Yeah, when they mentioned speeding up spoken texts, that was when I had to disagree with the article -- I can easily listen to some material at 1.25-2x, though

Yeah, when they mentioned speeding up spoken texts, that was when I had to disagree with the article -- I can easily listen to some material at 1.25-2x, though it's true that if my mind wanders at all, I miss quite a bit. Of course, that's also true when reading at normal speeds, but since it's then playing back slower, you'd miss less in the same amount of time, right? In this case, I swiped down with two fingers to start iOS' speech function and it read the article quite quickly for me. I was able to better follow along with the reading as it highlighted words on the page. So while I won't say the article is wrong in absolute terms -- it's definitely a different experience to "speed read" in any practical manner than to read each word carefully on your own -- I do think some speed up with assistive tools or training is possible. :)