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Also, Spree doesn't walk to an element's parent, which usually keeps it from getting into JS and ads, while still reading all of, say, a news article.
On another tack, quite a lovely site.
1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spree/aehoaolhojlm...
I'm pretty sure this is just a big middle finger to Spritz. In the most hilarious way possible. Or am I misinterpreting the acknowledgments? ;)
It doesn't work well. Reads out Javascript and side text/ads on websites.
This project may consider a name-change, as googling for this after it's gone from the HN homepage will trigger ... interesting results. Especially if you're trying to show this to a co-worker in the office. Note to my boss: I'm sorry!
This is lovely, but how do I adjust the default WPM? I want to use more than 400, and having to adjust it each time is very annoying.
It doesn't work well. Reads out Javascript and side text/ads on websites.
highlight the text you want to read and then click the bookmarklet.
This is a nice demo, but not a finished product.
I've never thought much about my reading speed before, but after trying this and finding the deafault setting a bit slow, I decided to compare my natural reading speed. I was able to read the article I chose in about 85% of the time of the default 400WPM of the bookmarklet (I read the article first with a timer, and then reread with the bookmarklet), which would put me at 470WPM. With Squirt, I was only able to get u…
> I wonder if people really read one word at a time They don't. I always thought the whole point of speed reading was to ingest multiple words simultaneously. These speed reading tools should be extended so that they can show multiple words at once rather than one word at a time. A really ambitious improvement would be to automatically recognize very common phrases and constructions and to make an effort to always sh…
http://spreeder.com/ allows you to put in multiple words.
However, if the code for this is available for anyone to edit/modify, perhaps anyone wanting that feature could add it.