Audify or a general text-to-speech tool?
General text-to-speech tools turn text into audio. Audify uses the same kind of voices, and adds everything a book needs around them.
| LEXA Audify | General text-to-speech tool | |
|---|---|---|
| Whole books | Finds chapters, narrates them in order, one MP3 each | Usually one passage at a time |
| Read-along | Yellow line highlight and 1080p video for each chapter | Audio only |
| Fixing words | Tap a word, re-record only that passage, remember it | Edit the text and regenerate |
| Quranic verses | Detected and kept out of the audio | Read aloud like any other text |
| Urdu and Arabic pages | Nastaliq and Naskh layout, Roman Urdu converted | Varies |
| Poetry | Recitation styles that respect metre | Read like prose |
Choose Audify for
- Books and long documents
- Urdu, Arabic and Islamic content
- You need video as well as audio
Choose a general text-to-speech tool for
- Short clips, voice-overs and app prompts
- Developers who need an API
- Languages or voices Audify does not offer yet