[drooby]

I use text to speech… it absolutely is a short cut and without and doubt it improves my reading comprehension, stamina, and speed..

I can even look away from the screen and still follow along.

It has changed my life and introduced me to so much more information that I would have otherwise not attained with manual reading.

Eye scanning and mental vocalization are really tiring on my brain. Text to speech has solved both of these problems.

I think there’s something about adding a new dimension (auditory) that also helps with memorizing and comprehension. It adds more data points for my Bayesian brain to use and associate with.

[NoGravitas]

It's the opposite for me. I can't listen to things at anything like my comfortable reading speed. The move of so much internet content from text to video has been a disaster for me.

[selfhifive]

Depends on your style of synthesis I think. I need to think and establish axioms in my head after every two paragraphs so I pause a lot. Going over something again on TTS puts me to sleep.

[painted-now]

For me, listening to audiobooks was a game changer. I guess TTS is even better because you can listen to pretty much everything.

Any app/software you can recommend?

[drooby]

I use NaturalReader paid subscription with high quality TTS voices for web browsing and the free iOS version of Voice Dream reader for ebooks and mobile browsing.

[300bps]

My retention from listening to text is a tiny fraction of my retention from seeing written words and numbers.

[drooby]

I follow along with written words and listen at the same time. The apps I use automatically scroll the page and keep the current text in focus.

[Oblitzitate]

What apps are you using?