Introducing New Features for Students & Professionals

Upgrade to Speechify v2.3.6 to access awesome new features!

Speechify
Speechify
5 min readOct 28, 2020

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We’re excited to share some big news! Over the past couple months we’ve been hard at work creating some awesome new features that will help you get even more done with Speechify.

Version 2.3.6 of Speechify is now available to download for iPhone and iPad! Simply go to the App Store to upgrade.

Here’s a sneak peek of all the features and updates you’ll get access to with the new version of Speechify.

🚀 Features

Bookmarking, Highlighting, Note-taking

With this update we’re introducing three highly-requested features: bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking! 🤩

You can now bookmark a paragraph and come back to it at any time, highlighting allows you to color important sections of your text, and with note-taking you can attach a written note to highlighted sections.

To try out these features in Speechify v2.3.6, press your finger over any text to select it and the options to bookmark, highlight, or create a note will appear at the bottom of your screen.

📚 Bookmarking

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Bookmarking is a breeze

✏️ Note-taking

GIF of the new Note-taking feature in action
Taking Notes is easy as pie

To access your existing Bookmarks and Notes, click the top right button Aa and select Bookmarks and Notes. For a complete tutorial on how to use these features, refer to the videos below. 👇

📚 Bookmarking

How to Access Bookmarks on Speechify

✏️ Note-taking

How to Access Notes on Speechify

Listen On Repeat

Studying for an exam? Need to memorize lines, prep for your big speech, or just go deep with your reading? You can listen to any document, article, or book on repeat as many times as you want with our new “on-repeat” feature.

Simply tap the Repeat button in the top-right corner of the main reading screen to listen over, and over, and over….

Image showing the new Listen on Repeat button in the top right corner of the Speechify reading screen
Now you can Listen on Repeat

Introducing “Goals”

Goals are a fun way for new users to get started with Speechify’s key features, and for all users to win some free HD words!

You’ll get 1,000 free HD words by achieving simple Goals like listening to 500 words, changing your speed, and scanning a text. We’ve also got more challenging Goals coming soon with even more exciting rewards, so stay tuned! 🤩

Image showing the new Goals screen in Speechify, with goals such as “Listen to 500 words”, “Import a document”, and more
Reach new Goals!

iPad Redesign

With this update we’ve given the iPad version an entirely new look. 👀

You can now experience Speechify in both portrait and landscape mode, and you can browse the app and multitask like a boss while listening to files from your library. (Basically, the entire iPad experience just leveled up!)

Plus, in the works for our next update are Split View and Apple Pencil integration, so there are more fantastic features for iPad lovers to look forward to.

Speechify’s iPad Redesign!

🛠 Additional Enhancements

Library Upgrade

We’ve updated the Speechify Library to be more secure and stable than ever! Since this is an internal upgrade, the visual appearance of your library will stay the same.

When you update to v2.3.6, it will typically take 10–30 seconds for all files in your Library to become accessible. However, if you’re a Speechify super user with a lot of files and folders, your files may take several minutes to become available. We recommend that you keep the app open during the Library migration process in order to ensure everything goes smoothly.

And if you run into any issues with your upgrade or think any of your files are missing, don’t panic! Email us ASAP using the email address linked to your Speechify account. We’re happy to retrieve any of your old files that are having trouble transferring. 👍

Your library migration will look something like this

“Rich View” for Imported Web Articles

Previously, when you viewed imported web articles in Speechify you could only see the plain text of the article. Now with Rich View you can see the full article including titles, subtitles, external links, images, and any predefined formatting.

This lets you get the full experience of the article, whether you’re reading along while listening, or want to check out pictures and links mentioned in the text. ✨

🔙 Before (plain text)

GIF of scrolling throw an article in Speechify with the old plain text view
All you could see was plain text

🌟 Now (rich text):

GIF of scrolling throw an article in Speechify with the new rich text view which includes images, links, and more
Now you can see images, links, and more!

“Pull to Refresh” for Integrated Sources

Speechify lets you import files from cloud services including Google Drive, Dropbox, Pocket, Evernote, and more.

Now when you visit the Import Files page you can simply swipe down on your screen to refresh the visible content, so you’ll always have up-to-the-second access to all files available — without having to restart the Speechify app.

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Pull to refresh your cloud sources

Sunsetting “Language Translation”

Instant translation into 60+ languages is a Premium feature that we’ve offered for the past year, but due to low adoption rates by Speechify users and the high cost of maintenance, we’ve decided to discontinue this feature.

If you regularly use Language Translation and feel you will be impacted by this decision, please contact us.

Survey for Podcast Users

Are you a podcast lover? We’re experimenting with new features for our next update and would love to hear about your experience with Apple Podcasts. ❤️

Fill out this quick survey to share your thoughts and have the chance to get paid $50 for a 20-minute conversation.

We’re thrilled to share Speechify v2.3.6 with you! When you’re ready to experience these features and updates for yourself, open the App Store to download the new version.

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