Listening: Text to Speech 4+
Read aloud PDFs & websites
The Listening App Inc.
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Turn academic papers, PDFs, web pages, and articles into audio.
Take notes on key ideas with one click. Select which sections to listen to.
An A.I. voice that sounds so lifelike and human, you can barely tell it's digital!
It's quick and easy. Give it a try today!
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What’s New
Version 2.2.26
* Improved offline functionality
* Improved downloading functionality
* Various design & UX improvements
Ratings and Reviews
Handy App
This is a really handy app for articles that are better to listen to rather than read. The voice is clear and easy to understand, no issues there.
It would be nice if there was an option to remove downloads in case you download the same article twice, for example.
Overall, if you prefer listening to articles or documents, then is is a great app to get.
Great idea but too buggy
It’s a great idea in concept but the problems I’m consistently having are:
1) The app does not do a good job of splitting the file into chapters. Even when I upload a file that has chapter headings ‘chapter 1:… chapter 2:…’
2) About 5 minutes into listening I will consistently have the audio cut off and say that it is loading and shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes but I just have to close down the app after about 5 mins and try another day. This makes it impossible to listen to papers like a podcast which is the whole point.
If this app worked properly it would be a must have for students and academics.
Really handy but scope for improvement
This is a really useful app and I am enjoying it but there are some issues that I hope the team look into, namely:
1) all of the AI voices seem to be male - some diversity here would be good (I may have missed this option)
2) the file tagging isn’t very smooth or efficient - it would be good if the system remembered tag titles and colours for applying to other files.
3) Having the option to organise files into folders would also be useful
4) The AI voice has been pretty good in my experience but does occasionally mispronounce scientific and technical terms. The advertisement says this is easily remedied but there isn’t an easy flagging system other than emailing them.
5) The conversion occasionally misses lines or creates odd sentence structure - possibly due to positioning in the PDF? I have noticed this most around changes in page and column.
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Information
- Provider
- The Listening App Inc.
- Size
- 138.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Listening App Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Unlimited Listening, Monthly £12.99
- Unlimited Listening, Monthly £19.99
- Unlimited Listening, Monthly £12.99
- Unlimited Listening, Yearly £129.99
- Unlimited Listening, Monthly £19.99
- Unlimited Listening, Yearly £99.99
- Unlimited Listening, Yearly £119.99
- Unlimited Listening, Yearly £99.99
- Unlimited Listening, Monthly £24.99
- Unlimited Listening, Yearly £99.99