The Best Text To Speech Apps for Shopify
People rarely read all the text on a web page. Many shoppers simply scan a few lines of product descriptions and prefer to focus on photos and other visual elements.
The text-to-speech feature helps to solve this problem by reading product descriptions out loud to customers, freeing their eyes to shop product photos, product options, and reviews. While they shop visually, they hear your complete product narrative, with all the facts and story influencing the buying decision.
We have an article to guide you on how to convert text-to-speech to listen on your Shopify store. If you’re more technical, you may want to do this manually. If you consider yourself non-technical, there are Shopify apps that convert text-to-speech for you.
Here is the best Text To Speech apps for Shopify in 2024:
1. Speakease Reader
Speakease brings your product descriptions to life using breakthrough natural and expressive text-to-speech voices. Using a revolutionary text-to-speech AI, Speakease allows you to choose a male or female voice to read product descriptions. Speakease can speak in your customer’s languages – it supports English, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, French, Japanese and Spanish.
The application is simple to install and adds an audio player on top of the product descriptions. Speakease is compatible with both desktop and mobile browsers, ensuring every shopper has the best experience. This app provides play count analytics and voice previews for all your products, so you can validate your customers are taking advantage of this benefit.
2. Speechify Content Reader
It is an auditory tool that “speaks” every text present on the page and custom announcements such as what a product is and why it’s worth purchasing.
The shoppers are freed from reading the site content using the tool and can focus on viewing the specifications, product photos, variations, and reviews. In addition, the innovative text-to-speech functionality mimics human diction and follows a natural narrative pattern.
The features you can avail yourself in this tool:
- Custom Text Addition: Announce custom information on a per-page basis.
- Read Content reader: The tool will read the existing information on the pages.
- Append Product information: Additional information (other than existing info) can be appended before or after the product description speech.
- Hide/ show page content: You have the flexibility to display or hide the specific page content when its audio is playing.
- Custom Page: The player can “read” the text info from any of the pages in your Shopify pages, such as the home page, collection, or catalog page. Add the page into the player list to enable playback on the page.
- Complete customization options: Every aspect of the player, such as text color, font size, icon, player background, playback button colors, etc., can be modified to match your store theme.
Multiple browser support: The playback is supported in both desktop and mobile browsers. - The application is straightforward to install and adds a sticky audio player to your enabled pages.
