Listening.com is a Chrome extension that allows users to save any web page as an audio and listen to it in the browser or on their Android, iPhone, or tablet device. It provides a convenient way to listen to papers anywhere.
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This Listening.com browser extension is a simple tool for saving any web page, and turning it into audio.
You can listen to the audio in the Chrome Extension's "Listen" tab, or you can listen on your Android, iPhone, or tablet device.
Clicking the Chrome Extension's icon will pop up the Chrome Extension modal, which allows you to convert the current tab to audio.
The converted audios are saved to your Listening.com account. Users who aren't logged in will be taken to a login or registration page.
User reviews
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Pros
Natural-sounding voice
Correctly filters out irrelevant information
Useful concept and general premise
Cons
Documents don't load or fail on certain platforms
Technical issues with audio quality and structure
Customer service response is inadequate
Most mentioned
Needs improvement in pronunciation and audio flow
Issues with account management and login procedures
Promise of product improvement based on customer feedback
User reviews
I just tried it out today.
The voice is very natural-sounding and pleasant. It correctly filters out irrelevant information such as references and notes etc.
However, at least from what I experienced on the papers that I converted, the produced audio suffers from some issues that made it hard to understand the structure both at the sentence level and at the section level.
For instance, it seems to systematically treat the hyphen as a long dash, thus marking a pause in the middle of compound word, which is very annoying as it breaks the flow of the sentence.
On the other hand, it does not mark a pause after reading the title of a section, jumping directly to the first sentence of that section.
It also fails to make appearant that something is between parentheses, so it's difficult to know what the main point is and what is mere detail.
For those reasons unless these issues are addressed, I don't think I will use it past the trial period as the price is rather high
You can not login if you made your listening.com account by linking it to your google account. You also can not use the "forgot your password" or create an account button.