Ausum

Ausum

Turn any article into a short audio summary, with just one click.

What is Ausum?
Ausum is a unique Chrome extension that transforms any online article into a short audio summary. It employs smart summarization technology to extract and highlight the most important points, offering you an instant and improved reading experience. By removing ads and distractions, it provides a clean, ad-free user interface. Ausum also supports downloading of audio summaries for offline usage. Sharing of summaries is simple and easy, making Ausum an ideal assistant for reading news, research papers, reports, and more. No sign-up process ensures it's always just a click away.
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Stats
Users: 1,000+
Rating: 5.00 (8)
Version: 0.0.9 (Last updated: 2021-06-23)
Creation date: 2021-06-04
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • tabs
Size: 8.12K
URLs: Website
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Summary

Ausum is a free Chrome extension that turns every article into a short audio summary, with just one click. When you find an article you want to summarize, just click the Ausum icon and listen to the summary, instantly.

  • No Sign-Up Required: getting an audio summary is always a click away.
  • Avoid Ads: avoid all the distractions and annoying ads on the article, with a better, cleaner experience
  • Instant Smart Summaries: smart summarization technology ensures you get the most important, accurate highlights of any story.
  • Save Time: with audio, you’re free to do other tasks, listen while walking, or deep-diving the web.
  • Download Audio Summaries: all your articles so you could listen anytime, anywhere
  • Natural Voice: high-quality text-to-speech technology, for a natural listening experience.
  • Share: share summaries with others.

Ausum turns text into lifelike speech. Users can automatically summarize any webpage into audio, as you browse. With just one click, Ausum generates a summary including the important ideas and facts of any long article, research report, document, essay into a downloadable recording you could take with you. Save time and read smarter, with audio. Next time you’re reading the news, science research journals, health reports, or sports analysis… Ausum will convert all your long text into a short-form audio summary so you can listen for the most important, accurate highlights. We are constantly optimizing and improving our text to audio summary extension, so if you see bugs or have suggestions to make Ausum better, please don't hesitate to provide feedback.

User reviews
Wow! I am surprised how well this works! It is very easy to use and works beautifully!
by Cindy Bahl (Cindy) Cindy Bahl (Cindy), 2022-09-22

One of the biggest problems with the web, is that we're constantly bombarded with information. If you're anyone like me, it's impossible to retain information, get through all the articles I want to read, and get overwhelmed very easily. Innately, I'm a multi-tasker, so when I discovered Ausum, I was pretty shocked by the accuracy, natural voiceover, and ease of use (no onboarding/signup.)

Ugh! Finally, something that helps me make sense of long articles. Ausum generates the key point and the gist of the article without all the extra fluff. There are other summarizing tools out there, but with this, I could actually listen to on my runs in the morning - easiest way to read articles.
by Arpine Hovhannisyan Arpine Hovhannisyan, 2021-06-09
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Safety
Risk impact

Ausum may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

Ausum has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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