Speechify is an effortless human-sounding AI reading assistant that can help you learn more in less time.

What we love: The many different ways to use this powerful productivity and accessibility tool. Snap a photo of your textbook to listen while you commute. Turn blog posts into audio. Plow through work emails (which are much more digestible and entertaining in the voice of Snoop Dogg or Gwyneth Paltrow).

Quick tip: You can dial in the read-back speed that’s right for you. Because Speechify’s audio is generated on the fly (rather than recorded), listening at 300 words per minute sounds just as natural as 200 words per minute.

Meet the creator: The app’s founder and CEO, Cliff Weitzman, built Speechify as a student at Brown University to keep up with his class reading despite his dyslexia. “I’d take 15 quick photos and then listen while eating breakfast or longboarding to class,” he says.