I read fast as well. I use audiobooks and I listen to them with 2x speed, while taking notes. No, I do not forget most of what I read. The reason is because of the notes. Listen fast, take notes, go through the notes when you finish, do a monologue where you explain what you wrote on your notebook and you should be fine. :)
This app has subconsciously changed the way you talk. You normalized such speeds. Do you not realize you talk extremely fast as a result?😂 great vid btw
@@idrk1507 going through that type of material at those speeds are impossible to process. Lol think of a teacher who went too fast in a rigorous & very challenging course.
@@elizabethfilips had to check my playback speed while listening to this video. You talk so quickly! Is that normal for you or by-product of listening to books on 4x speed? Hehe😅
@@elizabethfilips 😂 No need to apologise, it meant listening to you was very time efficient. I was just worried that between Speechify and Ali you’d been sped up!
😂Hey Thady I love your reply to her, cause she do talk fast. I used to work to the Airport... and not only she read fast, she talk "Faster Than a Concord" 😂
I tried the app and when I blasted through 3 books in 2 days (100k words) I was informed that I ran out of "HD words" I was so disgusted. It's a really sneaky way to hide the true pricing model so if you are planning on working through a lot of books watch out.
What a great review! Thank you! Especially the part about Audible and the price and the fact that seeing the text in front of you while hearing it speaking enhances the understanding, and it is easier to take up notes. I wish Apple would buy them and integrate their technology as a standard in every device and platform. This is a true game-changer, especially for people with learning, reading, comprehension disabilities.
It is not reading unless it's only reading. The act of reading with no assistance is very different psychologically. Listening while reading, and especially just listening IS ABSOLUTELY NOT reading. But this is essentially a commercial isn't it
“Read a book and can't remember anything” why waste time reading it in the first place. I would prefer to read 25 books slow and understand what I've read instead of 100 books in a year and remember nothing, what a waste of time. Although I've read over 60 books a year for the last three years, I read at my own pace with no rush.
I tried 900 WPM and I only hear chirps. Can you actually understand the words being said or do you use this just to make the text in front of you go by?
Hola, super genial tu vídeo. A veces leo de manera física pero son muy caros los libros, pero la mayoría de libros que leo son digitales y estoy tratando ahora leerlos en inglés también, de manera que también pueda adquirir poco a poco un idioma. Muchas gracias, saludos desde Perú, y por cierto eres muy linda. Exitos!!!
To people's question about "surely you just forget everything": I remember that some of the best times of my life (times in which I also read the most, most regularly) were had when I would read consistently for its own sake. It would eventually bring me the highest amounts of confidence, creativity and flow I ever felt growing up and... I wasn't looking for any of those effects/outcomes either. Nor was I attempting to retain any particular piece of knowledge. Okok- except perhaps in some of my later teenage years cause, "Oooh fluency; oooh clear thinking; ooh quick witted (felt like I had a response for everything)", but all of that still had come only as a consequence of my interest in reading in the first place, and the sense of "peace" experienced after pushing myself to read a little more than I was comfortable with. It didn't follow from conscious attempts made to absorb any kind information or reaching any particular goal. All in all, it was stemming from some kind of hunger for the words themselves and the wonder I felt in having it all appear easily in my mind's eye. And a feeling that "I got this" (understood it) and that what I read could almost always be connected to some parts of my life I either experienced or were at least somewhat parallel to them, no matter the genre. And yet, somehow, without any goal in mind I got everything, and a little more, than I could have possibly gained from the activity had I had a specific rigid memorisation goal or whatever in mind while reading (I believe). My point is: try reading for reading's sake from time to time. Rinse and repeat. Trust your mind and enjoy yourself. You'll be surprised Aside: There's a really good video that this "avid reader on video" up here published, which details pretty perfectly (imo) how to take notes/memorise what you read more effectively. If reading for reading's sake sounds too extreme, that is. I forget what the video's name is... Pretty meta. But should be easy enough to find. Would recommend (am recommending it).
Some Audible books can have text on the screen but it would have to be a Whisper Sync enabled title. The drawbacks to this are (1) You have to buy both the kindle and audible versions so it can be quite costly and (2) not all titles are Whisper sync enabled (Harry Potter most notably comes to my mind). I do quite enjoy text and audio, it's quite relaxing but it looks like Speechify wins out for versatility and cost. Will definitely have to give it a try sometime!
What's the point, though? There are some books, let's say mythic or artistic, that contain so much depth that you really can't read them quickly, and why would you want to? The process of pondering and exploring the material yields more fruit from life lived as the concepts are being applied and as your knowledge of the material deepens. I've followed a lot of RUclipsrs touting claims of hundreds of books and . . . when I see their reading list . . . I'm not really inspired. Plus, the real meaty stuff . . . the good stuff . . . It'll take a little time to digest. By virtue of just the quantity - a 100 books in a year - those books just can't be deep or complex ones. At least, I don't think it's possible for them to be (not if you're already working 50-60 hour weeks). Let's throw Kant, Emerson, or Nietzsche on the list and see if we can keep the train rolling lol
Absolutely! I do mention this in the video! I would never read artistic books fast, Nietzsche is one of my favourite to read and I take it suuuuper slow and re-read paragraphs for ages and take time away in between the book to think and write about them - it takes me months to go through his work. This is more for pop-psychology and recent books - the whole thing may make one or two good points, and I'll take those slow to digest, the rest is just killing it with examples to me 😅
@@elizabethfilips My bad! Didn't realize that. lol. I'm currently reading Jung's Psychology and Alchemy Vol 1 - and it's going very slowly. Often that's all the time I have - an hour here or there, so I find it's really hard for me to get in any quantity (thought I do listen to an audio book here and there). Do you find it's valuable listening to say . . . so much volume, when you only get a handful of nuggets? Are the nuggets usually worth it?
@@Graham-Christian Oh no worries at all! I've never read Jung before, been on my list for AGES! I can definitely relate to that type of reading though haha In regards to listening to volume, I would say absolutely yes. I'll try to explain my reasoning Even though the book distills down to just one point, that single point (of a decent book) is usually worth knowing. Having read a few thousand words on it (even at a very high speed) will bombard you with examples that will consolidate the concept in such a way that it truly becomes one you can apply and 'understand'. I have a 'second brain' where I'll gather all the main points of books, write a few sentences on what they mean to me and what I understood from them, and then categorise them by topics. So on many different things in life, I always have ready-made resources for myself! As a mega-nerd, I massively enjoy this! I think Nietzsche and Ryan Holiday for example have very different sorts of value to add to my life, and so I approach and process them differently, but I still find it's a great benefit!
When I'm using Speechify on Kindle.I have to keep pressing play on each page.Which ruins the audio experience...because it just doesn't continuously read.....And I can't figure out the settings to make it just read the book
I was a political philosophy major in college, and I read VERY slowly. It's a good habit for philosophical texts, but I am trying to retrain myself for other types of text. It's been a lifelong struggle for me. Thank you for this method: I shall try it.
Thank you! They should definitely sponsor you. I just downloaded the app and so far it’s great. I think I’ll only use it for academic reading. I’m in law school so it’s also quite a lot and I always feel overwhelmed since I’m quite a slow reader 😅
I'm listening to this video at 2.4x speed by using Video Speed Controller. So Speechify sounds great. Typically I can listen to videos at 3.8 - 4.4 or so
I love the app, however recently I have had issue with the app that its sand glass just spinning and turning, and I have to twait and wait for it to stop so it starts to read for me. Many times, it wont start to read at all. I tried to close the app and restart or clear cache etc. The results were working again, or still not working. it became unpredictable and frustrating. I hope they can look into it and make improvement. Did you ever have.this problem? Thanks! One interesting thing is that when I set the speed at 3 in English, I could hardly comprehand the reading, but in Chinese @3x, I actually understand the materials pretty well, maybe at 80%. It shows my English is still not that good.
I like to combine the audible narration and the kindle ebook. You can read, then switch to audio, or even do both at the same time (kindle or the kindle app will highlight the sentence while it’s being read and turn the page automatically). That helps me get through a book quickly because I can still listen when I’m busy. The physical kindle can also read just the ebook electronically out loud. Didn’t know about speechify. That’s cool especially since it would work for non-kindle stuff.
@@gloriagiulia Is this true? I also live in Brazil and the payment option of R$4.92/mo billed as one payment of R$59.00 only appeared once for me and I haven't been able to find this information anywhere else. I have seen many negative comments about the price and the whole thing seems a little shady to me. I am scared of paying the app. Did it work for you? Did they really only charge 60 reais?
thank you so much for sharing speachify... ITS A SERIOUS GAME CHANGER!! If you're interested, i found a free app called 'evie' which follows a similar structure to speachify, but is miles better than speachify (specifically for android) . Thanks again, J
this video really confirms the phrase : “there are no unique messages, only unique messengers” for me. i must’ve heard speechify being mentioned tens of times before, but this video was the one to resonate with me the most and i convinced myself to start using it. especially the comments on your mum’s comment. btw, as an econ student, i really wonder how many people ali abdaal will convince to start a youtube channel, and how this will impact the traffic per youtuber (supply goes up but demand stays the same). i guess i’ll worry about it AFTER i start my channel.. keep up the good work!
I'm trying Speechify right now, but find it a bit frustrating that all the books i've uploaded seem to end up weirdly formatted in the app. I've tried both epub and pdf files. But it ends up with weird random spacing that shouldn't be there, or random words mashed together. Is this something you noticed? How to get around this?
Thanks for the video. Very interesting. I'm trying to compare TTS (text to speech) reader apps at the moment and there are so many to investigate. Perhaps it's the advent of AI, but it's worth pointing out that the subscription you mention of 'about £40' is, as of Nov 2023'' in fact €187, or more than 4 times the 2021 price. Hence the fact that I'm still comparing!
@@joherbert-james Hi Jo, after writing this comment a few months ago I ended up figuring out how to read books with speechify. There is a scanning/taking pictures feature on the app that works pretty well! You can do a search on how to scan books with speechify. Its meant for physical books where you can scan each page but I've found it works best with ebooks. With physical books, the scanning feature worked well for me for a while, but as I got to the middle of the book the pages were too hard to get flat (a large paperback) so the scanner had a hard time reading them or reading them well. But the Speechify scanning feature does very well if you take pictures of your computer screen. I know there are other options out there if you dig into it, but for me, the best option I have found for reading books with speechify is to scan them, and this works particularly well for ebooks on your computer screen rather than physical books although it may work with the physical book depending on various factors.
Good, informative video. A couple of things I might add. There is a difference between readying for speed and reading for comprehension...Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist, was known to read somewhat slow, but he remembered everything he read. Also, when reading a book, it is a going technique stopping once in a while and ask oneself what was just read, thus stopping to repeat in one own words the content that was absorbed; this helps strengthen the memory and the pathway where that information was saved. Regarding Audible, one can make a bookmark and inside of them take notes, which stay with the books you purchased for as long as you have an account, whether you are still paying for the service or not.
I’m using Libby and I am reading a book a week, but if I really want to read a book a day, I think I can... but I have to work too! Since I gave up on Facebook and other useless apps, I have read over 20 books in the last 6-7 months. I read the first 4 books of Harry Potter and still going, read the books of Yuval Harari, Feynman, Napoleon Hill, Stephen Hawking etc... listening is the best way of reading now... I don’t remember who said this: “Culture is what’s left after you forget everything you ever read”. Your speech speed is very good. I’m glad I discovered your channel 👍👍 You just one new subscriber 😊
@@elizabethfilips That is insane! I will give it a shot (with the free version for now). Please tell me where the $80 plan is. If that is for a year, that is not as bad as $139.99. Keep up the great work! Subscribed!
Wow. You have levelled up! You seem so relaxed and comfortable. Good topic too. I would like to have heard a little about how you rate the reading voice and maybe with a sample? And oh, Virginia Wolf? I feel like we can definitely be friends!
It's true that most of the books, however, can be found online easily for free. Don't you think that's morally wrong because, in most cases, that's pirated.
Yeah, @@elizabethfilips ! But skipping the negative connotation around the world it IS a vibe he gives, right? Crazy! BTW, you talk a little bit too fast in your vids. As if you ware on 1.1x or sth. like that. ;)
whoa, whoa. Had to turn the speed to .75 on the video. I think you've been reading a little too fast, now your talking too fast for me. Great video though!
Are u saying u were speaking at 900 wpm when u said it? meaning if I am listening to u at 2X I am listening at 1800 wpm? Do u know how fast the software can go?
You cannot deny that listening to the book takes lesser effort than reading it as well as the point that reading thoroughly gives you better perspective of the content than listening to it . Give credit to reading and the people who actually read and don't pull yourself up to that level ( just to convince yourself and feel good about yourself) and tell that you " Read " Books
I would love to see a video of you talking before you started listening to audiobooks at 900wpms - and see if you only started speaking this fast after. If that offends you, I'm sorry. I meant no Malice. I'm just curious.
I have no idea how I did it, it was ages ago, but if I look at my iOS subscriptions on the App Store, there's sooo many versions of paid Speechify and I'm on the £38 per year one, I'm sooo sorry I don't know exactly what I did to find it!!
In fact the iPhone has a feature in accessibility call spoken content . You can choose any sound , language, speed {0 to 2x} and highlight the sentence and the word is being pronounced. It’s quite similar to speechify
wait what, 900 words per minute? Im just starting out and can barely get past 350 (whilst still taking the information in) But i suppose like everything, the more time you put in the better the results.
@@elizabethfilips I just watched your video with 1.25 speed! Honestly finding speechify has been a godsend! And your video was perfect, thank you so much for your help! I'm an artist myself, and so many art books aren't available with audio! So using this with the books in front of me is just a different level! haha
I read fast as well. I use audiobooks and I listen to them with 2x speed, while taking notes. No, I do not forget most of what I read. The reason is because of the notes. Listen fast, take notes, go through the notes when you finish, do a monologue where you explain what you wrote on your notebook and you should be fine. :)
Selam fellow habesha!
@@selihom - Selam Sister!
must be the shttiest note
You are not Human.
No wonder I can’t catch up your speaking speed even 😄
I'm sorry 😅😅
This app has subconsciously changed the way you talk. You normalized such speeds. Do you not realize you talk extremely fast as a result?😂 great vid btw
the ability to highlight what you just heard is so underrated
I wish I could listen to quantum physics at 900 wpm. 😭
So damn relatable 😭
@The Golden Remnants
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@@idrk1507 going through that type of material at those speeds are impossible to process. Lol think of a teacher who went too fast in a rigorous & very challenging course.
I've read 4 books since watching this video. I hadn't read a book in a while. Thanks!
Amazing 😆😆
@@elizabethfilips had to check my playback speed while listening to this video. You talk so quickly! Is that normal for you or by-product of listening to books on 4x speed? Hehe😅
Do you think listening to audiobooks so quickly has increased the speed at which you talk? Or did you always talk faster than concord?
@@elizabethfilips 😂 No need to apologise, it meant listening to you was very time efficient. I was just worried that between Speechify and Ali you’d been sped up!
i honestly thought it was on 1.5x haha
@@gitarremitmarkus8834 I had to check my playback speed lol
😂Hey Thady I love your reply to her, cause she do talk fast. I used to work to the Airport... and not only she read fast, she talk "Faster Than a Concord" 😂
More specifically you listened to over 100 books in a year. Usually reading is done with your eyes not ears.
You don’t listen to books at 900 words per minute, just tried it and it’s absolutely incomprehensible
Facts. Even 350 wpm is too fast for me.
I tried the app and when I blasted through 3 books in 2 days (100k words) I was informed that I ran out of "HD words" I was so disgusted. It's a really sneaky way to hide the true pricing model so if you are planning on working through a lot of books watch out.
What a great review! Thank you! Especially the part about Audible and the price and the fact that seeing the text in front of you while hearing it speaking enhances the understanding, and it is easier to take up notes. I wish Apple would buy them and integrate their technology as a standard in every device and platform. This is a true game-changer, especially for people with learning, reading, comprehension disabilities.
Please God no. Keep away Apple from a technology that can be used by everyone. If they buy them (or steal their idea) it will stall the improvement.
girl thank you, you inspire me to read books. God bless
speechify is def a scam lol
first ad i get is it trying to guilt trip me over skipping the ad
dont accept their sponsers anymore
If I'm buying books via kindle/amazon how do I use speechify?
It is not reading unless it's only reading. The act of reading with no assistance is very different psychologically. Listening while reading, and especially just listening IS ABSOLUTELY NOT reading.
But this is essentially a commercial isn't it
the minimum plan is $139 a year not 40 a year!
“Read a book and can't remember anything” why waste time reading it in the first place. I would prefer to read 25 books slow and understand what I've read instead of 100 books in a year and remember nothing, what a waste of time. Although I've read over 60 books a year for the last three years, I read at my own pace with no rush.
Did you increase the speed of your audio or that's how fast you can speak, please?
I tried 900 WPM and I only hear chirps. Can you actually understand the words being said or do you use this just to make the text in front of you go by?
Hola, super genial tu vídeo. A veces leo de manera física pero son muy caros los libros, pero la mayoría de libros que leo son digitales y estoy tratando ahora leerlos en inglés también, de manera que también pueda adquirir poco a poco un idioma. Muchas gracias, saludos desde Perú, y por cierto eres muy linda. Exitos!!!
La mayoría de libros los puedes encontrar en la biblioteca.
how are you doing this on speechify with the 150k character limit?
To people's question about "surely you just forget everything":
I remember that some of the best times of my life (times in which I also read the most, most regularly) were had when I would read consistently for its own sake. It would eventually bring me the highest amounts of confidence, creativity and flow I ever felt growing up and... I wasn't looking for any of those effects/outcomes either. Nor was I attempting to retain any particular piece of knowledge. Okok- except perhaps in some of my later teenage years cause, "Oooh fluency; oooh clear thinking; ooh quick witted (felt like I had a response for everything)", but all of that still had come only as a consequence of my interest in reading in the first place, and the sense of "peace" experienced after pushing myself to read a little more than I was comfortable with. It didn't follow from conscious attempts made to absorb any kind information or reaching any particular goal.
All in all, it was stemming from some kind of hunger for the words themselves and the wonder I felt in having it all appear easily in my mind's eye. And a feeling that "I got this" (understood it) and that what I read could almost always be connected to some parts of my life I either experienced or were at least somewhat parallel to them, no matter the genre.
And yet, somehow, without any goal in mind I got everything, and a little more, than I could have possibly gained from the activity had I had a specific rigid memorisation goal or whatever in mind while reading (I believe).
My point is: try reading for reading's sake from time to time. Rinse and repeat. Trust your mind and enjoy yourself. You'll be surprised
Aside:
There's a really good video that this "avid reader on video" up here published, which details pretty perfectly (imo) how to take notes/memorise what you read more effectively. If reading for reading's sake sounds too extreme, that is.
I forget what the video's name is... Pretty meta. But should be easy enough to find. Would recommend (am recommending it).
I changed the playback speed to 0.75x 😂
Some Audible books can have text on the screen but it would have to be a Whisper Sync enabled title. The drawbacks to this are (1) You have to buy both the kindle and audible versions so it can be quite costly and (2) not all titles are Whisper sync enabled (Harry Potter most notably comes to my mind). I do quite enjoy text and audio, it's quite relaxing but it looks like Speechify wins out for versatility and cost. Will definitely have to give it a try sometime!
I've gotta download Speechify after watching this!! 😎
Gonna download now. 🤝
What's the point, though?
There are some books, let's say mythic or artistic, that contain so much depth that you really can't read them quickly, and why would you want to? The process of pondering and exploring the material yields more fruit from life lived as the concepts are being applied and as your knowledge of the material deepens.
I've followed a lot of RUclipsrs touting claims of hundreds of books and . . . when I see their reading list . . . I'm not really inspired. Plus, the real meaty stuff . . . the good stuff . . . It'll take a little time to digest.
By virtue of just the quantity - a 100 books in a year - those books just can't be deep or complex ones. At least, I don't think it's possible for them to be (not if you're already working 50-60 hour weeks). Let's throw Kant, Emerson, or Nietzsche on the list and see if we can keep the train rolling lol
Absolutely! I do mention this in the video! I would never read artistic books fast, Nietzsche is one of my favourite to read and I take it suuuuper slow and re-read paragraphs for ages and take time away in between the book to think and write about them - it takes me months to go through his work.
This is more for pop-psychology and recent books - the whole thing may make one or two good points, and I'll take those slow to digest, the rest is just killing it with examples to me 😅
@@elizabethfilips My bad! Didn't realize that. lol. I'm currently reading Jung's Psychology and Alchemy Vol 1 - and it's going very slowly. Often that's all the time I have - an hour here or there, so I find it's really hard for me to get in any quantity (thought I do listen to an audio book here and there).
Do you find it's valuable listening to say . . . so much volume, when you only get a handful of nuggets? Are the nuggets usually worth it?
@@Graham-Christian Oh no worries at all! I've never read Jung before, been on my list for AGES! I can definitely relate to that type of reading though haha
In regards to listening to volume, I would say absolutely yes. I'll try to explain my reasoning
Even though the book distills down to just one point, that single point (of a decent book) is usually worth knowing. Having read a few thousand words on it (even at a very high speed) will bombard you with examples that will consolidate the concept in such a way that it truly becomes one you can apply and 'understand'.
I have a 'second brain' where I'll gather all the main points of books, write a few sentences on what they mean to me and what I understood from them, and then categorise them by topics. So on many different things in life, I always have ready-made resources for myself! As a mega-nerd, I massively enjoy this!
I think Nietzsche and Ryan Holiday for example have very different sorts of value to add to my life, and so I approach and process them differently, but I still find it's a great benefit!
When I'm using Speechify on Kindle.I have to keep pressing play on each page.Which ruins the audio experience...because it just doesn't continuously read.....And I can't figure out the settings to make it just read the book
This video feels like watching at 2x even though its not🤣
🤣🤣🤣.... Faster than my internet connection.
I was a political philosophy major in college, and I read VERY slowly. It's a good habit for philosophical texts, but I am trying to retrain myself for other types of text. It's been a lifelong struggle for me. Thank you for this method: I shall try it.
can you make a video explaining how you make your notes from the books you read 🥺
Thank you! They should definitely sponsor you. I just downloaded the app and so far it’s great. I think I’ll only use it for academic reading. I’m in law school so it’s also quite a lot and I always feel overwhelmed since I’m quite a slow reader 😅
You're welcome, and I love it for academic reading too, love to hear it 😆
@@elizabethfilips you are so beautiful
How it helps law school?
I'm listening to this video at 2.4x speed by using Video Speed Controller. So Speechify sounds great. Typically I can listen to videos at 3.8 - 4.4 or so
Sameee!!
I do not recommend this extension!
OMG! You changed my life!! Thank you!!
I will always prefer to read slowly. I enjoy the journey of it rather than seeing The End.
I love the app, however recently I have had issue with the app that its sand glass just spinning and turning, and I have to twait and wait for it to stop so it starts to read for me. Many times, it wont start to read at all. I tried to close the app and restart or clear cache etc. The results were working again, or still not working. it became unpredictable and frustrating. I hope they can look into it and make improvement. Did you ever have.this problem? Thanks!
One interesting thing is that when I set the speed at 3 in English, I could hardly comprehand the reading, but in Chinese @3x, I actually understand the materials pretty well, maybe at 80%. It shows my English is still not that good.
How do you read 100 books a year when speechify only gives you 150,000 words a month with a premium subscription? Sounds crazy expensive to me!
I like to combine the audible narration and the kindle ebook. You can read, then switch to audio, or even do both at the same time (kindle or the kindle app will highlight the sentence while it’s being read and turn the page automatically). That helps me get through a book quickly because I can still listen when I’m busy. The physical kindle can also read just the ebook electronically out loud. Didn’t know about speechify. That’s cool especially since it would work for non-kindle stuff.
"Listening book is like drinking food.."- Naval Ravikant
Sorry, but Moon Reader Pro does the same, using Google voices, at a price I can afford here in Brazil.
A yearly Speechify Premium subscription is R$4.92/mo billed as one payment of R$59.00
I think it is worth it
@@gloriagiulia Is this true? I also live in Brazil and the payment option of R$4.92/mo billed as one payment of R$59.00 only appeared once for me and I haven't been able to find this information anywhere else. I have seen many negative comments about the price and the whole thing seems a little shady to me. I am scared of paying the app. Did it work for you? Did they really only charge 60 reais?
In my whole YT life, I never had to play at slower speed, until now
I bet you thought you turned the speed up and forgot to adjust it back at first
When god was giving out talents at birth this girl overdosed on beauty and brains 👌🏾
Absolutely 👌
thank you so much for sharing speachify... ITS A SERIOUS GAME CHANGER!!
If you're interested, i found a free app called 'evie' which follows a similar structure to speachify, but is miles better than speachify (specifically for android) .
Thanks again, J
this video really confirms the phrase : “there are no unique messages, only unique messengers” for me. i must’ve heard speechify being mentioned tens of times before, but this video was the one to resonate with me the most and i convinced myself to start using it. especially the comments on your mum’s comment. btw, as an econ student, i really wonder how many people ali abdaal will convince to start a youtube channel, and how this will impact the traffic per youtuber (supply goes up but demand stays the same). i guess i’ll worry about it AFTER i start my channel.. keep up the good work!
I'm trying Speechify right now, but find it a bit frustrating that all the books i've uploaded seem to end up weirdly formatted in the app. I've tried both epub and pdf files. But it ends up with weird random spacing that shouldn't be there, or random words mashed together. Is this something you noticed? How to get around this?
I’m having the same issues. Wish I could find some help with it. Considering getting rid of the app
Thanks for the video. Very interesting. I'm trying to compare TTS (text to speech) reader apps at the moment and there are so many to investigate. Perhaps it's the advent of AI, but it's worth pointing out that the subscription you mention of 'about £40' is, as of Nov 2023'' in fact €187, or more than 4 times the 2021 price. Hence the fact that I'm still comparing!
How do you read books with speechify? For me speechify works with websites, pdfs, etc., but not for Kindle or ebooks.
I’m looking for an answer to this too!
@@joherbert-james Hi Jo, after writing this comment a few months ago I ended up figuring out how to read books with speechify. There is a scanning/taking pictures feature on the app that works pretty well! You can do a search on how to scan books with speechify. Its meant for physical books where you can scan each page but I've found it works best with ebooks. With physical books, the scanning feature worked well for me for a while, but as I got to the middle of the book the pages were too hard to get flat (a large paperback) so the scanner had a hard time reading them or reading them well. But the Speechify scanning feature does very well if you take pictures of your computer screen. I know there are other options out there if you dig into it, but for me, the best option I have found for reading books with speechify is to scan them, and this works particularly well for ebooks on your computer screen rather than physical books although it may work with the physical book depending on various factors.
Good, informative video. A couple of things I might add. There is a difference between readying for speed and reading for comprehension...Stephen Hawking, the famous theoretical physicist, was known to read somewhat slow, but he remembered everything he read. Also, when reading a book, it is a going technique stopping once in a while and ask oneself what was just read, thus stopping to repeat in one own words the content that was absorbed; this helps strengthen the memory and the pathway where that information was saved. Regarding Audible, one can make a bookmark and inside of them take notes, which stay with the books you purchased for as long as you have an account, whether you are still paying for the service or not.
I’m using Libby and I am reading a book a week, but if I really want to read a book a day, I think I can... but I have to work too! Since I gave up on Facebook and other useless apps, I have read over 20 books in the last 6-7 months. I read the first 4 books of Harry Potter and still going, read the books of Yuval Harari, Feynman, Napoleon Hill, Stephen Hawking etc... listening is the best way of reading now... I don’t remember who said this: “Culture is what’s left after you forget everything you ever read”.
Your speech speed is very good. I’m glad I discovered your channel 👍👍 You just one new subscriber 😊
900? How do you understand a thing? Also, great video, but speechify is so expensive $140/year. Is there any way around this?
@@elizabethfilips That is insane! I will give it a shot (with the free version for now). Please tell me where the $80 plan is. If that is for a year, that is not as bad as $139.99. Keep up the great work! Subscribed!
Nice !
But... But... Epubs don't open nicely (or properly) in speechify. I really wish it did. Genuinely. I've tried.
Never knew this app existed! Looks so awesome!! Will definitely be trying this!
Wow. You have levelled up! You seem so relaxed and comfortable. Good topic too. I would like to have heard a little about how you rate the reading voice and maybe with a sample? And oh, Virginia Wolf? I feel like we can definitely be friends!
Didn't know about Speechify, thanks for the rec, and great video!
It's true that most of the books, however, can be found online easily for free. Don't you think that's morally wrong because, in most cases, that's pirated.
been a few months, surprised that Audible hasn't acquired Speechify, or outdone them yet!!
I called Ali a snob (assumptions thread) and he had to googl it. And you just used the word "snobbish" perfectly. How's that even a thing...?! 😅
Yeah, @@elizabethfilips ! But skipping the negative connotation around the world it IS a vibe he gives, right? Crazy! BTW, you talk a little bit too fast in your vids. As if you ware on 1.1x or sth. like that. ;)
No need to apologize,@@elizabethfilips! Just sth that could improve your videos. Maybe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Keep up the great work! :)
I didn’t know about that app. Really happy you made me discover it
Putting the speed of this video at 0.75x will be great......!🤣
Ohk yess this app seems good I'm a student and will found this more useful in time of my exams where I have to revise every -word
It feels like the video has been edited at 900 wpm lol chill! 😄
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whoa, whoa. Had to turn the speed to .75 on the video. I think you've been reading a little too fast, now your talking too fast for me. Great video though!
I just read 4 Playboy magazines using the app. Side not has she sped up her video?
Are u saying u were speaking at 900 wpm when u said it? meaning if I am listening to u at 2X I am listening at 1800 wpm? Do u know how fast the software can go?
Awesome Elizabeth. Listening to your videos its refreshing and insightful. Kudos! :)
Thank youu
@@elizabethfilips Take care buddy :)
Hi. You mentioned importing iBooks into Speechify? Any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.
I airdrop them to speechify on my phone :)
How do you highlight text on speechify????????
Can anyone tell me?
Just Smart and Amazing girl 🙏
you're very special 🎉🤲
Reading books, unless they are "how to", are over 90% shit subnitrate.
You're all scaring me, I'm using even this at a slow speed. Is something wrong with my brain? Lmao
THe add said "it's s free chrombook extension" yet you actually have to pay.
That point about forgetting is golden. Great review, thanks.
Fast reading leads to low comprehension imo. If i really need to know something I'll just read it.
I don't know if I can tell it here ,you are beautiful 😁 and I read 14 Books last 3 months .
how come it costed you $40. to me it's showing 130 bucks
I watch RUclips on 2x and I wish I could make it go faster.
Did you try the highlighting and note taking features in Speechify? How do you find it?
you shouldn't call it reading a book , it should be called listening to the book
Reading it at the same time too though!
You cannot deny that listening to the book takes lesser effort than reading it as well as the point that reading thoroughly gives you better perspective of the content than listening to it . Give credit to reading and the people who actually read and don't pull yourself up to that level ( just to convince yourself and feel good about yourself) and tell that you " Read " Books
Do let me know what you think of this 👆
She talks so fast I kept checking the video to see if I was playing it at 1.5 speed.
I would love to see a video of you talking before you started listening to audiobooks at 900wpms - and see if you only started speaking this fast after. If that offends you, I'm sorry. I meant no Malice. I'm just curious.
I had to check to see if I had RUclips on normal speed, because you speak so quickly hah
I feel like I am using Speechify when listening to you lol.
your eyes are just awesome.lov from India..
Be kind to yourself and to others. good point/
40 pounds a year? Here in Spain it says 383,88€ a year! Maybe an app error? 😔
Elizabeth is Speedify. 😆😂
😂😂😂
If I read books in a speed I don't understand or remember anything
On iOS it's 134 pounds per year now. How do I get 40£ per year plan.
I have no idea how I did it, it was ages ago, but if I look at my iOS subscriptions on the App Store, there's sooo many versions of paid Speechify and I'm on the £38 per year one, I'm sooo sorry I don't know exactly what I did to find it!!
Humans remember what they want to remember.
900 wpm you’re just being silly
It sounds like she's speaking at 2x speed. Jesus!
Do you remember everything you read?
Your voice sounds like one of the premium voices in the app
Hello! I am Brazilian and I loved your speed when speaking! ^^
yes
I only use speechify for college books or articles.
Slow down girl lol. You remind me of my insurance agent trying to upgrade my policy.
In fact the iPhone has a feature in accessibility call spoken content . You can choose any sound , language, speed {0 to 2x} and highlight the sentence and the word is being pronounced. It’s quite similar to speechify
wait what, 900 words per minute? Im just starting out and can barely get past 350 (whilst still taking the information in) But i suppose like everything, the more time you put in the better the results.
@@elizabethfilips I just watched your video with 1.25 speed! Honestly finding speechify has been a godsend! And your video was perfect, thank you so much for your help! I'm an artist myself, and so many art books aren't available with audio! So using this with the books in front of me is just a different level! haha