Speed Reader
Read 2–5x faster with zero effort
92 followers
Read 2–5x faster with zero effort
92 followers
Speed Reader — macOS app that helps you read 2–5x faster using RSVP (one word at a time, no eye movement). Supports PDF, EPUB, DOCX, URLs, and even screen capture with OCR. 4 display modes including a MacBook notch widget.
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Congratulations on launch! What about some texts which have related graphs/images as well. Sometimes, we need to read, observe and verify at the same time? Are there any plans to handle that as well?
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@ashishkingdom Thank you! This feature has already been implemented. You can set a pause for visual elements. For example, when it’s time to display an image, table, or graph, the narration will resume only after you click the button.
Thats very useful because sometimes our CFO gets 70-page contracts and reading through that its pure madness, especially when its from chinese vendors☠️ Does ur product has something like a bulit-in translation feature for this typa stuff?
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@eugene_chernyak thank you! There is no translator yet, but I'll write it down in the task backlog
Love the notch widget + ocr combo, makes this feel native instead of bolted on. Does the app let you set different wpm presets per content type, like slower for dense pdfs, faster for casual articles?
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@liam_appbuildchat Thank you, yes, you can setup it
As someone who lives in PDF and OCR land, the screen-area OCR (reading stuff with no selectable text) is the bit I'd reach for most, that's exactly where everything else gives up. The notch widget is a clever use of dead space too, and the "eyes stay still, brain flies" framing finally made RSVP click for me. Saving this to try on my next long doc.
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@dmitry_petrakov Thank you! Hope you will like it
Great tool for focus! Is there a plan on implementing a feature to extract the focus on most important or relevant texts?
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@ignat_bessarab Thanks, but to be honest, I didn't really understand what you were talking about
@khlebobul let's say I have a 70 pages doc and I want to read a quick 1-2 pages summary in focus mode, do you plan on implementing such summary feature? Kinda like most AI tools have nowadays
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@ignat_bessarab I don't think so right now. I want to focus on the quality of PDF reading, but I haven't planned on extracting text from the document yet