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In my experience, papers formatted in two columns are not parsed correctly and the transcript reads directly across the page, skipping from column to column. As this layout is very common in academic papers, it really limits the PDFs that are usable in Audemic.

It has been like this for hours

Several papers have transitioned from the end of a page to the second column of the next page. Seems to be after giving an http address. It's very confusing and hard to folli. I don't see an option to manually fix it either.

Most of the time, on my phone or laptop, it won't let me select to add a highlighted citation to a board I have already created, which means I have multiple boards named "Fatigue." Because of this glitch, I would love to be able to switch where a citation is located in one folder to another so they are all in the same folder.

Often the PDF files I upload are not correctly parsed into their sections. Sometimes a random heading is converted into a section and I would like to be able to embed it back into its correct section. This is especially true in the results section.

Same can be said for in depth results especially related to figures or tables. When I am listening often I am not looking directly at the table so the descriptions are meaningless. Likewise what takes 5-10 min for machine to read I can understand (assuming well designed figures) in a matter of seconds.

Specifically for for computer science research papers.

I paid for a yearly subscription with the hope that more voices and customization would be added. However, I can no longer use the service because the current voices are way too monotonous and unexpressive. It's hard to focus on the details, especially when the papers are long. I have tried read aloud features in other system...

I can understand subheadings like 'introduction' or 'results' not being read aloud (although I would personally prefer if they were read), but some papers, eg "Herbst et al. 2022, 3D profiling of mouse epiphyses across ages reveals new potential imaging biomarkers of early spontaneous osteoarthritis" (open access) contain Res...

Add Figures within and Latex Math to the text view

I encounter many sentences in the papers I read that include an author's name as part of the text (e.g. Name and Name (2019) described the phenomena as unexpected.) - the voice skips reading anything that looks like a reference or in-text citation, so all I hear is "described the phenomena as unexpected." without the importan...

It would be awesome if we could see the highlights on the screen itself while listening to the article like we are reading and highlighting on the pdf

I haven't been using this for that long, but I have already noticed some mispronunciations. For example, the abbreviation for Ancient DNA is aDNA and is being verbalized as an entire word instead of a-DNA. The word allele and all variations of the word (ie allelic, alleles, etc) are also being mispronounced. Allele is occasio...

Integration to upload papers from Google Drive to Audemic.

Easy accessibility (natural bookmarking): One of my articles stopped a few minutes into the main body (maybe 5 pages?), and just started to express static. When I went out and came back, it started from the beginning, so I gave up.

User feedback

It would be cool to have a place to jot notes within each paper/see highlights individually

read along function not tracking with audio

The in-text citations are now being read and there doesn't appear to be a way to turn this off.

Add half bold in the accessibility fonts. I find it just as useful if not more useful than the dyslexia font