Speechify vs VoiceStudio

Speechify is a text-to-speech product available on Android, iOS, macOS, web, Windows, and through an API. Its listed capabilities include voice cloning, commercial use, and MP3 audio export, with support for 60 languages. The free plan costs nothing and includes 10 voices with a maximum speed of 1.5x. Premium costs $29 a month, billed monthly, and lists more than 1,000 voices, 60+ languages, and a maximum speed of 5x. Speechify was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States. The plans differ in voice count and maximum playback speed; Premium also specifies its language offering as 60+ languages. Buyers can weigh those limits against the listed platform access, language support, and MP3 export when choosing a plan.

VoiceStudio is an open-source voice AI studio for local voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, dictation, transcription and audiobook creation. Users can describe a voice by gender, age, accent, pitch and emotion without providing reference audio. Its dubbing workflow transcribes and translates video, then re-voices it while keeping speakers separate and aligning timing with the original. Users can create multi-voice audio from scripts and chaptered audiobooks from long text or EPUB files. The desktop app exposes a local OpenAI-compatible API for speech, voices, transcription and dubbing. The maker lists 26 adapters, including local text-to-speech and transcription engines and a configured-remote ASR adapter. The maker says recordings, generated audio, transcripts and derived voice data stay on user-controlled storage and are not received by its website or control plane. The app may access the network for updates, model downloads or explicitly network-backed adapters. The public build has no hosted dashboard or Cloud API. Open Source costs nothing under AGPL-3.0; Pro costs $99 a year and Lifetime costs $299, paid once. Speech model licences are separate.