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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.
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.
This is how I speed read for decades (autodidact); I swoop over the page once with my eyes and then just jump over it more or less like they show here. Allows me to read multiple books per day.
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/
Btw spritz is an evil company who bullies software developers with their ridiculous and vague patents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046034
The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…
Because money.
Depends on the quality of the video but can get at least x1.25 and upto x1.75 without my brain frying.
Instead of reading what if this was text->speech at a multiple?
The rules implemented are very simple (taken from the patent application [1], the exact numbers are configurable). If there are 4 letters, 40% of all letters are bold. There is this claim as the first text on the website: We are happy if as many people as possible can use the advantage of Bionic Reading. For this reason, Bionic Reading should be able to be integrated into existing apps and services. The benefit for t…
With the rules it depends on whether it is short, medium or long words. But in principle it is simple.
As simple as we humans read. Eye - brain - representation products (words)
It might help the website more if the testimonials themselves were in the same way.
I trained myself since my time at university to mark important parts in text (either with text marker in a book or with bold typesetting in a digital text).
I then primarily scan only the bold/colored parts and skip over the non marked parts. So my eye/brain jumped from bold letters to bold letters. As these were not full words, I just had gibberish in my head.
Maybe for the untrained reader this might work. I know that I am just anecdata.