Show Be Bell Laboratory Discovers Speed Hearing Rapid learning and accumulation accumulation accumulation lation of knowledge has generally generally generally gen gen- been restricted to those thosa with speed-reading speed ability At Bell Telephone laboratories ies however a substitute for fast reading has been developed An electronic device the harmonic harmonic harmonic har har- monic 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 which is played at too fast a speed such as the Chipmunks recordings With the device a person could listen to a 60 minute speech in 30 minutes or less The development has special significance for blind persons The American Foundation forthe forthe for forthe the Blind is studying the possible possible possible ble use of compressed speech in its tape and disc recording programs Future prospects include the possibility of recording textbooks textbooks textbooks text text- books news articles novels etc to be Speed heard with perfect understanding by trained listeners |