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Re:Software development and screen readers at 450 words per ... by mgr86 on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:16AM (#15116655)
I wonder the same. I often listen to videos at 1.5-1.8x. I can listen to faster, but after about 2-2.5x it becomes enjoyable. As I need full concentration to parse the speech and miss out on the visual experience. Perhaps being blind the audio processing is heightened or just the visual distraction is absent allowing full concentration on the audio?
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Re:Software development and screen readers at 450 words per ... by kazagistar on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:53AM (#15116880)
I would imagine that the consistent robotic voice helps too, allowing large chunks of text and whole sentences to be processed as a single pattern, like when speed reading.
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