Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster to read

Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by matsemann on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:15AM (#30787954)

I wonder how bolding more on uniqueness would work? Instead of just first characters.

For instance now THeir and THere will be bolded the same, on a quick glance that can be confusing. (Using caps as HN can't do bold)

Would it increase pattern recognition in the brain if it instead was THeIr and THeRe, or some other variant where the bolding highlights the unique parts of a word compared to other common words?

Well I wrote the idea here, so don't try patent it, hehe.

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by renato_casutt on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:19AM (#30787975)

Haha...nice The basic problem with reading is that your eye needs a fixed point...that's why they should be "blocks". This one doesn't have to be at the very beginning though ;) But cool comment Hehe

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by matsemann on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:22AM (#30788003)

True. You made me remember a different concept, where words would flash at the same point, but centered around some fixed highlighted character per word. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ky8DP55YEO0

Edit: but thank you for sharing your concept here, very interesting, and I like the discussions it created.

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by moritonal on Thursday March 24, 2022 @07:53AM (#30788606)

Ironically (given the GP comment) this tech also died because of their aggressive attempt to commercialise it.

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by kranner on Thursday March 24, 2022 @08:58AM (#30789097)

I had an iOS speed-reading app at the time and considered integrating their API because users requested it. Not only would they have required individual users to sign in to their API via my app, IIRC their terms allowed them to track what each user was reading. Naturally I declined. I hope OP’s terms of use are more respecting of user privacy.

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by renato_casutt on Thursday March 24, 2022 @06:30AM (#30788052)

Thank you matsemann

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Re:Show HN: Bionic Reading – Formats text to make it faster ... by kache_ on Thursday March 24, 2022 @09:38AM (#30789572)

A giant hashmap generated by hours and hours of ab testing on humans with eye tracking

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