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Incredible app, worthwhile investment… one small suggestion!
This app has changed my life in the past year. Worth the subscription & it only continues to improve, especially across languages (I listen in Spanish & English).
My unique complaint— for whatever reason the app doesn’t recognize words that start a sentence with th— and it spells it out as TH- whatever the ending is (-e, -is, -em). Would love someone to take a glance at that, seems like an important contribution, lol.
Keep up the good work! Love to knock out other tasks while I am prepping for class, conferences, or otherwise!Show lessamarolover88
Developer Response
Hello amarolover88, Thank you so much for the fantastic review! We're thrilled to hear that Listening.com has had such a positive impact on your life and that you're finding it useful in both Spanish and English. We really appreciate you pointing out the issue with words starting with "th"—your suggestion is super valuable, and we’ll definitely have our team take a closer look at it. Feel free to get in touch with us at support@listening.com if you need any help as you continue to enjoy Listening. We’re always eager to improve and make your experience even better!Great app
Sometimes it incorrectly pronounces a word, misses some letters on a word. I listened to a paper where it pronounced first as ir s t multiple times through the paper. Otherwise it is great. I cannot read a whole paper as I fall asleep, but I can listen and read along or take notes.Whatadbarkle
Developer Response
Hello Whatadbarkle, Thank you so much for your feedback! We’re thrilled to hear that you’re enjoying the app and finding it helpful for reading along and taking notes. We’re sorry about the pronunciation issues you experienced. We’re always working on improving our text-to-speech accuracy, and your input helps us a lot. If you encounter any more issues or have suggestions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our support team at support@listening.com. We're here to help!Not as advertised
I don’t even know where to start with the deception. First, the voices that read the PDFs are not the ones that you “choose from” in the beginning. They sounded like traditional robotic voices, not the advertised AI enhanced voices. Then, I had the hardest time getting the voice to change. When I figured out that I had to go to a desktop to see the voices in settings, the audio still didn’t change until I uploaded another PDF. Second, everyone talks about how great this app is because it’s different from others in how it recognizes what is relevant, but it doesn’t. It still reads some headers/footers and page numbers. Third, it skips over large chunks of text making listening irrelevant if I’m missing half of what I need to hear.Show lessHonestly….
Developer Response
Hello Honestly…., we appreciate your feedback! I’m really sorry to hear about the issues you’ve experienced with our app. It’s important to us that you have a positive experience, and I appreciate you bringing these concerns to our attention. We’re working hard to make sure that we improve the options users have for the AI-enhanced voices. We'd like to note that changes to the voice settings will only apply to new uploads. If you’d like the documents you’ve already uploaded to be read in the new voice, you’ll need to re-upload them. Regarding text recognition, we’re continually improving how our app handles headers, footers, and page numbers. We're releasing an improvement in a few weeks that should help to improve this. We’d also love to help you troubleshoot the issue with certain sections being skipped. Please feel free to reach out to our support team at support@listening.com, and we’d be happy to look into this for you. Thank you for your patience and for helping us improve our service. We look forward to assisting you!