Initially, I just opened the first link. When I opened the third, I could pick up some words, but not all. Possibly if I had to do this regularly, I could gain some skill, but I see no real advantage

Gene, I was born borderline legally blind, 20/90 corrected & 20/125 without glasses. I lost the remainer of my vision 13 years ago. From the approximate age of 11 years, when I started receiving books

I'll change what I said.  The article doesn't have the defect I thought it might.  I listened to the other two samples, both of which are too fast for me to understand.  Evidently, those who lost

I haven't checked the other samples, but on seeing your message, I checked the third one.  I can understand a lot of it when wearing headphones and perhaps less when close to the small speaker in my

Wow, Donna, I am impressed.

I can understand the 3rd voice speech rate. It is political. Something about killings in Afghanistan in 2007 by Blackwater guards who killed 17 people & who were facing charges. Donna

I can't believe anyone could understand that.

Maybe they are broken in the blog post but the Scientific American article has one link and that is the one I am discussing. The link works. I followed it and downloaded a wave file.

I thought it might be German and knowing it was a German study makes that seem very likely. I don't recall what the article said but the statement should have been explicitly made as to what

The links to the samples in the blog post are broken. Here are updated ones. https://rdouglasfields.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/21sps.wav

This was a German study, so perhaps the samples are in German? This sounds a bit like the German version of Eloquence, but it was possibly sped up artificially. Here's a blog post that has

As a follow up to last week’s episode talking about parenting a blind child, this week’s episode of Eyes On Success is: 2238 Encore of 1133 Living with a Blind Person (Sep. 21, 2022) Show

So, it was English? LOL!

Yes, I've tried 65 and 60, but all in all more satisfied with 55% for the iPhone.

I slowed it to the point where I think that if it was English, understandable or not, it would at least sound like English and that we might at least understand a word here and there.  It doesn't

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I too have mine at 55, Once in a while I'll put it to 60, but it's usually too fast and I end up putting it back to 55. David

Wow, if you slowed that one...? Do you all think some blind people could make sense of that?

I have the same speed, Donna and 55% on my iPhone.

It's a matter of exercising, so if a certain part of the brain is needed for something, using that develops its strength, just like taking exercise does muscles, regardless of other issues. So, yes,