 Google Chrome Browser Extension
To install: Save the .CRX file, then drag into chrome
Cortexit Text Dispersant is an open-source software project, supported by a community for continued development.
Select some text and CORTEXIT. A panel appears, displaying approximately one sentence at a time – enabling slow and focused reading. Disperse large paragraphs of text, where words seem to blend together, into easily digestible chunks.- In large fonts, filling the screen
- Focus on one sentence or word at a time.
Helps those with ADD, Dyslexia, and Vision problems
Now you can adjust, and maybe improve the rate and quality of how you absorb information.
You are no longer at the mercy of web designers and authors that insist on writing impenetrably dense paragraphs in small fonts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_reading http://johnmiedema.ca/slow-reading/
Chrome ExtensionFeatures- Selection Context menu trigger
- Mouse wheel prev/next
- Right click to quick close
- Mouse wheel font size adjust
- Escape key closes, left/right=prev/next, up/down=font adjust
- Help menu
- Options page
- Contextual Images related to words of the current sentence
- Text-to-speech
Caveats - You will need to reload any pages that are already opened at the time the extension is activated in order to use Cortexit in them.
- Using it on Chrome Extension gallery pages doesn’t work due to Chrome’s security settings
- Due to limitations of Google’s secret TTS (text-to-speech) API:
- Speech may not be available for all sentences
- Speech may not be available after frequent usage
Planned- Sound events
- Animations: transitions
- Statistics, with charts
- # of sentences read per day, per hour, etc…
- Time per sentence.
- Avg # of words per sentence
- Frequency of words
- Tweet this sentence (with ability to edit it inline before tweeting)
- Slideshow (automatic forward)
- Random
- Enqueue to buffer, continue from last location (“Cortexit Later”)
- Paste from other applications
- Pluggable Filters and Renderers
- Display options: color, size, font
- Improved Sentence Splitting
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