[manusachi]

Blind people often go upto 600 words per minute and more with text-to-speech, which is, I think, would be an equivalent to 5x and more.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

In fairness, they cannibalize their visual cortex to do that:)

[sooheon]

There's the cue for my biennial reread of Peter Watts' Blindsight.

[kamarg]

Did you read his followup Echopraxia? How would you say it compared to Blindsight?

[sooheon]

I've read Blindsight multiple times, and weirdly couldn't finish Echopraxia. Maybe this time.

[Bluestein]

Went into my list. Appreciated :)

[bryanrasmussen]

I'm pretty sure you can train yourself to do the same, but the effort probably doesn't seem worth it for most people.

[worthless-trash]

But its robotic and predictable, human speech is not.