Mi Speaks

Voice communication made easy

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Voice communication made easy

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Mi Speaks empowers communication through innovative voice technology, making it easier than ever to express yourself.

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Mi Speaks 2.0

Launching today

Books and PDFs read aloud by neural voices, on device

Mi Speaks reads your books, articles and PDFs aloud. 2.0 adds 28 neural Studio Voices, American and British, generated entirely on your iPhone: nothing is uploaded, and they work in airplane mode. Import a PDF and follow along on the real page with the spoken word lit, jump to any chapter, and prepare a whole document so it plays to the end with the screen locked. Free has no length limit; Premium adds Studio Voices.

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Launch tags:iOS•Productivity•Artificial Intelligence

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Hi Product Hunt, Blaine here. I launched Mi Speaks here last December, and this is the first update big enough to come back with. The weak spot of 1.x was that it sounded like a phone reading to you: it used the system voices, and a fresh iPhone only has the compact ones. So 2.0 is mostly about the voice. There are now 28 Studio Voices, American and British, generated by a neural model entirely on your iPhone. Your text is never uploaded, there's no account, and it works in airplane mode. Running a neural voice on the phone has one real limit: iOS won't let an app use the graphics processor while it's off screen. So there's Prepare Full Document, which renders the whole book up front and then plays to the end with the screen locked. If you skip that, reading doesn't stop. Any passage that isn't ready yet is read in your system voice. Also new since last time: PDFs open as the actual page with the spoken word highlighted where it sits, chapters come from the book's outline (or from its headings when it has none), there's an Apple Watch app that gets the prepared Studio audio from your phone, and a Resume Reading widget. The free tier used to cut you off at 255 characters, which meant nobody could really try it. Now free has no length limit: any document, any voice already on your device, three saved documents. Premium adds the Studio Voices, an unlimited synced library, audio export and Turbo speeds. You can buy it monthly, yearly, or once for life, and the subscriptions start with a 7-day trial. What do you listen to most, and which voice did you end up picking? I'd like to hear what sounds wrong, too.

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21d ago

@blaineam Generating neural voices entirely on the phone, including in airplane mode, is impressive. Most apps in this space send the text to a server.

I am curious about two things:

1. How long does it take to start speaking on a long PDF? Do you generate the audio ahead of time ("prepare a whole document") or stream it sentence by sentence?

2. Does the voice stay perfectly consistent across a long document, or do you ever fall back to the system voice when the device is under load?

Following along on the real page with the spoken word highlighted is a great detail for accessibility. Congrats on 2.0.

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11h ago

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Congrats, Mi Speaks 2.0 team! Nice to be launching alongside you today. Benson is live too: https://www.producthunt.com/products/benson-2. Would appreciate a comment or some support if you get a spare minute. Hope it's a good day for you!

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20h ago

SonOf

Blaine, preparing the whole document for playback with the screen locked is a useful detail. Nice to see the phone's limits explained clearly alongside the new voices. Congrats on 2.0!

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16h ago

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Launched on December 23rd, 2025