The phrase "asked to listen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a request or instruction for someone to pay attention or hear something.
Example: "During the meeting, everyone was asked to listen carefully to the presentation."
Alternatives: "requested to hear" or "instructed to pay attention".
The audience was asked to listen.
The Haggler asked to listen to a recording of that conversation.
When I asked to listen in, the organizers hesitated; these are colleagues around a conference table, they pointed out.
In one study, for instance, subjects were asked to listen to recordings of people supposedly saying disparaging things about them.
For a moment there I thought we were being seriously asked to listen to Ashley Cole's discourse on historiography.
So the Haggler asked to listen to the tape of the Bendors' conversation with that Vantage agent in February 2008.
Then for 90 minutes, the doctors were given MP3 devices and asked to listen to five common heart murmurs 400 times.
In the two weeks since deliberations began on the fate of Mr. Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group co-founder, jurors have not asked to listen to tapes more than once a day, if at all.
In a 1992 study at Duke Medical Center, a leading teaching hospitals, 63 residents in internal medicine were asked to listen to three common heart murmurs programmed into a mannequin.
Asked to listen to Mr. Salama's latest CD, Peter Cooper, a country music performer who reviews the music for The Tennessean of Nashville, said the album combined thoughtful lyrics with a strong voice.
In an experiment carried out by Sanford DeVoe and Julian House at the University of Toronto, two different groups of people were asked to listen to the same passage of music the first 86 seconds of "The Flower Duet" from the opera "Lakmé".
