HancVoice vs Speechify: listening or publishing?
Speechify is best known as an app that reads documents, books and web pages aloud to you. HancVoice is a studio for making voice-overs you publish: videos, courses, audiobooks and phone menus.
Pick by what happens to the audio
Choose Speechify if you want to listen to your own reading list on the phone or in the browser, faster than you could read it.
Choose HancVoice if the audio leaves your device: a voice-over for a video, a lesson, an audiobook or an announcement that other people will hear.
HancVoice and Speechify side by side
| HancVoice | Speechify | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Voice-overs and audio files you publish | Listening to texts in the app; a separate studio for voice-overs |
| Free plan | 10,000 characters, once at sign-up | 10 basic voices, up to 1.5x speed |
| Paid plan | Starter: €9 a month for 120,000 characters | Premium reader: $29 a month |
| Result | WAV or MP3 file, or a REST API call | Playback in the app |
| Languages | 10 core languages, 24 in total with beta | 60+ |
| Voices | 320 ready voices | 1,000+ |
| Currency | Euro, VAT included where it applies | US dollar |
Where HancVoice is stronger
- Built for publishing: files in WAV or MP3, projects you can come back to, and an API.
- Control over delivery: pace, pauses and stress for each passage.
- Audiobooks chapter by chapter from long texts.
- A lower price to start: €9 a month.
Where Speechify is stronger
- Listening on the go: apps for phone and desktop, a browser extension, scanning printed pages.
- Many more voices (1,000+) and languages (60+).
- Reading features such as speed up to 5x and summaries.
Speechify details as listed on their public pricing pages in October 2026. Prices and plans change, please check their site before you decide. Source: speechify.com/pricing
Two different jobs
A reader app turns the text in front of you into speech for you alone. A voice-over studio turns a script into an audio file that other people hear, so the voice, the pronunciation and the pauses have to be right before you publish.
HancVoice gives you an editor for exactly that: you choose a voice, adjust pace, pauses and stress where a word sounds wrong, save the project and export WAV or MP3.
Who usually switches
Course authors, YouTube creators and small companies that started with a reader app and then needed audio for a product video, a lesson or a phone menu. For those projects a voice-over tool with per-character pricing is usually cheaper and gives more control.
Listen to HancVoice voices
Real voices from our catalog. Press play on a portrait.
Questions and answers
You can paste any text and listen in the editor, but HancVoice is built for making audio files. For reading long documents on the phone, a reader app like Speechify is more convenient.
HancVoice Starter costs €9 a month for 120,000 characters. Speechify Premium, its reader plan, costs $29 a month as listed in October 2026. Its voice-over studio has its own prices.
WAV and MP3. Developers can also generate audio through the REST API.
Yes. A short recording is enough to create a private voice that only your account can use.
Turn your next script into a voice-over
10,000 characters free at sign-up. No card needed.