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TheReadTime was designed from the ground up with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Just 10-15 minutes of  usage (or playing around?) will give you a solid grasp of the software, enabling you to fine-tune it to your needs. Instructions on basic functionality like speed reading and enabling text-to-speech can be found here: Usage Instructions

The context display feature of our speed reader has 3 modes: Off, Single-Line and Multi-Line. Below is a visual representation of how the speed reading space looks like in each of these modes:

Off : When context mode is off, only the defined number of words are displayed at the center of the screen. This is what we refer to as the focal text.

Single-Line: In single-line mode, in addition to the single word or phrase (depending on the chosen words at a time value), we see a trailing line of text in lighter shade for context.

Multi-Line: In multi-line mode, we see 6 additional lines before and after the focal and trailing line of text for even greater context.

Currently, text to speech only supports 1 word at a time. When you enable TTS via the toggle button, the words at a time value on the speed reader defaults to 1 by design.

Yes, by design, the below two settings do not apply when TTS is enabled:

1. Sentence End Punctuation Pause Time
2. Read Titles at Once