AutoReader 3D
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This not just another ebook reader.
It has several unique features:
- in AutoReader mode flashes words or phrases one by one sequentially on the screen, with regulated speed.
- in 3D Stereo mode you can read with 3D effect on any device.
- in overview mode you can scroll or flip pages in the same time.
- support pinch, spread and rotate gestures to change text size or screen orientation any time you need.
These features allows to turn reading into a useful and fascinating process, and reduce eye strain.
AutoReader allows to read much larger text, what's important not only for people with impaired vision.
But also, for example, in transport, on the go, on the running machine, etc. when focusing on a small text tiring for the eyes or impossible.
Moreover, 3D Stereo mode can even be beneficial for your eyes, if done right, the visual axis
are parallel (as when looking at the horizon), which relaxes the external eye muscles, and the focus is on the stereo pair,
that helps to synchronize the focus of both eyes, which is also useful, as it's often one eye focuses better than the other (we can be unaware of it, but simply feel tired).
Read for the benefit of your eyes! But that's not all, AutoReader allows you to read faster than usual.
AutoReader increases the speed of reading and helps get rid of subvocalization, one of the main factors slowing down the reading process. Subvocalization - it is hidden, unconscious movement of the lips, tongue and other organs of speech.
The habit to pronounce the words formed in the childhood, when learning to read, and does not disappear completely, without any special training.
Try to gradually increase the speed of displaying words (slide your finger up the screen), with the growth of speed the vocal apparatus is no longer keep up with the volume of information and no longer involved in the processing - information from the visual analyzer will be immediately sent to the meaning.
The feel is cool, as if you just catch the author's idea, not a speech.
You realize that you can read much faster and without much effort.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivChJlwb15U
List of features:
- Built-in file browser.
- Supported formats. Txt, Txt.zip, Fb2, Fb2.zip, Epub, (PDF, DOC and others are comming soon).
- Automatic detection of encoding.
- Smooth scrolling text (finger up / down).
- Flipping through the pages (finger left / right).
- Go to a random page number.
- Change the text size "on the fly" (zoom with two fingers).
- Rotate the screen at any time in any mode (tap the screen with two fingers and rotate it 90 degrees).
- Double click to go to another mode (from Overview mode to AutoReader, from mono to 3D Stereo mode and vice versa).
- Infinitely variable speed of AutoReader (finger up / down the screen).
- View and move to the previous or next sentence in the AutoReader mode (finger left / right on the screen).
- Settings for the font, text color and background color.
- Select from over 20 background images for AutoReader.
- Built-in help for gestures and 3D Stereo mode.
Android market pages (play.google.com)
free version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webstunning.fc
paid version
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.webstunning.textreader
This is really really nice. I mean really.
Some ideas and remarks:
I may be wrong but I think each word is displayed the same amount of time, without regards to its length. I think it would be better if the display duration takes into account this length. My brain needs more time to read a word like "is" than a word like "development". I also guess that the brain doesn't read words but recognizes their shapes. This means that a word rarely used and long (like the name of an unknown guy) requires a lot more time that the word "is" in order to be decrypted by the brain. If the word is not in the dictionary, then it should be displayed longer.
Each new word is a little below the previous one, which is fine. But when the sentence is very long, the vertical distance between the last word of that sentence and the first one of the next sentence is large. This makes me loose focus.
It will be huge if you integrate your app with ReadItLater or Pocket. At least, you can make you app read the files in /sdcard/Android/data/com.ideashower.readitlater.pro/files/RIL_offline/RIL_pages/1000XX/text.html. But I am not sure if it is legal to use data file from other app.
Another nice feature would be to use the Android ClipboardManager. Let's say that I am reading a web page in my android browser. I would like to copy the text, launch your app, and read it in 3D.
Using the "Share" feature could be nice too, instead of copying the text myself. But then you will have to write a piece of code that extracts relevant text from web pages.
Currently I am not trained to read in 3D. I need up to five minutes watching the first word before start reading. Maybe you can display the first the word only once in the center, then make a clone of that word appears and make them both move away from each other horizontally, slowly and smoothly, until they reach the expected distance, or until the user touch the screen to say stop. Maybe their movement can be totally commanded by a horizontal slide of finger.
Thanks a lot and please, keep going.
Transparence Code
http://transparencecode.blogspot.com
Thanks for detailed review and suggestions.
1. You are right, short words displayed the same amount of time.
But starting with 5 letters the time increased proportionally.
And two letter worlds such as "is" usually attached to the next word.
We need to think about the dictionary - good idea.
2. Each new word is a little below the previous one,
yes, but the distance is always the same. I don't understand how you
loose the focus.
We can make a parameter to disable the feature, but you can believe
me, you getting tired very quickly when you look at the same point.
3. Yes, we are planning to add the clipboard integration, need to
think about Read It Later.
4. I'm not sure that moving words can help to see 3D.
I recommend to reduce the distance between words in the options.
And by the way if you read in French, we can add support of French,
just few short words, articles etc.
It supports all languages encoding, but sentences can be split better with little adjustments.
Thank you for your anwsers.
dmpost1 said:
2. Each new word is a little below the previous one,
yes, but the distance is always the same. I don't understand how you
loose the focus.
We can make a parameter to disable the feature, but you can believe
me, you getting tired very quickly when you look at the same point.
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With regards to my second comment:
Each new word is below the previous one, until a new word is displayed again at the top (screens have a finite size obviously). I may be wrong but I think each first word of sentences are displayed at the top, and each last ones at the bottom.
Even if I am wrong, the fact is that regulary, I have to move my eyes from the bottom to the top again. Sometime the distance between the bottom word and the following top word can be large. This is when I loose focus.
I think it occurs when there is two large sentences in a row, since my guess is that the middle words of sentences are displayed in the center of the screen.
A solution can be to split sentences in half. The first part will be displayed from top to bottom, and the second half from bottom to top. That way, the last word will appear at the same vertical position than the first next one, avoiding any discontinuity.
Hmmm. I guess I am still not clear. So there is an attached picture to help .
dmpost1 said:
And by the way if you read in French, we can add support of French,
just few short words, articles etc.
It supports all languages encoding, but sentences can be split better with little adjustments.
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Yes, I am French. I am not sure to understand what you mean by "adding support of French, just few short words, articles etc.". You mean you need help for translation or something?
does it support chm books?
By "adding support of French" I mean few additional rules for short words to combine them.
For example in English following short words are always attached to a next word.
pattern1 = "(?i)my|as|an|the|of|to|at|no|in|on|by"
pattern2 = "(?i)mrs\\.?|mr\\.?|ms\\?.|dr\\.?";
and the word "up" is always attached to a previous word.
So that e.g. "my car" and "make up" will be shown at once.
And of course if you can translate the app description and several words inside user interface it would be wonderful.
I can send you files tomorrow to your email.
2. As for words distance,
I don't see a problem in that maybe because I'm used to it.
I don't want to make a mess in the movement up and down.
At the moment the words positions gives you a hint about the length of sentence.
I think it would be better to make some pointer that will guide your eyes to next sentence start position.
There is an additional delay already between sentences, so you have a time to move your eyes up.
Thanks for your suggestions.
the app seems to be interesting
dmpost1 said:
By "adding support of French" I mean few additional rules for short words to combine them.
For example in English following short words are always attached to a next word.
pattern1 = "(?i)my|as|an|the|of|to|at|no|in|on|by"
pattern2 = "(?i)mrs\\.?|mr\\.?|ms\\?.|dr\\.?";
and the word "up" is always attached to a previous word.
So that e.g. "my car" and "make up" will be shown at once.
And of course if you can translate the app description and several words inside user interface it would be wonderful.
I can send you files tomorrow to your email.
2. As for words distance,
I don't see a problem in that maybe because I'm used to it.
I don't want to make a mess in the movement up and down.
At the moment the words positions gives you a hint about the length of sentence.
I think it would be better to make some pointer that will guide your eyes to next sentence start position.
There is an additional delay already between sentences, so you have a time to move your eyes up.
Thanks for your suggestions.
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Ok, I would be pleased to translate your files. By the way, what is your native language ? If it is not English, I may ask you too translate the language files of my own app too It's called CopySearch.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1664463
Some further remarks/suggestions:
In the Google Play description, you should mention that your app works without a 3D screen or glasses. I though first it was for the HTC evo 3D. Maybe you can also put a link to a website containing 3D stereo images and explaining how it works.
I understand about the words distance, and the rules for shorts words. I can help you for that too for French (I know regular expressions). By the way, I increased the font size and sometime, a single word takes 2 lines, just for a letter or 2. Maybe in such a case, the font can be automatically decreased a little bit, just for this too long word.
I made an epub from wikipedia with their online tool. Your app doesn't read it. Maybe it is because it contains images? By the way can you display images with your app ? Of course I just mean 2D images, like the one present in a wikipedia article.
How does your app works? The 2 occurrences of the word have a slightly different shadows? This is made using HDR? (I am a noob in optic)
In 3D mode, I can't find a way to "pause" the reading. The overall navigation can be improved, but I guess you already planned that.
Can rich text be displayed? An item list for instance? like an index ? (of course, it should be displayed with a really tiny font)
Well, there are more questions than suggestions this time
Transparence Code said:
In the Google Play description, you should mention that your app works without a 3D screen or glasses. I though first it was for the HTC evo 3D. Maybe you can also put a link to a website containing 3D stereo images and explaining how it works.
I understand about the words distance, and the rules for shorts words. I can help you for that too for French (I know regular expressions). By the way, I increased the font size and sometime, a single word takes 2 lines, just for a letter or 2. Maybe in such a case, the font can be automatically decreased a little bit, just for this too long word.
I made an epub from wikipedia with their online tool. Your app doesn't read it. Maybe it is because it contains images? By the way can you display images with your app ? Of course I just mean 2D images, like the one present in a wikipedia article.
How does your app works? The 2 occurrences of the word have a slightly different shadows? This is made using HDR? (I am a noob in optic)
In 3D mode, I can't find a way to "pause" the reading. The overall navigation can be improved, but I guess you already planned that.
Can rich text be displayed? An item list for instance? like an index ? (of course, it should be displayed with a really tiny font)
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1. OK, I will.
2. Thanks, I'll contact you via email about the languages deal.
3. Can you send me the epub file to check? Maybe we will add the images in future versions.
4. In stereo mode words have slightly larger span than background images. That gives effect of words floating above the background at a distance.
5. The single touch should pause/resume the reading in stereo mode, the same as in mono.
6. Not sure what you mean. But for now we have more desired/needed features than we can do in a month.
You are welcome
meethere said:
does it support chm books?
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I'm not sure that chm is needed for such a reader.
CHM is usually used for technical documentation and manuals,
if I'm not mistaken.
Doest it really reduce eyes strain?
The fact is that this app can make you read texts with a really big font. This is a huge feature for small screens. Especially when you read in public transportation, or when you are driving or making love.
I am kidding of course only for the two last conditions.
For the 3D Stereo mode, I thinks it's confortable. I can't tell if it really reduces eyes strain in long term. I would like some scientific studies for that. However the developper is a nice guy, and I believe him easily.
Yeah... at first I was sceptical about that 3d thing. But I was thinking a little about it and decided to give it a shot. The problem was that I'd had terrible headaches for over 1 year so it goes without saying that reading books in a usual way made me to take a break for every 15 minutes. Flash reading gives you even more stress to your eyes and additionally it require more focus. Since I mastered stereogram reading the headaches ceased because after 30 minutes session I feel refreshed rather than tired of reading. Much as there is no scientific document about benefits or side effects of that type of reading it is definitely worth trying.
My side-effects:
- Normal flash reading was about 250 and it seems too fast, or sometimes I was lost in meaning. During stereo reading I find it much easier to comprehend what I'm reading.
- Normal flash makes me tired and after 30 minutes or so I felt urge to take a break. During stereo reading I actually feel like taking a break. When I make some difficult taskt and need to take a break I go reading and after 30 minutes I'm ready to go.
- As it was said, my headaches ceased.
- Before I was extremely stressed during the day, but somehow if I maintain that relaxed stayed in my eyes after reading it somehow makes me calm afterwards.
- The way how I was looking before changed a bit. Most people are used looking at the world around by focusing at particular item. After I learnt seeing stereograms I'm just looking at everything without focusing on one area which helps to maintain relaxed state of mind.
- Since the act of reading become more pleasurable, using that software become kind of addicting.
There are the most important ones and so far I haven't noticed any bad side-effects but if they arise I'll let you know about them.
I don't know if the creator of this software carry outs some kind of scientific experiment, or just have amazing idea to make reading experience more natural for the eyes, but I'm really glad that something like that appears on the google play. Good job!
And please do something with tagging, because looking for "spead reading" software there is no result leading to "autoreader" which is a bit disappointing. : )
good review
Murakamii said:
Yeah... at first I was sceptical about that 3d thing. But I was thinking a little about it and decided to give it a shot. The problem was that I'd had terrible headaches for over 1 year so it goes without saying that reading books in a usual way made me to take a break for every 15 minutes. Flash reading gives you even more stress to your eyes and additionally it require more focus. Since I mastered stereogram reading the headaches ceased because after 30 minutes session I feel refreshed rather than tired of reading. Much as there is no scientific document about benefits or side effects of that type of reading it is definitely worth trying.
My side-effects:
- Normal flash reading was about 250 and it seems too fast, or sometimes I was lost in meaning. During stereo reading I find it much easier to comprehend what I'm reading.
- Normal flash makes me tired and after 30 minutes or so I felt urge to take a break. During stereo reading I actually feel like taking a break. When I make some difficult taskt and need to take a break I go reading and after 30 minutes I'm ready to go.
- As it was said, my headaches ceased.
- Before I was extremely stressed during the day, but somehow if I maintain that relaxed stayed in my eyes after reading it somehow makes me calm afterwards.
- The way how I was looking before changed a bit. Most people are used looking at the world around by focusing at particular item. After I learnt seeing stereograms I'm just looking at everything without focusing on one area which helps to maintain relaxed state of mind.
- Since the act of reading become more pleasurable, using that software become kind of addicting.
There are the most important ones and so far I haven't noticed any bad side-effects but if they arise I'll let you know about them.
I don't know if the creator of this software carry outs some kind of scientific experiment, or just have amazing idea to make reading experience more natural for the eyes, but I'm really glad that something like that appears on the google play. Good job!
And please do something with tagging, because looking for "spead reading" software there is no result leading to "autoreader" which is a bit disappointing. : )
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Thanks for the detailed review and volunteering for the scientific experiment on yourself
I read in 3D mode regularly, and my eyes feel cool,
without any side effects.
Of course you can feel tired, as after any other kind of reading.
But anything that I say as developer people regard as advertising.
So your review is very appreciated. ( leave it on Google Play please )
Thanks for the advice on tagging.
Murakamii said:
Yeah... at first I was sceptical about that 3d thing. But I was thinking a little about it and decided to give it a shot. The problem was that I'd had terrible headaches for over 1 year so it goes without saying that reading books in a usual way made me to take a break for every 15 minutes. Flash reading gives you even more stress to your eyes and additionally it require more focus. Since I mastered stereogram reading the headaches ceased because after 30 minutes session I feel refreshed rather than tired of reading. Much as there is no scientific document about benefits or side effects of that type of reading it is definitely worth trying.
My side-effects:
- Normal flash reading was about 250 and it seems too fast, or sometimes I was lost in meaning. During stereo reading I find it much easier to comprehend what I'm reading.
- Normal flash makes me tired and after 30 minutes or so I felt urge to take a break. During stereo reading I actually feel like taking a break. When I make some difficult taskt and need to take a break I go reading and after 30 minutes I'm ready to go.
- As it was said, my headaches ceased.
- Before I was extremely stressed during the day, but somehow if I maintain that relaxed stayed in my eyes after reading it somehow makes me calm afterwards.
- The way how I was looking before changed a bit. Most people are used looking at the world around by focusing at particular item. After I learnt seeing stereograms I'm just looking at everything without focusing on one area which helps to maintain relaxed state of mind.
- Since the act of reading become more pleasurable, using that software become kind of addicting.
There are the most important ones and so far I haven't noticed any bad side-effects but if they arise I'll let you know about them.
I don't know if the creator of this software carry outs some kind of scientific experiment, or just have amazing idea to make reading experience more natural for the eyes, but I'm really glad that something like that appears on the google play. Good job!
And please do something with tagging, because looking for "spead reading" software there is no result leading to "autoreader" which is a bit disappointing. : )
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Murakamii,
How did you get stable 3D-focus?
I lost it after few (3-5) minutes of reading and must re-catch it again and again (and it takes about 10-30 seconds). I must clarify I have discovered the app (as well as stereograms) few days ago.
I liked this enough to pay for it. Is it possible to change the color of the text font? Maybe in a future version?
Thank you for this app. Not sure if I'll be able to use the 3D portion of this app, but the speed reading portion of it rocks.
Is it possible to add in a way to look for books on a network share? Or is the functionality already there and I've overlooked it somehow?
Thanks!
Yakuman said:
I liked this enough to pay for it. Is it possible to change the color of the text font? Maybe in a future version?
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In current version you can change only color cheme, the text color depends on the background color.
In future versions we are planning to add more color settings.
Truly remarkable concept for increasing speed in reading while relaxing the eyes and reducing strain while reading in a traditional way.
Recommendations:
1. Headset button options to pause, go forward or backward
2. Auto scrolling on regular reading layout
3. Use of volume buttons (page up, page down)
4. Eye tracking option..stops the auto reader when eyes are closed
5. Bookshelf with file images and bookmarks (similar to Aldiko)
Hy Dmpost1!
Your app seems what I was looking for for years: flash reading with speed up-down gesture and stop at touch, great, i bought it.
Got a little problem:
I selected a large txt-file (1,8MB) and the app crashed (java.lang.OutofMemoryError)
Everytime I restart the app it tries to load the same file and crashes again. Same after reboot.
How to get out of this (without reinstalling)?
Maybe you also could look into is, as it also crashes, when I try to load a large epub ebook (1,8MB - its a regular file, bought it online).
Thx