Audio flashcards: study without looking at a screen
Most flashcard time dies in the gaps of the day — the commute, the walk, the dishes. Audio flashcards turn those gaps into repetitions: the app reads the question, pauses, then reads the answer, and your deck keeps moving whether or not your hands or eyes are free.
How Listen mode works
VoiceCards reads each card aloud with natural text-to-speech: question first, an adjustable pause to recall the answer in your head (or out loud), then the answer. You control the pause length, the reading speed, and the voice — questions and answers can even use two different voices in the same language, so your ears always know which side is playing.
Playback continues with the screen locked or while you use other apps, with controls on the lock screen — the same way a podcast app behaves. Already-played audio is cached on your device, so repeating a deck on the subway works offline and costs nothing extra.
Listening is half of it — speaking closes the loop
Passive listening builds familiarity; recall builds memory. When you can look at the screen, switch to Speak mode: the app shows the question, you say the answer out loud, and speech recognition checks it against your sheet in real time. Alternating listen-on-the-go with speak-at-home is the pattern our heaviest users settle into.
Any content can become an audio course
Decks live in your own Google Sheet, so anything you can put in two columns becomes audio: vocabulary lists, exam questions, definitions, scripture, lines for a play. Or skip the typing — the built-in AI turns a topic prompt, photos of a textbook, or a PDF up to 40 MB into a ready deck you can start listening to in about a minute.
What it costs
Listening with your device's built-in voices is free, with no subscription. Natural premium voices use credits (packs from $9.99, one-time, regionally priced), and because audio is cached, replaying a deck you've already heard doesn't consume more.
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