Text streaming bookmarklet that the word jumps into the eyes "Squirt"

ByNick Kenrick

By decomposing text information into words and quickly displaying them one after another, you can read sentences at a tremendous speed "Spritz"Quick-read tools to call even" text streaming "are being developed one after another. Easy text streaming display with bookmarkletI already posted about "OpenSpritz"However, there were drawbacks that there were many pages where text streaming can not be used because the condition that can be displayed well is severe. On the other hand, the newly released "Squirt"Is a specification that allows text streaming to be used more stably.

Squirt
http://www.squirt.io/install.html


First, register the Squirt bookmarklet. the aboveSquirt's siteDrag and drop "SQUIRT" button located in the browser bookmark toolbar in the browser.


As shown below, it is OK if the bookmarklet "Squirt" is saved in the bookmark toolbar. By clicking this Squirt bookmarklet button with your favorite page, you can display text streaming.


I will try to display the main page of Wikipedia text streaming in Squirt at once.


Click "Squirt".


Then, "3, 2, 1" starts counting at the center of the screen ... ...


Text streaming started. ORP (Optimal Recognition Position) which unconsciously matches the viewpoint when viewing a word is displayed in red.


The indication "400 WPM" on the right side of the screen indicates the switching speed of words and means to display 400 words per minute. Click "400 WPM" ......


Various speeds are available so text streaming is perfect for you.


The button in the picture below is for rewinding streaming for 10 seconds.


There is also a button to stop streaming.


Page text When streaming is complete, you will see how much time and how many words you were able to read.


Also, if you click the page while streaming ......


You can instantly switch the display to the original page.


Since it was confirmed that text streaming can be done on an English page, I also tried it in a GIGAZINE article as a Japanese page.


The result seems to be unable to recognize words in Japanese, and text streaming was done in the form of a sentence like this in this way. At this time, Squirt does not seem to correspond to Japanese pages.


Squirt is very easy to text streaming display, operation is also extremely stable, it is recommended bookmarklet for those who want to read fast English. Also, Squirt is allowed to embed in the site, and the author, Cameron Boehmer, welcomes feedback information as well and is also positive for improvement. The corresponding browsers are Chrome · Firefox · Safari.


◆bonus
"Spritz", the origin of text streaming, has a $ 3.5 million (about 360 million yen)Seed RoundIn text streaming technology, great attention has gathered. Meanwhile, source code has been released by a programmer inspired by Spritz and proprietary to text streaming technology.


Author Zoli Kahan said, "Spritz is closed and not friendly to developers, so I decided to release the source code I developed." This is the source code released. Zoli Kahan said, "It's a code of 360 million yen".