Mi Speaks 2.0
Books and PDFs read aloud by neural voices, on device
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Details
- External ID
- 1258540
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mi Speaks 2.0
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 81
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.98
- Tags
- iOS, Productivity, Artificial Intelligence
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Niche
- voice AI and speech tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- on-device text-to-speech reader for books and pdfs
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building an iOS reader app is easy, but running 28 high-quality neural voice models fully on-device with synchronized word highlighting requires significant optimization of on-device ML models.
What it would actually take: Requires native iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) using CoreML or ONNX Runtime Mobile executing quantized neural TTS architectures (like Piper, VITS, or StyleTTS 2) with Apple Neural Engine acceleration. Also needs PDF parsing with bounding-box text extraction (PDFKit) synchronized with TTS phoneme/word-level audio timing markers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 480 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 481 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- Sandbook · ph · 2026-10-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Voxprint · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Heard for iOS: ePub reader with on-device text to speech · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- OBook Text To Speech · ph · 2026-09-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- TapTalk · ph · 2026-09-07 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Maryanne: read or listen to ebook & PDF · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- LittleTTS · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Epilude Narrator · ph · 2026-10-08 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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