I found a site where you can listen to people read the sentences in different accents and tried to see if it was possible to hear a series of lines aloud without them gathering meaning.

The package uses an external text-to-speech engine (like flite) to pronounce the word at or near point, the selected region or a whole buffer. M-x read-aloud-this-- pronounce either the selection or a ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity. As part of the deal, Read.cv will begin to wind down ...

The Ig Nobel prizes are famed for their spotlighting of offbeat research. Nature investigates how some winners feel about their ‘honour’. Marc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991 ...

Two decades ago, Sally Read was an award-winning poet, an outspoken feminist as well as a vehemently anti-Catholic atheist. Then, unexpectedly, in 2010, she converted to Catholicism. Subsequently ...

1, I ask people, “What resolutions will you make this year?” With reliable frequency, people tell me, “I want to read more.” Perhaps that’s not surprising. Most of us have the sense that ...

The freedom to read is essential to our democracy. It is continuously under attack. Private groups and public authorities in various parts of the country are working to remove or limit access to ...

In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the main source of economic opportunity. By Oliver Whang The Nobel-winning author’s husband was a pedophile who targeted her daughter and ...

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Humans cannot literally read the minds of others, but can create mental models so as to effectively intuit people's thoughts and feelings. This is known as empathic accuracy, and it involves ...