recently i tried this http://www.fba-works.com to get a novel （ボッコちゃん）　made into a pdf that I could copy and paste with and was very impressed with the results.


I'm not really interested in the nitty gritty of subtitle timings, but does anybody think that there would be a way to use this company and their OCR to make better .srt files?

I'm willing to try it, but I'm not sure what kind of file to send them or what I can get back other than a pdf.

What do you guys think?

If that site does is OCR books, without an audio track, I don't see how subtitles would help with too much.

I suppose if you wanted to do make subtitles that move like spreeder, that could help. But I would imagine you would need to be at a decent reading level to make good use of that kinda text.

(However. if someone wanted to make a spreeder for Japanese, what would be freakin awesome)

I suppose the tricky part about spreeder for Japanese would be the lack of spaces? Because with spaces, it would work exactly the same.

Yeah, I wish there was a simple open source solution to break up Japanese text up by words.

This is the first time I've heard of spreeder. Has anyone had any success using this to silence their "inner voice"? Can you read 1000+ wpm?

Splatted Wrote:This is the first time I've heard of spreeder. Has anyone had any success using this to silence their "inner voice"? Can you read 1000+ wpm?

While I haven't used this technique to get there, I can read spreeder 1 word at a time at 600 wpm. At 2 words, I can read 1000wpm. I can also read books at this speed without any tricks.

Oddly, though, I didn't silence the voice in my head. Instead, have you ever heard a tape played at 1.5x-2x speed? The voice in my head sounds like that. lol If I concentrate, I can make the voice go away, too, but it doesn't seem to have any benefit for me. I got there by just forcing myself to see more words at a time than I could physically say. (And years and years of reading for fun.) Technically, that's what spreeder is doing also, except that it doesn't let you cheat and go back.

What technique did you use? Also, has your natural reading speed increased along with your ability to speed read?

Splatted Wrote:What technique did you use? Also, has your natural reading speed increased along with your ability to speed read?

As I said, I just forced my eyes to scan the page faster. It's basically the same underlying principle as Spreeder, but with the ability to cheat and go back or slow down for things you don't understand immediately.

My reading speed has always been really good, and I (in short time) developed this to re-read some books that had really boring parts. I used the technique to get all the content of those parts without spending hours of my life... I probably spent 1/4 of the time that I normally would have.

Reading like that isn't -fun-, though. It merely gives you the information without allowing you time to process or associate the information with anything. Perfect for a re-read, or finding specific information (very useful on open-book tests) but useless for the first time you read a book for fun or learning.

Thanks wccrawford, I don't why I didn't notice you'd already answered my first question. Probably because I'm inexplicably sleepy this afternoon.

I guess I'll give Spreeder a go. Sorry for all the off topicness.