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 of my money, in return for nothing, despite many wasted hours of attempts to resolve it. If this isn't a robbery, then what is it? I REGRET EVER SUBSCRIBING TO THIS AND WOULD WARN OTHERS NOT TO TRY!
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 describing formulas and pictures would be useful to, so still ways to go.
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 confirmation email. I was told I would receive a full refund in 5 to 7 business days. I have yet to receive the refund and have now opened a charge dispute with my bank. Total rip-off.
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 development ever!
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. Definitely give this app a try!
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 would be very helpful. Forcing PC use to upload PDFs is a bit ridiculous since phones have the ability to manage files. Especially considering that on the go nature of this app.
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 world is tired of subscriptions. if you gave a month or so trial and then asked me to pay like $50 flat rate I would probably consider it, but as is absolutely not
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 to *also* go in to your Google Play account and unsubscribe there. If your target market is broke and stressed-out grad students, you should prioritize making unsubscribing easy.
