Abstract. Following Mark Kac, it is said that a geometric property of a compact Riemannian manifold can be heard if it can be determined from the eigenvalue spectrum of the associated Laplace operator on functions. On the other hand, D'Atri spaces, manifolds of type A, probabilistic commutative spaces, C-spaces, TC-spaces, and GC-spaces have been studied by many authors as symmetric-like Riemannian manifolds. In this paper, we prove that for closed Riemannian manifolds, none of the properties just mentioned can be heard. Another class of interest is the class of weakly symmetric manifolds. We consider the local version of this property and show that weak local symmetry is another inaudible property of Riemannian manifolds.