I read quickly, sometimes extremely quickly (I can spot things in a terminal window scrolling at high speed - I know some people who can't do that), and find th

I read quickly, sometimes extremely quickly (I can spot things in a terminal window scrolling at high speed - I know some people who can't do that), and find the inner voice doesn't slow down my reading at all. Like what someone wrote about visualising barns, it's not like a real voice. Even though it's faster than real speech, it doesn't sound rapid in the same way as Youtube at 2x. And if I skip my eyes around a large block of text, it seamlessly picks up the words in each location instantly. So I don't think the reading happens by internal listening. I think the reading is visual, and the internal speech is more like an output of the reading process, giving an auditory feel (and a bit of an accent) to the words.