Listen to OpenReview Papers
Turn any OpenReview submission into audio. Open it in Chrome, click CastReader, and listen through the abstract and author info. Perfect for triaging conference backlogs.
Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization
L2 regularization and weight decay regularization are equivalent for standard stochastic gradient descent, but not for adaptive gradient methods such as Adam. We propose a simple modification to recover the original formulation of weight decay and empirically show that it substantially improves generalization across a wide range of deep learning tasks.
Forum pages — title, authors, abstract read through, reviewer thread skipped for MVP
Why Listen to OpenReview with CastReader?
Conference season drops hundreds of papers in days. Triage them with your ears.
Conference Ready
Works on NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, and More
OpenReview hosts submissions for most top ML venues. CastReader reads the abstract, authors, and keywords cleanly so you can decide which PDFs to open.
Clean Audio
Abstract First, Not Nav Chrome
OpenReview is a React SPA with lots of UI chrome — status badges, review tabs, author affiliation popups. CastReader skips the chrome and reads the paper itself.
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Paragraph Highlighting
Each paragraph highlights as it's read. Useful when you want to revisit a specific abstract claim while listening.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything about listening to OpenReview with CastReader
How do I listen to an OpenReview paper?
Open the paper's forum page on openreview.net in Chrome (URL looks like openreview.net/forum?id=xxxx). Click the CastReader icon and it starts reading. Wait ~2 seconds on first load — OpenReview is a React SPA and the abstract hydrates after the initial render.
Does it read the full PDF or just the abstract?
OpenReview typically shows the abstract, authors, keywords, and reviews on the forum page — CastReader reads those. For the full paper body, download the PDF and use our /listen-to-pdf page or the CastReader desktop app.
Does it read reviewer comments?
Not by default. The forum page has nested review threads with lots of UI chrome. We read the paper metadata (abstract, authors, keywords) cleanly. Review reading is planned for a future release.
Which conferences are supported?
Any venue on openreview.net — NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, COLT, RLC, TMLR, and many workshops. If it shows as /forum?id=... on openreview.net, CastReader handles it.
What about non-English papers?
Most OpenReview submissions are English. If a paper is in another language, CastReader auto-detects and picks a matching AI voice from 40+ languages.
Is it free? Any limits?
Completely free with no limits. No account needed. CastReader is a free browser extension for Chrome and Edge.
Can I adjust reading speed?
Yes. 0.5x through 3x supported. Speed up when triaging a long poster list, slow down for the one abstract you actually care about.
Is my reading data private?
Text is sent to our voice API for TTS synthesis. We don't track which papers you read and don't store text beyond the request lifecycle.
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