From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: power-reader-mode Date: 12 Feb 2006 01:28:16 +1100 Message-ID: <87hd76hsvz.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> References: <874qtwzcyy.fsf@rechner1.ddorf.de> Reply-To: timx@spamto.devnul.com NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139682596 28589 80.91.229.2 (11 Feb 2006 18:29:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 11 19:29:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7zVH-0006IQ-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:29:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F7zVF-0001wq-W4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:29:49 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp37-51.lns2.syd6.internode.on.net Original-X-Trace: duster.adelaide.on.net 1139668097 59.167.37.51 (12 Feb 2006 00:58:17 +1050) Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-south.connect.com.au!duster.adelaide.on.net!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137516 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33141 Archived-At: Joakim Verona writes: > Fabian Braennstroem writes: > > There is "speedread.el" that does exactly that. > > I've used it and its pretty neat! > > > Hello, > > > > as a Emacs-User I have to read a lot and now using Gnus even more :-) > > Does a package exist which can work as a 'power-reader'? I.e. when I mark a > > region and start the power-reader-mode, a small buffer opens, in which the > > words are printed one after another (maybe two or three). > > > > Greetings! > > -- > > Fabian Braennstroem > > Duesseldorf/Berlin > > -- > Joakim Verona > www.verona.se > there is an even better solution IMO. Check out festival and testival.el or speech-dispatcher and speechd-el or emacspeak. All of these packages give you speech (text-to-speech) facilities from within emacs. So, instead of sitting there reading the documentation, you can actually have your computer read it to you. After a while, you get use to the speech and can increase the speeds. I use such a fast speed now, nobody else can understand what is being said, but I can listen to it and get through as much as I use to get through by reading for the same time. Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out!