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SourceCompany research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 5, 2026
Overview
Speechify is a privately held voice-AI and accessibility software company founded in 2017 by brothers Cliff and Tyler Weitzman. It began as a dyslexia-focused text-to-speech reader and has expanded into a cross-platform Voice AI Productivity Assistant combining reading, dictation, AI podcasts, notes, voice agents and developer APIs. Speechify says it serves more than 60 million users; its core monetization is freemium consumer subscriptions supplemented by API usage, creator tools and enterprise/education licensing.
Primary product
Speechify Voice AI Productivity Assistant: a cross-platform text-to-speech reader for PDFs, books, documents and web pages, expanded with voice typing/dictation, AI summaries, AI podcasts, notes and voice workflows.
Founded
2017
Headquarters
Miami, Florida, United States (older company databases); current hiring materials say the company has no physical office and is 100% distributed.
Team size
Approximately 135โ200; LinkedIn reports 135, while current job postings say nearly 200 globally. Older databases report 51โ100 and are likely stale.
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software development / artificial intelligence
Sub-industry
Text-to-speech, voice AI, accessibility and productivity software
Business model
Freemium consumer subscription
Usage-based developer/API pricing
Enterprise and educational bulk licensing
AI Studio/creator subscriptions
B2B voice-agent and productivity-platform partnerships
Funding
Stage
Private; early-stage/seed funding is publicly documented. A 2024 $10M raise at a $100M valuation is reported by company/secondary sources, but the complete capital history is not consistently disclosed.
Total raised
$4.5M
Latest round
Funding round ยท Jan 2024
Latest amount
$10M
Jan 2024
Jan 2021 ยท Forerunner Ventures
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Co-Founder, Head of Artificial Intelligence & President
Chief Financial Officer
Work & culture
Speechify describes a high-performance, fast-shipping, asynchronous culture emphasizing extreme ownership, autonomy, rapid iteration, clarity and a 'founders, not managers' operating style. This is primarily company-reported culture information.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public U.S. engineering postings show $140,000โ$200,000 annual base salary plus bonus and stock, depending on experience. Other compensation bands are not established from the reviewed evidence.
Benefits
Competitive compensation
Bonus and stock/equity for applicable roles
Flexible schedule and asynchronous work
Autonomy and ownership
Work-from-anywhere distributed environment
Mission-driven work supporting people with dyslexia, ADHD and other learning differences
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium: free limited tier; Premium consumer subscription listed at $29/month with annual pricing offered; API usage-based pricing from about $10 per one million characters; custom enterprise and education pricing.
Differentiators
- โAccessibility-led origin and product positioning
- โCross-platform reader spanning documents, books, web pages and PDFs
- โ1,000+ voices and 60+ languages
- โIntegrated text-to-speech, dictation, AI podcasts, notes and voice workflows
- โProprietary SIMBA voice models and vertically integrated voice research
- โVoice cloning, dubbing and creator tooling
- โDeveloper API with streaming, SSML and speech marks
- Large consumer distribution and usage data supporting model iteration
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Approximately $10Mโ$25M annual revenue/ARR; GetLatka reports $17.6M 2025 revenue, but this is a third-party estimate and not audited.
Estimated monthly visits
10.3M
Signals & risks
Other
Private-company funding and valuation disclosures are inconsistent across databases; reported totals range from $4.5M through early rounds to substantially higher secondary estimates. Treat financing data as incomplete.
SourceLatest news
Speechify ยท Jul 2026
Speechify reported surpassing 500,000 five-star iOS ratings and more than 60 million users across nearly 200 countries.
Speechify ยท Jul 2026
Speechify announced that its SIMBA 3.2 text-to-speech model ranked first on the Artificial Analysis leaderboard; the claim should be treated as company-reported benchmark news.
Speechify ยท Jun 2026
Speechify launched voice-typing dictation for iOS and Mac, expanding from reading into cross-application voice productivity.
Speechify ยท May 2026
Speechify made its text-to-speech and AI Studio products available to business customers through Microsoft AppSource and Azure-oriented procurement.
Open Positions
1000 jobs at Speechify
Go-to-Market - Leeds, United Kingdom
On-site
Global
Leeds, United Kingdom
2d ago
On-site
Full-time