Reviews for Listening: Text to Speech

Been blocked from even trying the app despite it stating premium is only needed for unlimited use. Try and click out of the premium offer screen as soon as I open the app and it simply pulls it back up and blocks me from accessing the app at all without buying premium first.

Am I the only one whom this app has never worked for? With 99 days remaining in my annual subscription, I have never been able to listen to even a single sentence! Large files (books) fail to download. Small files (papers) download but fail to play. The only thing that doesn’t fail is the deduction […]

The only actually usable text to speach app. So good job. Mainly the fact that I can upload a bunch of files and then things happen without me having to watch it. There are still a bunch of bugs (failing for some websites, the order being sometimes weird, notifications not dismissable…) and some features for […]

The reader regularly misreads pdf files from journals, putting spaces between letters in words and spelling things out rather than reading the words. I was going to give it another try, but now I can’t login and the forgot password link doesn’t work. These types of problems have occurred regularly.

I downloaded this app for a free trial. I realized this was not the app for me and canceled my free trial. I even received a cancel confirmation email. 14 days later, I was charged $99 by the app service. I contacted customer service, letting them know, as well as a screenshot of the cancelation […]

I’ve never reviewed an app before, but I thought this one was so bad it was worth saying something. The URL function doesn’t work at all. The article sections are not detected. Titles not read. All of the in-text citations are read. The voice is basically Microsoft Sam with no natural sounding flow. Laziest app […]

It can get a little glitchy depending on the format of the article being imported, but in the end Listening has positively impacted the number of articles I’m able to read every day. Sometimes it mispronounces terminology but my research is in a pretty small field, and after submitting a couple reports I’ve seen improvement. […]

This is a great concept but the execution and user experience have much room for improvement. I can elaborate more as I familiarize myself with the app. At the very least there should be a way to rename and organize titles once they are uploaded to the cloud library. Even adding folders for different courses […]

I find it really disingenuous to not make it clear before downloading and signing up that the ONLY way to use this app is paid (and paying a lot- $140 for a year up front, or $240 if you pay monthly. There are lots of free apps that do basically the same thing. the whole […]

Maybe it’s a Samsung compatibility issue, but out of the 10+ times I’ve tried to upload a pdf, one time has worked. My best guess is that it needs to be directly uploaded from your phone rather than from a cloud drive. Also beware, you’ll think you’ve unsubscribed based on the website, but you have […]

I as excited about it initially but it was a disappointment. Absolutely could not read equations, names of molecules, Greek letters. Also, cancelling the subscription is not straight forward. I managed to delete my account 15 days after I created it, but I was still charged the whole $99. I have no idea how to […]

I will definitely stop paying for this app if they don’t fix it soon. When you pause the audiobook, it just restarts and keeps playing even if you unplug the headphones. Even shutting the app down might not stop it from playing. Also, It doesn’t read the sections of PDFs and usually just makes up […]

Reads through journal articles better than any other app, does a great job of removing citations, headers/ footers, and tables. The voices are not perfect but it generally pronounces medical terminology well. I wish I could create a list of acronyms (that come up in my discipline frequently) that it automatically convert to the full […]

great app. definitely the top reader app out there that i’ve tried, much more realistic than other options (but still a ways to go). i haven’t tried longer texts, so can’t speak to others’ complaints about titles etc getting messed up by uploads. i wish there was an option to turn off the follow-along highlight […]

This app destroys the formatting of the document. A paper with subheadings and sections becomes one loooong run-on paragraph. It also can’t skip or separate citations, either. It basically turns a document into a long string of words. It also doesn’t seem to pick up where I leave off. I’d love to have audio version […]

Love using it to read papers and journal articles. The text is often too dense for me and my eyes skip words, making it difficult to understand what I just read. With the app, I can slow down the speed of speech and listen while my visual brain generates images (much easier for me to […]

most time worked well, but often miss-matching text and voice when used offline that making it hard to track the text. After latest update stopped working offline😖 … after several month: I like this app less and less. It makes a long pause sometimes and I am waiting when it resumes again. Sometimes does not […]

I paid for and tried this app but I’m going to need to switch to a better one. It can’t handle big downloads. I wanted it to read a book to me and it would just not download the end of almost every section. My guess is almost a third of the book would just […]

This app has a lot of potential, but it could use some improvements. For one, I constantly have problems with uploading on my phone, paryicularly for larger PDFs. A lot of the time an upload gets stuck at 90% and then eventually fails. A couple times it’s been stuck at 90% then I retry and […]

This could’ve been great. However there is no way to cancel or properly delete a download, so it’s just stuck on your app even if you have ‘deleted’ it. I attempted to convert a PDF and the image quality of my file came out terrible after going through the conversion, and I checked that I […]