At Medium and Speechify, we’re at all times exploring new methods to make content material extra accessible. That’s why we’re excited to share that Speechify is offered to all Medium members with the launch of Medium’s Pay attention function. Any Medium member can click on the “Pay attention” button on the high of most tales to listen to an audio model learn aloud from a lot of narrators. Customers who aren’t Medium members can be invited to join membership.
Because the launch of our partnership, Medium members have instructed us that audio has helped them eat extra tales than ever earlier than – as much as 3 times as many. Audio helps folks take heed to Medium articles throughout the day once they usually wouldn’t be studying: whereas happening walks, commuting, exercising, doing chores, doing different issues on their pc, and even as they go to sleep.
We’ve additionally heard many members inform us they maintain data higher once they have an opportunity to hear and skim on the similar time. It is a new means of consuming content material that our partnership helps – Speechify highlights textual content because it reads the audio out loud to you.
“When figuring out, I used to learn on my telephone between units. Now, it’s a lot simpler with audio — I can take heed to many extra articles than I might learn earlier than.” — Jess, Medium listener
From every little thing we’ve heard, we consider the Speechify play button on Medium could make your expertise with Medium extra fulfilling and versatile.
A Magical Option to Learn Extra
When you love studying, you most likely have an extended record of articles bookmarked. Now you can use the Pay attention function to make your means by means of that record quicker. Speechify additionally means that you can change your listening velocity. Some customers take heed to articles at 2-3x the traditional listening velocity. You’ll be able to take heed to articles at as much as 4.5x the traditional velocity. Velocity listening is a productiveness hack for a lot of, and we’re excited to make it simpler for you.
A Instrument for Proofreading
We’ve heard that writers discover the Pay attention function useful once they’re proofreading their drafts. Sentences usually sound totally different whenever you learn them out loud, and we’re excited to assist our neighborhood of creators enhance the tales they convey to life. To take heed to one in every of your drafts, you’ll be able to click on the “…” button in Medium’s net editor, then choose “share draft hyperlink,” go to that hyperlink your self, and click on the Pay attention button.
Making Studying Straightforward
By some estimates, one in 5 folks faces dyslexia, which may make conventional studying troublesome. Many individuals even have visible impairment. Via our listening possibility, we intention to decrease the barrier to studying and delight throughout Medium.
How You Can Take heed to Medium with Speechify
Yow will discover the Pay attention button on the high of a Medium story. Whenever you press this button by way of net browser, as a logged-in Medium member, the story textual content is learn to you and also you’ll see the phrases highlighted as you go.
All of us have our personal tastes. When you’d prefer to take heed to a voice aside from the default possibility, you’ll be able to choose a brand new one by clicking the voice button within the backside left nook.
Within the backside proper nook, you’ll be able to click on the velocity button to regulate the playback velocity from 0.5x to 4.5x.
Blissful listening!
– Group Medium & Group Speechify
