Umano Automatically Converts Article to Voice for More Traffic

I discovered an interesting new app recently that automatically converts your articles to voice and can potentially drive even more traffic to your site. The app is called Umano and it literally takes just seconds to use. It can be used from your web browser or mobile phone.

How It Works

Basically, Umano hires narrators to read articles and convert them into voice. This format allows people to listen to articles instead of read them.

As a user, you can sign up on their site and download either a mobile phone app or web based extension. I downloaded the Chrome extension and when you click on the button, it will allow you to convert the article that you are viewing to voice.

One of Umano’s narrators will then read the article and record it. The article will then be added to your playlist where you can listen to it.

Generate More Traffic

I recently published an article on LinkedIn that called “Is College a Waste of Money” that got over 4,000 views and was featured on the Pulse. The folks at Umano found it and one of their narrators converted it into voice.

Each recording is also posted on their website so that people browsing on the web can listen as well. I got an additional 3,000 views from Umano’s voice transcription of my article:

https://umano.me/c/LgyrZ/is-college-a-waste-of-money

These short audio articles can be a great convenience for people that are commuting or would rather listen to articles than read them.

Umano gives articles extra exposure in a couple of ways that I can see. First, popular articles get featured on the home page where people looking for new content can listed to your article.

Secondly, below the comments section of each article, they also display related articles. So when people are finished listening to your article, they can find other articles they might also want to listen to.

How Much Work Is It?

It appears that all you have to do is download the web app and click the button when you find a good article that you want converted to audio.

They took care of everything else, including creating the web page and transcribing the article. If you want, you can even imbed the downloaded audio on your own website for your own visitors.

This is a neat free app that is easy to use that could generate more traffic to your site. They also have a premium version for $3.99 per month that allows unlimited downloads and playlist size as well as allowing you to listen offline.

I plan on doing some experiments with this app and will write more later.