GnomeRSVP
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See the Icebreaker.Net main page for more information on the future of GnomeRSVP!
What is Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP)?
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation is the process of blasting words onto the screen. In this dynamic representation of text, each word is flashed on the screen one at a time in succession. The reader is less inclined to “oralize” the text, rather the reader interprets whole words as meaningful written symbols. Automatic re-reading of adjacent previous text is therefore rendered impossible. This results in much higher reading speeds than are possible with conventional techniques.
Current Features
GnomeRSVP at this time provides the following features:
- Gnome compliance
- Font Selection
- Color Selection
- Text, HTML, and PDF file support
- Session Support
- Remembers Last Location and Position
- URL support!
- Variable speed from 120 to 6000 words per minute
Planned Features
As development increases expect to see the following:
- Support for more file formats
- Read from buffer
- Bookmarks
Download
Follow the links below to download the current developers release.
CVS support will be added shortly
Requirements:
Gnome 1.4
Gtk+ 1.2
Gtk Perl (version >= 0.7006 required)
UNIX:
Gnome RSVP 1.4 TGZ 22KB
Gnome RSVP 1.4 i386 RPM 11KB
Gnome RSVP 1.4 SRPM 24KB
Links
If you find GnomeRSVP interesting check out the following links:
Stepware’s AceReader - RSVP software for Windows
Nooface.Net - A look at new ideas in user interfaces. (Includes an article on GnomeRSVP!)
Project Gutenberg - A great place to grab some books to read with GnomeRSVP
Optimizing Reading - A paper about RSVP
Applying the RSVP Technique to Small Screens - Master’s Thesis of Karin Sicheritz