{"id":4631,"date":"2009-12-31T20:24:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jurnsearch.wordpress.com\/?p=4631"},"modified":"2009-12-31T20:24:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:24:30","slug":"readability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/jurnsearch\/index.php\/2009\/12\/31\/readability\/","title":{"rendered":"Readability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Readability<\/a> is an interesting experiment. With one button-click it attempts to auto-detect<\/strong> the interesting\/worthwhile content on a web-page, throws out the clutter, and then presents you with that selected content as a simple page of nicely formatted text.<\/p>\n

Before (“watch TV, use social medja, read our twits!” — blah!):
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After (just read the article):
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It’s intended to work on pages which have a decent amount of article text, which you’d like to read comfortably. What it needs now is a neat text-to-speech button addon, which would convert the article to speech and then add it into a combined personal daily podcast*<\/sup><\/p>\n

Running it on the Jurn blog correctly picked the most substantial post currently on the front page, the group test of business search-engines, and just<\/em> showed me that. I’m impressed. Readability is another pointer (along with the excellent SurfClarity and Stylish FF addons) to a future in which the intelligent user enjoys a robustly ad-blocked, domain-blocked, user-in-control browsing experience. It won’t just be Google’s caffeine update which will be giving webjunk a hard time in 2010.<\/p>\n

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   * There are some decent SAPI TTS voices out there, believe it or not, and I can highly recommend the American-accented NeoSpeech VW Paul<\/a> and the British-accented ScanSoft Daniel<\/a>. If you have such extra voices, to change the default Windows 7 voice you need to delve into: Control Panel – Ease of Access – Ease of Access Center – Start Narrator – Voice Settings – then change your SAPI voice. Or you can use the TextAloud Firefox toolbar, which makes it easy to change voices at the flick of a button — although you’ll still need to edit certain words using the Pronunciation Editor<\/a>, to get flawless readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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