AI text-to-speech reader
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AI text-to-speech reader
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
To empower users to listen to their emails, books, papers, and documents with ease.
Desirable
Speechify’s AI-powered app and browser extension makes it easy for users to to listen to emails, text documents, e-books, PDFs, online blogs and articles in a variety of voices, languages and speeds.
Text-to-speech technology has been fraught with performance issues for a long time, though in recent years this has begun to change for the better. Products like Amazon Polly, Linguatech Voice Reader, and Natural Reader have made real in-roads on this front. What may set Speechify apart, however, is the insight of founder Cliff Weitzman, who built the app to help people with dyslexia (which he himself has), ADHD, vision impairments and other learning difficulties.
The company’s future growth may depend largely on who it targets and how it does so. Thus far it’s been mostly branded as a learning assistant, lauded by parents, teachers and adult users with reading disabilities. This niche approach is interesting and offers a potentially large market in the education sector. However the technology also has mainstream appeal, with the potential to be branded as a productivity booster or multi-tasking assistant.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Founders
Cliff Weitzman
(CEO)Having studied at Brown University, Cliff founded YumPass, CellArmor, and BoardBrake before working as a Software Engineer at WeMap and StarterPack. In 2018, they founded Speechify in 2018, serving since as CEO.
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