Listening: Text to Speech

James Pankaew

In-app purchases

About this app

Turn academic papers, PDFs, and web pages into audio. Take notes with one click. Choose which sections you want to listen to.

Everything is narrated using a lifelike, human sounding voice.

It's quick and easy. Give it a try today!

[Minimum supported app version: 2.2.25]

Ratings and reviews

A few common and annoying issues: 1. Pronounces hyphenated words in PDF papers weirdly (e.g. "guid-ed" becomes "gooey-did"). 2. Still includes citations in voice recordings (e.g. "Russel et al., 2019" is spoken). 3. Occasionally adds spaces between letters of every word and pronounces the word as individual letters (e.g., "l e t t e r s"). 4. Will only let me upload PDFs, but not links to papers, even with institutional access.

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.

It works well but has some problems. The Ai does a good job of pronouncing every word and the voice sounds natural. But when PDFs download its doesn't notice the sections and will often break up words and sentences so the the Ai speaks that broken word weirdly. Sometimes the app will think figure legends or footnotes are part of the paper and read it. The Ai reading is much better than other text to speech apps I've used.

What's new

* New PDF view
* New Audio Download settings
* New Background Download settings
* Improved downloading functionality
* Bug fixes