# ReadSpeaker review (2026): is it worth $9 a month per user? > Text-to-speech for websites, apps, schools and custom brand voices Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. ReadSpeaker is a text-to-speech company selling several products: web readers for sites and documents, a cloud studio and API for producing speech, SDKs and servers for apps, and TextAid, a literacy tool for schools. Most products are quoted per customer, though TextAid lists an individual price. It also builds custom brand voices. - **Category:** AI Voices & Text to Speech - **Made by:** ReadSpeaker B.V. - **Website:** https://www.readspeaker.com - **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want prices up front, as all but TextAid's individual plan are quoted. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, ReadSpeaker is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $9 per user / month (TextAid, individual). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** TextAid can be tried free; no credit card needed. Length not stated. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | TextAid (individual) | $9 per user / month, cancel or pause any time | Literacy support for one person; sold from $9 a month for individual, non-institutional users. | | ReadSpeaker Online | Custom | Annual license for web readers, priced by page views, students enrolled, population or speech volume. | | ReadSpeaker Enterprise | Custom | Licenses or pay-per-use by volume of speech, languages and voice quality; subscription, license or usage. | | Custom Voice | Custom | One-time development fee plus a license fee, with voice actor and studio costs passed through. | Read from https://www.readspeaker.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ReadSpeaker before buying. ## Key features - **webReader and docReader:** A voice plugin that reads website content aloud with translation, and a companion for listening to online documents including PDFs. - **speechMaker Studio and speechCloud API:** A cloud studio and an API for producing spoken audio from text with the company's premium voices. - **SDK and server deployment:** speechEngine SDK, an embedded edition for small devices, and speechServer let developers run speech inside their own apps or servers. - **TextAid for learners:** A literacy tool that reads text aloud with highlighting, with word prediction, dictionary and translation, in a browser extension, web app or LMS. - **Custom Voice and voice cloning:** A brand-specific synthetic voice built from a recorded voice actor, priced as a development fee plus licensing. - **Education integrations:** Ready-made connections for learning management and assessment platforms such as Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas and Brightspace. ## Good for - Schools and universities adding read-aloud to an LMS - Publishers and governments making web pages listenable - Companies that want an exclusive brand voice or an embedded speech engine ## Worth knowing - Pricing for every product except TextAid's individual plan is quoted on request, so costs cannot be compared up front. - Pricing depends on page views, enrollment or speech volume, and may include setup, support and training fees. - Custom voices need a one-time development fee, and recording costs are billed at actual cost. - TextAid's $9 starting price is for individuals; school and multi-user prices are not published. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. ReadSpeaker sells text-to-speech for websites, schools and custom brand voices, with LMS integrations. Only TextAid's individual plan has a price, at $9 a month, and everything else is quoted. - **Value for money: C.** $9 a user a month for TextAid, the one published price, against a category middle of $9.99. Every other product is quoted. - **Free plan and trial: C.** TextAid can be tried free with no card needed, but the length is not stated. - **Features: B.** Web reader, document reader, a studio and API, SDKs, TextAid, custom voices and education integrations. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record, and the larger products come through sales and a setup. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web app and browser extension with Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace and others, plus an API and SDK. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ReadSpeaker's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI voice generators - ReadSpeaker's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 47 of the 72 other AI voice generators we grade, and level with 16. - It stands best on features (B, above 44 of 72) and worst on value for money (C, above 5). - Its paid plans start at $9 a month for each person, against a middle price of $9.99 for the category: 20 of the 50 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-voices ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace ReadSpeaker you would be making a voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $108 a year. - You could not: A voice model, which you can rent by the minute but not make. - You could not: A voice model trained on your recordings. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Blackboard, Moodle and Canvas among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace, Schoology, Learnosity, Silverchair, SoftChalk **Tags:** Text to speech, Voice cloning, Public API ## Alternatives - [Azure AI Speech](https://toolgpa.com/tools/azure-ai-speech): Microsoft speech API for text to speech, transcription and translation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/azure-ai-speech-vs-readspeaker) - [Google Cloud Text-to-Speech](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-cloud-text-to-speech): Pay-per-character speech API with Gemini, Chirp and WaveNet voices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/google-cloud-text-to-speech-vs-readspeaker) - [IBM Watson TTS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ibm-watson-tts): IBM's text-to-speech API with neural voices and custom voices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ibm-watson-tts-vs-readspeaker) - [NaturalReader](https://toolgpa.com/tools/naturalreader): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents, with a voiceover app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/naturalreader-vs-readspeaker) - [Speechify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/speechify): Text-to-speech reader for listening to documents and web pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/readspeaker-vs-speechify) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.readspeaker.com/pricing/ - https://www.readspeaker.com/ - https://www.readspeaker.com/products/textaid/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/readspeaker Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).