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I decided to take out a patent a long time ago. Unfortunately I had to make bad experiences, which is why I now want to offer BR as API. 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)
I'm quite certain I could fit BR logic in less than 300 bytes of JS Regex. There is no need for an API here.
As a non native English speaker, this does not work. Maybe because the part of the brain used to read/write/listen/speak a non native language is not the same as a native language. I really feel that I need to focus more while reading the example paragraph with the bionic stuff. I tried the other examples, but I memorized enough of the text starting the 3rd example that I could not really infer anything. Putting the…
As a native English speaker, I also felt like I had to work harder to read the bionic text. I am first grade teacher and have taught many children to read. Bionic's principles and algorithm do not match what I understand about the science of reading. This just holds the first part of a word, regardless of what the letters are. I would want an algorithm that is smarter than that (and I certainly wouldn't use bionic in…
Thank you for teaching the children and best regards from the Alps, Renato
Should've made a browser extension for Chrome/Firefox. Without that, how can this ever come to the browser?
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…
I'd like to try this as an option in firefox's reader mode as that's the format in which I read most long texts. This did on the surface feel like it is a help for me, in particular not so much the reading speed but the 'pull' of the words meant I was less likely to get distracted halfway through a paragraph and tab away. (Yes, I suspect I may have undiagnosed adhd).
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…
Also a bit of tangent, but I wonder, could fellow English native speakers generally skim books like less than three to five seconds on each page, and roughly get the idea of those pages? I'm a native speaker of Chinese and it's pretty easy for me to do it in Chinese, but there's no way for me to do the same in English despite I've been reading English for years.
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…
Very cool :)
I would have thought there is also value in bolding the last-x-amount of letters.
I forgot the name of the "concept" but it's been shown that the beginning and ending parts of words are the most "recognizable". You usually see a sample of that on those 'silly-facebook-posts', example:
"I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg"
[1] https://www.ecenglish.com/learnenglish/lessons/can-you-read
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 these folks deserve to eat and pay rent for a few years upon discovering something so useful.