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Stumbles on common words and punctuation
As others have said, trying to listen to a research article will melt your brain, as it struggles with acronyms and science words, but I found the mispronunciation of common words even more jarring. And the voice often places emphasis on unexpected parts of sentences. Deleted the app during the trial.Show lessphantomsofsublimity
Great for folks with chronic headache
Listening.io is excellent. Easy to use. Perfect if you have any chronic health issues that limit the amount of time you can tolerate looking at a screen.VYCanada
Not good enough for the price
Pros:
-groups academic article sections
-allows you to skip a section
-very lifelike voice
Cons:
-only one voice
-grouped my text into strange chunks that then made it break up a single sentence into multiple sentences
Ultimately, the incapability of the app to process my text correctly made it useless.
It was. As though I was reading the. Text in such. A way. That it sounded like. This paragraph. If you. We’re to read it following. The punctuation. It. Made it so chunked. Up that it. Took more time to. Mentally. Process what was being said than it. Would have taken. To just read. It.
The AI voice is so good it adds incredibly accurate infection and tone, but when this is combined with the weird chunking it just adds even more confusion.
Imagine if? Every sentence was broken. Up like the ones above but. You also used. The. Correct inflections and tone, going up and. Down. At the appropriate times in. The sentence but? The words aren’t matching so. You can’t use the tonal cues. That we. Sometimes. Rely on to. Help our brains process. Information. Faster.
If this was free I’d be incredibly pleased. Personally, I can’t justify the price with these issues. I can get a free app that will have a more robotic voice but at least read the sentences in a useful way.Show lessVEEsser
Fantastic!
Listening to weekly reading material for uni through my headphones at work has made life ridiculously easier.Axeow
PhD students rejoice!
Excellent app, would give 5 stars if I could still see the amount of total time listening to each audio file takes like in pervious versions. That feature is key!jbonevan
single voice
It’s similar to other text to speech nothing different and only single voice no reason to download 🤦♂️DHUN PATEL
Expensive & Doesn’t Work
It wouldn’t process my pdfs plus I can have my work read aloud in other apps for less.tsparry
NO WAY TO CANCEL
I canceled my subscription a month ago because the service is no different than the free stuff out there… but I’m still being charged. Now there is no way to log into my account online. I’ve been trying for days from different browsers but they have turned the log in email/password page into a hoax you literally can not log in to.Show lesskninjaaaa
Still work to be done
I was excited, but quickly lost faith when the app read the header and other extra information. I heard the DOI read a few times, completely destroying at coherent thoughts. A bit hard to navigate (e.g. pausing and trying to visually skim the text in the previous sentence/paragraph was impossible). Would be nice to have the original pdf loaded in the app for glancing at figures and tables. I’ll check back in a few months/year.Show lessderpity derp donkey
Love This App, Can’t Wait to See it Keep Getting Better
This has made reading articles and papers for school so much easier. Would love to see new features like grouping audio files into folders, a search feature to check through files, and the ability to take voice notes as you listen (and better note taking in general)
Highly recommend this app!DaveFromEarlier
