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The flexibility of having a computer read the text via text to speech is a huge benefit IMO. My reading speed is painfully slow but with espeak or a screen read
by greenyouse 9y ago
The flexibility of having a computer read the text via text to speech is a huge benefit IMO. My reading speed is painfully slow but with espeak or a screen reader I can parse about 400 wpm.
One thing that helped me a lot was doing a keybinding for espeak via:
xsel | espeak -v en-us -s 400
I have a relative with dyslexia and it was a helpful hack for him to get reading faster too. Too bad this doesn't usually work as well in school settings where they use physical textbooks.
- kagamine 9y agoFor any Mac users wanting to try out text to speech and who didn't already know, it's built into OSX. Have a look in your Preferences panel. It can be very useful if you want to 'read' something while looking at something else, like a game.
- nathyong 9y agoYou might not know this, but you don't need to go through the Preferences panel. You can use the `say` command from the command line, which uses the same engine, but you can pipe text to it. For example, to dictate whatever's on the clipboard, pbpaste | say