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Cliff Weitzman on building the ‘voice of the internet’ - Episode 1
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Joining me on the very first episode of Made For Us is Cliff Weitzman, the Founder and CEO of Speechify, a text-to-speech app that uses AI to turn text from documents, websites and email to audio. Speechify has been downloaded by more than 20 million users and is the #1 rated AI text-to-speech app in its category on Apple’s App Store. Among its user base are people with dyslexia, ADHD, low vision and other conditions that make reading difficult. In 2017, Weitzman made the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities.
In this episode, Cliff discusses:
- How his dyslexia fueled his entrepreneurial drive
- Why he decided that dyslexia was what he wanted to solve
- The advances in AI that made a product like Speechify possible
- How Speechify has helped make reading more accessible
- What he’s learned since transitioning from being a solo founder to having a co-founder
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