it time to generate and then still misses words. Multiple page scanning is probably the worst I've ever seen. like piecing a puzzle together with all the cropping and then hoping it captures it. I've tried and it will not read entire paragraphs. Good voice quality but the app is super clunky. Also yes it crashes for me

When it works, it's fabulous. But often it takes hours before I can successfully upload the document I want to read. It is supposed to link to Google Drive, but only does so maybe one try in 10. Linked to Kindle, Speechify reads a paragraph or so and then stops. Reading PDFs, Speechify adds arbitrary pauses in weird places - often at the end of each print line in a paragraph, which makes it very hard to follow by listening (but then it doesn't consistently pause at periods). Frustrating!