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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
BuddyBuzz for faster reading on phones
"...it quickly flashes words on a screen one at a time."
"...once you move the speed up, to about 400 or 500 words (per minute), it feels like a stream"
"Others, though, don't like losing control over the reading experience and not having the ability to jump around within the text."
For news this would probably not be a problem.
On a different but related subject: I'd like to see support for text-to-speech for hands-off news and message presentation. Ideal while driving, but also if you are engrossed in other things. Extra fun if it read out news/messages as they arrived (without user intervention), and possibly expressing emoticons in appropriate ways (sounding happy, sad etc). For a taste of this, see my Notify application.
Text streaming service lets users read material as fast as they can - Yahoo! News
"...once you move the speed up, to about 400 or 500 words (per minute), it feels like a stream"
"Others, though, don't like losing control over the reading experience and not having the ability to jump around within the text."
For news this would probably not be a problem.
On a different but related subject: I'd like to see support for text-to-speech for hands-off news and message presentation. Ideal while driving, but also if you are engrossed in other things. Extra fun if it read out news/messages as they arrived (without user intervention), and possibly expressing emoticons in appropriate ways (sounding happy, sad etc). For a taste of this, see my Notify application.
Text streaming service lets users read material as fast as they can - Yahoo! News
