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Slow down on long words would be very helpful, I just tried it with some german news text[1] at 600wpm: Worked great except for words that occured like Kin
by eik3_de 13y ago
Slow down on long words would be very helpful, I just tried it with some german news text[1] at 600wpm: Worked great except for words that occured like
Kinderbetreuungsmöglichkeiten
US-Geheimdienstausschusses
Bundestags-Innenausschuss
Bundeswirtschaftsminister
Bundesarbeitsministeriums
[1] http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/nachrichten.353.de.html http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/nachrichten.353.de.html
- gohrt 13y agoDo you think german words like this would benefit from automatic syllable colorization -- slightly changing the shade of grey to make the syllable boundaries more obvious?
- eik3_de 13y agoNot sure. E.g. 'Kinderbetreuungsmöglichkeiten' means 'child care possibilities', that's three words in one. I suppose the brain just needs more time to parse that. But just counting characters to determine delay won't cut it, since 'Mississippi' is quite quick to parse.
- ntaso 13y agoThen maybe colorize nouns in a compound noun word instead of syllables ?
- robertjwebb 13y agoCouldn't you split compound words so the components appear in sequence? e.g. Kinder- -betreuungs- -möglichkeiten
- dimon 13y agoOne could, but most likely one would need a proper morphological analysis[2] to make it work correctly for the endless possibilities to combine words in German. Pretty hard to implement in the browser, but maybe an 80:20 like approach using a good dictionary could help for common terms in combination with slowdown on terms it doesn't know how to split. [1] for example, one could use wiktionary data and try to extract how to properly separate common terms: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schifffahrt https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Schifffahrt Edit: [2] German demo of how that usually looks http://www.tagh.de/demo.php http://www.tagh.de/demo.php (not affiliated)
- X4 13y agoWhat 'bout making it simpler and instead of colorizing nouns you colorize a horizontal gradient like http://www.beelinereader.com/ http://www.beelinereader.com/
- pkghost 13y agoSyllable recognition is still an unsolved problem, no? Is anybody familiar with the state of the art?
- tikwidd 13y agoFor German (and maybe English too?), I think splitting up compound words into their constituent noun stems could work.
- pkghost 13y agoLOL. This is on the todo list :) Thanks for the feedback!
- nopasswordreset 13y agoAlso doesn't work for Japanese text. It shows pretty much a whole paragraph at a time.