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🎤 To give a long speech 🗣️ To read aloud
to speechify

to speechify

7.2
To turn written text into spoken audio using an app
  • verb
  • /ˈspiːtʃɪfaɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : vocalizar
  • With Speechify, you can easily speechify any document and listen to it instead of reading.

Examples

  • In our busy lives, tools like Speechify help us speechify articles so we can consume information on the go.

  • The teacher used Speechify to speechify her lecture notes so her students could listen while they wrote.

  • What's really cool is that in Speechify you can, you know, at some point you'll be able to just record.

  • But now you've got Audible, you've got YouTube, you've got Speechify, all things that allow you to take in information by listening.

Synonyms

to vocalize
vsto speechify
14 4.4

To use your voice to show your thoughts or feelings

is produced by software to convert written text into spoken audio

Surface Forms

speechify infinitive
speechified past
speechified past participle
speechifying present participle
speechifies third person singular

Morphology

speechify = speech (transparent) = speech + ify

Clear productive formation 'speech' + '-ify' = 'to make into speech', matching the technology-driven meaning 'convert text to spoken audio'.

Etymology

Speechify combines speech ('a talk') with -ify ('to make'), so it can be read as 'make into speech' and is now used for turning writing into spoken audio with a text-to-speech app.