This blind software developer's display is 450 word-a-minute speech synthesizer

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I want to try that to see what it’s like, really interesting.

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Taking users like this into account can lead to the writing of better and more streamline code. It would be interesting to try to work like this for even a few minutes (albeit with much slower read back)

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Nice. I’ve been slowly increasing the playback speed of audiobooks for about 6 months, and I’m now very comfortable at 1.75X for most books, dropping down to 1.5 if it’s particularly dense, and going up to 2 for breezier narratives. I wonder if the robotic regularity of TTS helps or hinders at higher speeds?

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Wow - how bizarre.

Amazing .

You’re the person that function is for! I’ve always wondered…

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It’s particularly fun on podcasts, since they have theme songs to get distorted. :slight_smile:

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