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Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by beaconstudios »

renato_casutt wrote: post #15
dotancohen wrote: post #10

I'm amazed at how much clearer the bionic-highlighted text is. For me the big difference was in first-pass comprehension, not speed. The website needs more attention to detail, this typo is one of the first things a visitor sees: > We humans store learned words and so just a few letters are enough to ecognize whole words.

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry for the error. My english is not so good. Can you write me the sentence 100% correctly? That would be very kind of you.

The sentence is perfectly fine, you just missed the "r" in "recognize".

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by pxeger1 »

This does indeed seem to work for me, but the repeated emphasis on the patents and trademarks makes me suspicious. It looks like a company who cares much more about patent royalties than about their invention - whom I would never be willing to give my money to. Having seen the principle, I could write a browser extension in an hour. I suppose I'll have to wait 25 years (or whatever the French patent expiry length is), though.

If you want to read the patent (in French), it's here: https://data.inpi.fr/brevets/FR3052587. I couldn't find the German patent (10 2017 112 916.2), but I'm guessing it's the same substance.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by xupybd »

We were taught "speed reading" in my first year of an electronics diploma. This feels very similar. I found speed reading only good for searching through text. Comprehension and memory goes out the window when I try it. If I want to get information in fast text to speech at 4x speed is more effective.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by renato_casutt »

beaconstudios wrote: post #21
renato_casutt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry for the error. My english is not so good. Can you write me the sentence 100% correctly? That would be very kind of you.

The sentence is perfectly fine, you just missed the "r" in "recognize".

thank you so much...fixed

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by cpfohl »

hugh-avherald wrote: post #20
renato_casutt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for your feedback. Sorry for the error. My english is not so good. Can you write me the sentence 100% correctly? That would be very kind of you.

ecognize -> recognize (Though I'm not sure if the typo was intentional.)

I had assumed it was intentional:

Mch lk n cn rd wtht vwls.

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by loa_in_ »

doctoboggan wrote: post #17

There is a similar technology that flashes the words in place as you read. I remember it making the rounds a few years ago. https://spritz.com/

There's also spreeder on Android in similar spirit which I found useful to read web content. The downside is I have to copy and paste it from the browser

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by renato_casutt »

thom wrote: post #12

I normally have to make a conscious effort to speed read so this is intriguing. I’ve had a lot of success with Edge’s reader mode with verbs and nouns highlighted in different colours.

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, this version of Bionic Reading is the beginning of the reading mode. Of course there are ways to structure the word types as well as the syllables.

Its the BR verion1

Re: Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

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Post by Nowado »

Surprisingly pleasant. I haven't speed read in a while, but this felt better than highlighting text, or centering word on screen (although those work better with audio support, but I guess that could be mixed together).

Few questions:

From what I understand BR figures out 'what part of the word is unique enough to be a good enough approximation of the word'. Is this somewhat context aware or generic (with parameters available for developer)?

How focused are you on iOS?

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