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by antt 2804 days ago
>I would expect that the skill does translate to them being able to understand arbitrary speakers sped up more than a regular person could manage. I’d be curious if any HN readers using screen readers could confirm/tell me I’m talking nonsense :)

I use a text to speech program at ~850wpm and I also watch lectures sped up to x4 regular speed. So yes, it does generalize.