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Show Fast reading is developed Rapid learning and accumulation accumu-lation of knowledge has generally gen-erally been restricted to those with speed-reading ability. At Bell Telephone Laboratories, Laborator-ies, however, a substitute for fast reading has been developed. develop-ed. An electronic device, the harmonic compressor, permits the recording of the human voice at twice its normal speed without any distortion. The discovery amounts to eliminating the high pitched and squeaky quality of a recording re-cording which is played at too-fast too-fast a speed, such as the "Chipmunks" of recording fame. With the device, a person could listen to a 60-minute speech in 30 minutes or less. According to Jack Dalton, district mgr. for the phone company, the development has special significance for blind . persons. He said the American Foundation for the Blind is studying the possible use of compressed speech in its tape and disc recording program. Future prospects include the possibility of recording textbooks, text-books, news articles, novels, etc. to be "speed-heard" with perfect per-fect understanding by trained listeners, said Dalton. |