Here are steps on how to use ElevenLabs smartphone app to listen to articles.

Sometimes you may just want to listen to an article rather than read it. You can do that via the Elevenlabs smartphone app, as seen in the (silent) video attached. 

Steps to take:

Step 1: Go to whatever app store you use for your phone
Step 2: Search for Elevenlabs
Step 3: The search will locate an app called "ElevenReader."
Step 4: Install the app on your phone
Step 5: Open the app
Step 6: Hit the + button at the bottom of your phone screen when the app is opened
Step 7: Hit the "Paste Link" button
Step 8: Paste the link of whatever article you want read to you
Step 9: Hit "Next" (the black button with the headphones)
Step 10: The article will come up. Click the "Listen" button on the upper right hand corner
Step 11: Listen as a voice reads the article to you (you can even select the type of voice you want)

Note that I take these steps in the attached video. Just download the mp4 video and run it on whatever media player you use. 

This is the example article I used: https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human-cognition-atrophied-and-unprepared-3/

As just a side note, the article reports that if you use AI in the wrong ways, it can actually harm your critical thinking capabilities. That's a good warning as we all learn how to use AI better. We should use it but not let it do our thinking for us. AIs have many strengths but they ultimately can't replace the human element (at least for now). So, we should beware of outsourcing all our thinking to it. AI is used to augment but not replace brain power.

Last note: ElevenLabs has a website so you can use it on your PC or laptop, but it doesn't have all the same features as the app. Go to: https://elevenlabs.io/