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

Good idea but barely usable. My files all contain awkward mid sentence pauses in every single sentence that disrupt the flow of what I am listening to. The voice change feature does not work at all. The app cannot be closed and restarted in any normal way - when it bugs out, which it does often, I have to force stop the app. Then it logs me out and won't let me log back in. So then I have to Uninstall the app. Total nightmare - will not pay for this in its current state.

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 do than with reading). I would suggest perhaps removing the reference numbers, it is distracting while listening. Otherwise, I like where this is going! Thank you!

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 of my text books and articles so I can hear them on my long commute, but this app has a long way to go.

What's new

* Improved offline functionality
* Improved downloading functionality
* Various design & UX improvements