Thank you to @Apple for recognizing @SpeechifyAI today at App of the Day!!! From Apple: "Speechify is an effortless human-sounding AI reading assistant that can help you learn more in less time." "What we love: The many different ways to use this powerful productivity and accessibility tool. Snap a photo of your textbook to listen while you commute. Turn blog posts into audio. Plow through work emails (which are much more digestible and entertaining in the voice of Snoop Dogg or Gwyneth Paltrow)."

A few weeks ago I sat down to answer what sounded like a simple question: which text-to-speech model should we actually use? I figured I'd check a leaderboard, pick the top one, and move on. That's not how it went. By the time I'd worked through 19 models, the "winner" had changed twice. Cartesia's Sonic 3.5 took the number one spot on May 22. Nine days later, Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS had taken it back. The ground was moving while I was standing on it. So I stopped hunting for the best model and started asking a better question: best at what? Once I framed it that way, the picture got clear. If you're building a live voice agent, latency is everything, and Sonic 3.5 answers in about 82 milliseconds. If you're producing long narration, Gemini gives you 200 audio tags and real control, but it can't stream and caps at 32k tokens, so it's built for reading, not conversation. If you want to self-host, Fish Audio S2 Pro is the strongest open-weight model out there, right up until you read the license and realize commercial use costs extra. And if budget is the constraint, Kokoro runs on a CPU for around 65 cents per million characters. None of them is "the best." Each one wins a specific brief. That's the part the leaderboards leave out. A number one ranking answers a question most teams aren't actually asking. The real work is naming the one thing you can't compromise on, then testing two models on your own text. I wrote up all 19, with the trade-offs, pricing, and licensing, in one place. Here is our take: marktechpost.com/2026/05/30/… @inworld_ai @cartesia @OpenAI @GoogleDeepMind @Microsoft @xai @MistralDevs @MistralAI @ElevenLabs @DeepgramAI @hume_ai @SpeechifyAI @Alibaba_Qwen @MiniMax_AI

what's in my beach bag? 🕶️ sunglasses 🧴 SPF 50 📚 3 books I would never actually finish 🎧 Speechify...so I actually will this is what our 'reading era' looks like

I got the chance to sit down with @HarryStebbings at @20vcFund and share how I went from struggling to read as a kid to building one of the world's most widely used AI voice platforms. We talked about some of the hardest lessons I learned while building Speechify, the future of AI, and what nobody tells you about becoming a founder. Full episode in the comments below!

We're proud to share our partnership story with @SpeechifyAI. Speechify just announced SIMBA 3.0, ranked top 10 globally on the @ArtificialAnlys TTS leaderboard and the most cost-efficient model by far in that tier. We’re honored to serve the full SIMBA TTS family and other core workloads for Speechify, achieving: → 44% lower cost per 1M characters → 30-50% lower p99 latency → 4.5x faster cold starts Read the full case study here:

.@SpeechifyAI new SIMBA v3 model is an incredible addition to the growing ecosystem of text-to-speech models. Thrilled to be powering their inference!

The @artificialAnlys rankings are out, and Speechify's SIMBA 3.0 text to speech model just hit the top 10 at the lowest cost per 1M chars. At Speechify we build with three things at the forefront: quality, cost and latency, and the results speak for themselves. Based on those combined metrics, SIMBA ranks amoung the best TTS models in the world while performing other leading models on affordability, including @ElevenLabs, @cartesia, @OpenAI, @google, @amazon, and @nvidia. See what all the buzz is about! Live now at @SpeechifyAI.

Speechify's SIMBA 3.0 text to speech model just hit the @ArtificialAnlys top 10 at the lowest cost per 1M chars. On the combined metrics of quality, cost, & latency, SIMBA 3.0 ranks among the best TTS models in the world, while outperforming models from @ElevenLabs, @cartesia, @OpenAI, @google, @amazon & @nvidia on affordability. Up now at speechify.ai 🚀

"Listening instead of reading is lazy." Choosing to learn in a way that works for your brain is NOT lazy. Absorbing information 2-3x faster by listening is NOT. lazy Finally finishing the books you bought is NOT lazy. Remember, learning differently doesn't mean learning less.

Founder Cliff Weitzman created a product that "solved" his dyslexia, which is now used worldwide by over 60 million users today. In an interview with Harry Stebbings, Cliff takes a deep dive into how he created Speechify and his secrets to connecting with the world's top 100 CEOs. And the secret to success may surprise you. Its isn't purley intelligence...its relentless curiosity and the willingness to step outside of your comfort zone again and again. Watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=HLmo450G…

The other day I asked a longtime family friend what he uses to stay on top of his work. He had no idea I’d just joined the team at Speechify. “I’ve been using Speechify since before college,” he told me (he graduated in 2021). “A lot of my teachers didn’t support how I learn. Being able to scan assignments and listen to them was one of the only things that helped me keep up, and actually understand the material.” Seeing Speechify “in the wild” like that hit different. Accessibility isn’t a feature. It’s the difference between getting by and truly learning. Proud to be apart of something that meets people where they are.

Yesterday, founder @cliffweitzman sat down with @HarryStebbings and we couldn't be more intrigued by their conversation. A deep look into the business of Speechify and the backstory of how and why we got started. Listen soon...

excited for this one @cliffweitzman @HarryStebbings @SpeechifyAI was the 2nd ever @adjacent investment in 2019/20 and stayed largely underrated by the world stay tuned for some wild stories...

This is the mind and heart behind Speechify, right here. linkedin.com/posts/cliffweit…

We are so excited to have partnered with @windowsdev! linkedin.com/posts/windows-d…

🎙️ @SpeechifyAI just launched its Windows app ⚡ Real-time text to speech 🗣️ Voice typing 🔒 On-device AI Built for Intel, AMD & Arm PCs. Learn more ↓ msft.it/6016vD5Uu

→ Hassan presses AI voice cloning companies: @SenatorHassan (D-N.H.) is seeking information from @ElevenLabs, @LOVOlabs, @SpeechifyAI and @veedstudio on safeguards to prevent scammers from exploiting voice cloning tools, citing FBI data showing $893 million in AI-related scam

The @SpeechifyAI podcast feature is ridiculously cool. It can turn any book into a full podcast with two AI hosts actually discussing it. Feels like listening to a real conversation, not just narration. Reading just became optional.

A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine woke up and couldn’t see clearly. No warning. No explanation. After hours in the ER, she got the news: Multiple Sclerosis. Everything changed overnight. She’s a founder. Her entire job is reading, writing, staying on top of everything. And suddenly, the thing she relied on most… became the hardest thing to do. She told me she felt helpless. I said, “Just try this—use Speechify to read your emails, messages, everything. Let it take some of the load.” A couple weeks later, she called me. She said it changed her life. She’s back to running her team, keeping up with work, feeling like herself again. Technology doesn’t fix everything. But sometimes, it gives people a way to keep going when everything else gets harder.