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Fireflies vs Speechify

Side-by-side comparison of Fireflies and Speechify.

Tool
Fireflies

Auto-records, transcribes, and summarizes every meeting you take

Speechify

Text-to-speech app that reads anything aloud

Starting price
10/mo
29/mo
Founded
2016
2017
Pricing model
freemium
freemium
Free option
Free tier
Free tier

What they are

Fireflies

Fireflies is an AI meeting assistant that deploys a bot named Fred into your Zoom, Google Meet, Teams, or Webex calls to record, transcribe, and summarize conversations automatically. It builds a searchable archive of your entire meeting history, extracts action items, and on Business plans pushes notes directly into Salesforce or HubSpot. The free tier is usable for light testing, but the 800-minute storage cap and limited AI credits make it impractical for daily professional use.

Speechify

Speechify converts text from PDFs, articles, emails, Google Docs, and ebooks into spoken audio using AI-generated voices. It is used by students, professionals, and people with dyslexia or reading difficulties who want to consume written content faster or more comfortably. The voice quality is genuinely good at normal speeds, but at very high playback rates naturalness degrades noticeably. The free tier is limited to one standard voice and a capped speed.

Choose
Fireflies

if you need ai meetings. It has a usable free tier to start with.

  • +Unlimited transcription on all paid plans, starting at $10 per seat per month annually
  • +Bot joins calendar-connected calls automatically with no manual setup required
  • +AskFred lets you query your full meeting history in plain language
Choose
Speechify

if you need ai audio. It has a usable free tier to start with.

  • +High-quality AI voices that sound natural at moderate speeds
  • +Wide import support: PDFs, web pages, Google Docs, ebooks, emails
  • +Mobile and desktop apps with synced listening position

Which to choose

Fireflies and Speechify solve different problems, so most people would not choose between them directly. The comparison below helps if you are weighing where to spend budget, or deciding whether you need both.

Read the full reviews for Fireflies and Speechify.

Pricing checked 28 Jun 2026.