Listening: Text to Speech - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

PDF conversion did not work well

It kept missing words and breaking words into parts

A work in progress, not a product yet-cannot deliver for academic purposes

This is an interesting idea. The speed and potentials are great and it could provide great help to academics. However, this is not a final product and it seems to have been rushed into the market. So when it demands pay, it is in effect asking us, the users, to fund the product development. This would have been somewhat acceptable if the product had the bare minimums required for an academic audio app, namely, 1- cross platform or at least cross device sync (the former is non existent and I think the same goes for the latter) 2- export capabilities that make sense for academics (lacking). At the moment it seems out notes marked as notes, without any reference to context. You can see the context on the app in terms of the name of the reference and the paragraph. This is already poor for academic work and adds to rather than reducing the workflow for academic note taking. But upon export, even that already poor contextual info (reference to text location) is lost. 3- reading is glitchy. In many instances it misreads simple words and expressions, let alone more complex, less familiar terms etc. With these shortcomings, the app, in my opinion, is underdeveloped even as a prototype and therefore financialising it is premature.

Buggy and takes too long

Nice idea, but not usable. Uploaded a preprint PDF to this. It took overnight to process it and when it was ready, the text was often corrupted. It seemed to have difficulty distinguishing letters (often in the middle of words) from numbers, which meant the audio was often impossible to follow.

Not quite there but huge potential.

I did a free trial and I think it’s just not quite there. It makes a lot of mistakes which makes it almost impossible to understand and follow properly. For example I tried one pdf and the spacing for the word of was too big for it and it read all of the work O. F instead of of. That interrupted the flow for me. Also if the pdf spacing was smaller it mashed up words so you would have like three words read as one. You end up focusing on those mistakes and then having to follow the text on screen to understand which doesn’t help at all because it defeats the purpose and you can’t concentrate on the content.

Alright App Overpriced

This app is basically not different from anyother text to speech apps. Way overpromised, their website froze when try to login, same happen in app. Overall alright not worth $99/year.

Good for migraine sufferers

I started using this app to help me with grading student assignments because I get bad migraines. I just upload their pdfs and listen to them while reading along on to grade on a paper copy, then I can enter comments and grades later. I normally get migraines every semester when grading but this has saved my brain. Also helpful with literature reviews. The only criticism I have is I wish there were different voice options.

Fantastic!

Listening to weekly reading material for uni through my headphones at work has made life ridiculously easier.

single voice

It’s similar to other text to speech nothing different and only single voice no reason to download 🤦‍♂️

Expensive & Doesn’t Work

It wouldn’t process my pdfs plus I can have my work read aloud in other apps for less.

Potential

The app over promises in relation to what it can do. It’s still glitchy, unable to convert some PDFs, audio conversions disappearing completely from listening playlists. But I hope they fix the glitches as it has potential. I appreciate that the footnotes are not read aloud

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PDF conversion did not work well

A work in progress, not a product yet-cannot deliver for academic purposes

Buggy and takes too long

Not quite there but huge potential.

Alright App Overpriced

Good for migraine sufferers

Fantastic!

single voice

Expensive & Doesn’t Work

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