Listen to research papers, without the [13]s.
Yapify reads a paper aloud, word for word, and passes over the citations, footnotes and tables while you listen. They stay on the page, dimmed. Tap one to hear it anyway.
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1 Introduction
Recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory [13] and gated recurrent [7] neural networks in particular, have been firmly established as state of the art approaches in sequence modeling and transduction problems such as language modeling and machine translation [35, 2, 5]. Numerous efforts have since continued to push the boundaries of recurrent language models and encoder-decoder architectures [38, 24, 15].
The app's own voice, on “Attention Is All You Need”. Tap a dimmed citation to hear it anyway.
Seven things it can pass over.
One switch for each, all on to start. Yapify still keeps all of it: skipped parts are dimmed in the text, and a tap plays them. Try the switches: the paragraph above follows them.
Skip while listening
Skip all
Everything below
Footnotes
Notes at the foot of a page
Tables
Every row of a table
Figures and code
Text inside figures, code listings
Captions
“Figure 2: Scaled dot-product attention.”
Citations and references
(Vaswani et al., 2017) · [12] · (Fig. 3)
Web and e-mail addresses
example.com · name@example.com
Paper front matter
Affiliations, “Received…”, keywords
As in the app: Menu › Skip while listening
Never read aloud.
The reference list and the table of contents are left out of the audio altogether. Every sentence of the argument is in it.
References
Not readContents
Not readStudy while you listen.
- Select a line to highlight it, in one of five colours. It keeps reading.
- Add a note. The reading waits while you write.
- Find every highlight and note in one list, and play from any of them.
Got lecture slides as well? Listen to those too.
Questions, answered.
Does it summarise the paper?
No. It reads every sentence, word for word. Only what you switch on in Skip while listening is passed over, and it's still there to tap.
Where do I get the paper from?
Download the PDF from your library, the journal or a preprint site, then open it in Yapify with + › Choose a PDF.
Does it work with scanned papers?
Yes. Pages that are only a picture of text are read too.
Can I listen offline?
Yes. Download the paper and it plays without a connection, with the screen locked.
Is it free?
Yes, to start: about 3.5 hours of listening a month, enough for around five 15-page papers. Yapify Plus gives about 35 hours.
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