Listening.com

Save time by listening to papers anywhere.

Listening.com: Save Time with Audio Papers

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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Extension stats

Manifest V3
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 3.53
(15)
Version: 1.1.5 (Last updated: 2024-11-25)
Creation date: 2022-07-18
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 356.35K
Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Natural-sounding and pleasant voice
  • Correctly filters out irrelevant information
  • Useful for listening to articles and daily news
  • Responds promptly to customer service inquiries
Cons
  • Issues with document loading and customer service responsiveness
  • Problems with audio clarity and sentence structure
  • Lack of support for non-English languages
  • Cannot log in if account linked to Google
  • Skipping important figures and tables in documents
Most mentioned
  • Audio clarity and structure issues
  • Document loading problems
  • Customer service responsiveness
  • Desire for more features and improvements
  • Natural-sounding voice
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
by Guillaume LE GULUDEC, 2024-10-12

Useless!!!!!! Documents don't load and there is no customer service only email runarounds.
by Robert Davis, 2024-10-04

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.
by Megan Bourque, 2024-09-30
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Listening.com does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • Low Request access to the following domains:
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Risk likelihood analysis details
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