Log in issues
Speech is great and affordable! However it logs you out too often, which is especially a pain on desktop
Cool
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Are you listening?
If not, then you should be. I have tried several similar apps, but always come back to this one. It’s super intuitive and is a joy to use. The people behind it are great and so is the apps future, it’s only going to get better! The developer is constantly honing and improving what by any standard is already a killer app! Their customer service is second to none also!
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Update Cancelled my Subscription
I paid for a year-long membership but after updating the app, it says I no longer have a subscription and it’s asking me to pay again. Scam
iOS app is useless. Only the web app works
I upload a file from the iOS app. The uploader just keeps spinning. And nothing shows up on the iOS app. Then I check the web app and only there I see the audio. When I come back to iOS app, nothing is synced between web app and iOS app. Pretty much a useless app. Need to get my money back.
Response from developer
Hi Thyag Sundaramoorthy! We’re really sorry for the frustration, that’s definitely not the experience we want you to have. We’ve recently released an update that fixes syncing and upload issues. Please try uninstalling and reinstalling the app, everything should be working now. If not, reach out to us at support@listening.com and we’ll help right away.
It worked Great Until it didn’t work at all!
Going to school and having to read 3-4 professional article a week this was great. And then nothing blank screen, won’t open, or when it did couldn’t access my drive to upload a new article. And now nothing nothing.
Year subscription and can’t do anything about it! And boy do I feel silly cause I must have referred 20 people to this app before it went bad!
Year subscription and can’t do anything about it! And boy do I feel silly cause I must have referred 20 people to this app before it went bad!
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Barely usable
App does not perform properly with basic functions. Hit or miss with actually converting to audio. Then the obstacle course to actually go through with subscription cancellation is just scam tactics. I always think of my grandparents with things like this - hoping they never sign up for these manipulative platforms 😔
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Not worth the money, only white voices??
I was deciding between this and speechify, and I did end up going with listening because of the lower price. Speechify was appealing because of its celebrity voices, which would be familiar and more theatrical readers, but I figured that was something I could give up. Listening has many voices to choose from- but turns out I’m not a huge fan of any of them. Exclusively white profiles, all American accents plus a few British. Thought that was pretty weird, and disappointed I didn’t notice that before I bought my subscription. The voices are alright but honestly still a bit too robotic for my liking. Horrible pronunciation of any non English words, I was mostly using the app for my readings in my Modern Art in Mexico class, and the pronunciation of Spanish words was just awful. Not to mention it would always read the words at the header of every page, usually the title and author of the article, which was annoying. Besides that, the app is alright, easy to import PDFs and quick to upload. I do regret the purchase though, wish I spent a little bit more on speechify instead.
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Fake issue* off line
Several months the app started crashing and started working weird. It said that it is an “off line, please reconnect and try again”, that files taken forever to upload and get stock at 90%. Don’t waste your time and money
Do NOT purchase!!!!!!
One of the buggiest apps I’ve ever used. Somehow worked fine until I got the subscription. It crashes constantly so I’ve repeatedly had to delete and redownload. Randomly pauses as it’s reading, even if you download the document, but it keeps going as soon as you click the next word so clearly it’s not a buffering issue, just a bug. It takes forever to upload documents (if it works at all, which it doesn’t always). No way to stop it from reading the header of each page so you hear the title of the book or article every page. No way to fix mispronunciation, you can flag it but nothing happens so you’ll hear the same word or name mispronounced over and over. Just avoid at all costs.
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A very disappointing experience for a paid product
I was auto-renewed, and my account clearly showed an active paid subscription on the website. However, when I tried to use a basic premium feature—1.5× playback speed—the app claimed I was not on a premium plan.
Customer service was unavailable during the advertised support hours. After some time, I was told that a support ticket had been opened.
After I submitted my review, customer service contacted me and informed me that my subscription had actually expired. I was mistaken in assuming my plan was active because the website still shows my subscription as active. Based on this update, I am revising my review.
Customer service was unavailable during the advertised support hours. After some time, I was told that a support ticket had been opened.
After I submitted my review, customer service contacted me and informed me that my subscription had actually expired. I was mistaken in assuming my plan was active because the website still shows my subscription as active. Based on this update, I am revising my review.
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A very disappointing experience for a paid product
I was auto-renewed and my account clearly shows an active paid subscription on their website. Yet when I try to use a basic premium feature — 1.5x playback speed— the app claims I’m not on a premium plan.
Their customer service is offline during advertised hours. Eventually I was told that a ticket had been opened.
Their customer service is offline during advertised hours. Eventually I was told that a ticket had been opened.
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It crashes whenever I try to log in
The technology itself is great, the app glitching is infuriating. So far I’m tied to my laptop because it has yet to work on my phone. As soon as I log in, it starts to load my account (I can usually see it for a half second) and the flashes back to the front page with the message “subscription required.” Since I have a subscription and it’s clearly even starting to load, this is very annoying.
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Glitchy and no support
This ap is incredibly glitchy, periodically does not open at all and frequently has errors in uploading simple documents. Not worth the money.
Very Upsetting
I payed for a year to help me learn with my schooling. It currently skips and doesn't register many lines and words. I tried to put in a help request online and it didn't even give a button to send it once you were done filling it out.
Great for listening to research papers
Love this app been super convenient to listen to papers I’ve been interested in. Been having to this past week delete and redownload it because of some losding issue. Send me to a blank screen. Could be I need to update my phone. But the app itself has veen a blessing for what I’m able to do with it.
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This app is a headache now!
This app recently became a headache. It doesn’t work at all. This is my fourth time deleting it and reinstalling back so that I can fix the problem and to get use it. But after each time, it stopped working as you open it. There is nothing but a white screen. I have annual subscription and has been using it for years. But currently it’s so frustrating…
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App regularly breaks
Don’t get bamboozled. I need a screen reader for my dyslexia and had hoped AI would make things easier with more life like voices. I got sucked into their 12 month plan only to discover the app regularly had to be deleted and reloaded because it’ll just stop working. Major aspects of the UI don’t work, specifically when trying to upload documents. Why does it keep failing to upload after 30%? Not a clue. Why does it work on my iPhone but not my iPad when it’s the same app? Smh
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Blank Screen
I love this app, but lately it has been giving only a blank screen. It’s as if it’s irreversibly crashed. I have to go to an internet app to go to the Listening website to listen to my materials. I recently paid for the year subscription, and honestly, that’s where the app started being inoperable for me. I submitted a help ticket but haven’t received a response yet.
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FIX THE UPDATE
I just did the latest update and now the app doesn’t even work? I open it and it’s just a black screen??? i’ve uninstalled in and reinstalled it and restarted my phone
