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The SpeechifyAI CLI is here: drive the API from your terminal
There's now a command line for Speechify.
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Engineering Build a Slack bot that reads messages aloud with the Speechify API
Build a Slack bot that reads channel messages aloud with the Speechify API. Wire events, synthesize audio, and post the clip back to the channel.
Engineering Turn any webpage into an audiobook with the Speechify TTS API
Give the Speechify text-to-speech API a URL and the page comes back as narrated audio. Fetch, extract the article text, chunk on sentence boundaries, synthesize each chunk with POST /v1/audio/speech.
Guides SpeechifyAI and our elections
The safeguards SpeechifyAI operates to prevent synthetic voices being used for election misinformation, and the commitments behind them.
Engineering Voice Agent Tool Calls: What to Run Inline and What to Hand Off
A voice agent's tool call happens inside a turn the caller is waiting through, which makes it a latency decision before it is an architecture one. The rule: reads that return fast run inline, writes and slow lookups get a receipt and finish asynchronously.
Guides What Ecommerce Support Calls Actually Cost
The three ways an ecommerce brand answers the phone, normalized to cost per talk minute so they are comparable. Outsourced call centers run $0.35 to $1.35 a minute and voice agents run under $0.08 all-in, but containment rate decides more than either number.
Engineering Adding Text-to-Speech to a Web or Mobile App: The Practical Guide
What engineers actually use to add voice to web and mobile apps, and the four decisions that matter: the browser's built-in API versus a cloud one, streaming versus batch, where the key lives, and how to keep audio playing on iOS.
Guides Best Voice Agent Platforms 2026: 9 Compared
Nine voice agent platforms priced on what a minute actually costs once LLM, speech and telephony are added. Most headline rates are platform fees.
Guides Generating Audio Content at Scale in 2026: What an Hour Actually Costs
The tools for producing narration without hiring voice actors, compared on cost per finished hour rather than per seat. Studio subscriptions cap downloaded minutes; per-character APIs do not. One hour of audio runs from $0.31 to $40 depending on which you pick.
Guides Text-to-Speech for Customer Support Chatbots: How to Choose
Which speech platform to pick when your chatbot has to talk. The decision is not voice quality, it is whether you need a TTS API or a full voice agent, plus how the model reads account numbers and order IDs back to a caller.
Engineering Multilingual voiceover with the Speechify API and simba-3.0
Generate the same script in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese with the Speechify TTS API. Pick a simba-3.0 voice for each locale, call POST /v1/audio/speech per language, keep the key server-side.
Engineering Speech generation in the Vercel AI SDK with Speechify
The AI SDK ships generateSpeech() but no Speechify provider. So we wrote one: a dependency-free custom speech model that maps POST /v1/audio/speech onto the SDK's SpeechModelV4 interface, key held server-side in a Next.js route.
Product Simba 3.2 is our recommended TTS model: what changed and how to migrate
simba-3.2 is now the recommended Speechify TTS model, and GET /v1/audio/models lets you discover it at runtime instead of hardcoding a model list. What shipped, which voices it serves, and how to move off simba-3.0.
Guides Best TTS APIs of 2026: Top 10 Compared
The 10 text to speech APIs worth evaluating in 2026, ranked on blind-listener scores from Artificial Analysis and priced per million characters.
Engineering Building an AI Voice Cloning Web App with Next.js and Speechify
Clone a voice from a browser upload, synthesize speech with it, and keep your API key server-side. A working Next.js voice cloning app built on the Speechify API, no GPU required.
Engineering Streaming TTS directly to the browser with Web Audio API
Stream Speechify TTS as raw PCM, keep the API key server-side, and schedule each chunk into the browser's Web Audio API for low-latency playback.
Engineering Add a better voice to Deepgram's Voice Agent with Speechify
Point Deepgram Voice Agent at the open-source tts-shims OpenAI-compatible proxy to speak with a Speechify voice. The shim answers Deepgram's open_ai TTS request and keeps your Speechify key server-side.
Engineering Controlling Emotion and Timing in TTS with SSML
Use SSML emotion tags, pauses, prosody, emphasis, and pronunciation aliases to shape Speechify TTS output from one API request.
Research Simba 3.2 on the Artificial Analysis TTS leaderboard
Simba 3.2 is evaluated on Artificial Analysis' independent TTS benchmark and on Voice Arena's blind, listener-voted board. Streaming ~430ms to first byte, from $6 per 1M characters, with production-grade quality.
Engineering Building an automated audiobook pipeline with the Speechify TTS API
Turn long-form ePub or Markdown into a single narrated chapter MP3 with a runnable Python demo: chunk on sentence boundaries, synthesize each chunk, stitch with ffmpeg.
Engineering Switch to Speechify from inside speech-sdk
Speechify is now a direct provider in speech-sdk. Switch existing calls over with a factory function and an API key, no new client required.
Engineering Dynamic video narration using the Speechify Voice Cloning API
Clone a voice from a short sample and use it to narrate dynamic video content programmatically via the REST API.
Research How we think about latency in SpeechifyAI voice agents
Baseten published a case study on the SpeechifyAI voice agent stack. This is our view on why model co-location matters for live calls.
Engineering Building real-time captions with Speechify TTS speech marks
Use the Speechify API's word-level timestamps to generate accurate WebVTT captions for your synthesized audio.
Engineering Streaming TTS in Python with Speechify
How to stream audio from the Speechify TTS API in Python using the SDK and native requests. Covers chunked streaming to disk and piping audio to a player without waiting for the full payload.
Engineering Using TTS in Node.js with Speechify
A practical guide to synthesizing speech in Node.js using the Speechify TTS API. Covers installation, a basic synthesis call, streaming audio to disk, and what to reach for next.
Product Launching the Speechify Cookbook
A small, public repo of runnable Speechify recipes. Pick a folder, drop in your API key, run it. TypeScript and Python today, SDK and native REST side by side.
Product Hello Speechify Developers
Welcome to the new Speechify developer blog. Expect updates from the AI and labs teams, product news, collaborations, and technical guides for the Speechify TTS API.