How I Read Really Fast - 3x Speed with Speechify

[@Hall]

As a lawyer, I have researched many speed reading methodologies to improve my reading speed. The approach you presented is the only one that has worked for me. With so many myths about speed reading, your practical advice is much appreciated.

[@yathprem]

Ali: guys this thing changed my life.. 2x.. lol Liz: broooo 3x tho!!

[@yathprem]

@@elizabethfilips Some say the official typing speed scale is 0-Ali

[@haswisdom]

I never knew that listening to rap music in my teens (especially artist like Twista, who raps really fast) would be so beneficial to me now. It was like brain training for watching and listening to content at 2x or 3x the speed.

[@beakless_duck]

I was watching this video on 2x. When the audio clip at 900wpm came on, my brain exploded

[@elizabethfilips]

Ah soz 😂

[@joshbird7637]

Had the exact same reaction haha

[@RayvenMichelle]

Hahaha. SAME!!! 😂

[@OlesyaLuraschi]

I now have a hard time watching or listening to things in normal speed, it can be a challenge watching things with people who aren't in to this lol! Great video :)

[@abdullahe3674]

Plz note: side effect the world becomes to slow and you would die of boredom And lectures will lever bee the same

[@ann8786]

You’re not only a fast reader, you’re also a fast speaker.

[@steniorodrigo5590]

yes. It's hard for me to understand her. :(

[@randomniche1345]

how to retain the information of the book if you read it at such high speed?

[@speakingfreely6770]

See with non fiction, the idea is to retain broad concepts than information, which is why speed reading works there.

[@damatmatman]

Picked up a book from a thrift store called evelins woods speed reading and the concept was interesting. Essential you go through it speed reading about 5 times in the course of an hour just making brain connections with key words then you finally read it

[@Darkknight9035]

"According to google the avg speed of reading is 300wpm" ADHD people: Yeah?

[@rizanjabir]

Im an Anaesthetic Doctor. And I was not used to be a book reader.. Recently you people are making me urged to read books.. Im with Speechify and ordered my first ever book "THE 4 HOUR WORK WEEK"

[@brandonten-fah782]

"I thought speed reading would make me popular in school" 😆 Questionable 🤣 That aside, great tips! Speed reading audiobooks made me read far more than I think I would've bothered to try to read otherwise.

[@harrythebookworm]

I think your KZbin channel is great, as it feels like a friend is giving tips and tricks! Doesn’t feel overly commercial

[@lparesse]

my current combo: Read Aloud chrome extension + Kindle web app/any web page. and thanks for being an inspiration!

[@joeldarlong3196]

Thanks for all the wonderful video, I’m a surgical resident from India and at first I was hesitant but after i saw your post I downloaded and start using it I’m seeing the improvement in my reading 😀.

[@YogaRove]

You are brilliant! I never thought to multiple the speed using this app. Thank you for creating this video Elizabeth! You rock!

[@randomniche1345]

as a person with adhd, im shocked that this is even humanly possible

[@MixedAfro]

Hi Elizabeth, thanks for the recommendation! Where do you download your books from?

[@hamedhussain7562]

Now I know why Ali is so popular. It's not him, it's you. 😂

[@elizabethfilips]

LOL

[@shaihadi]

I found this extremely useful because I struggle SO much with the verbal reasoning in the UCAT and being able to learn how to read faster is going to help sooo much ❤️ thank you so much for sharing this 💕

[@stefanmitf739]

May I ask, where you get the pdf versions of the books you read? :) This would be really helpful!!

[@RainaOnTheCusp]

What a helpful video! That is an incredible reading speed 😮

[@israelPoplife]

Nothing screams popularity in high school like speed reading.

[@Fran_de_la_Torre]

Great Tool! I've tried all stuff you mentioned without any luck... Excited to try speechify, I'll let you know..Appreciated!

[@lgdneuro9586]

Damn, Instant subscription, this is gold. Keep going this is the stuff I love. Also adding to your comments about using your eyes, there is quite a bit of research about the relationship between the use of the eyes on images or text while listening about what you are seeing, there exist activation of speech areas in the frontal and temporal cortex, aswell as the Amygdala. Source: My memory from neurosurgery residency, quite a few years ago I dont read about that.

[@elizabethfilips]

YES thank you for this so much!! Love to find real research backing my random experiments hhaha

[@Yahya-Khan]

This video is extremely helpful and life changing. Thank you❤️

[@SimplyAubs]

Thank you so much for making this video! I have *wanted* to increase my reading speed for a LONG time but didn't know how. This really helped! Thanks!

[@elizabethfilips]

Ah good luck with it!!!

[@harbin88]

How do you read ebooks in Kindle app in cellphone? Also, you said that when the spped is at 3x, you could not comprehend the voice either. So why dont you lower the sound just read the speechfy screen? Does that work?

[@jorgesolanilla7202]

Hey! Great advice. I have been listening to podcast and Audible at 2.5X, it takes time to get use to the higher speed but it is worth it. Where do you get the books you upload to Speechify? Any recommendations? Thanks!

[@elizabethfilips]

For ethical purposes... 'online' 😅

[@jorgesolanilla7202]

@@elizabethfilips 😉

[@carminemonterossi9358]

Good job Elizabeth

[@jeyanth.varshan]

Hey, the videos are so good! It would be so cool to listen to you if you had had better audio quality. Waiting for this improvisation in your videos. 😊

[@jeyanth.varshan]

@@elizabethfilips Thank you 🙏🏻. I never expected a reply from you because most KZbinrs don't nor have I got any. I have no problem in waiting for the improvement. 👍🏻

[@hardik.solanki]

Hi Elizabeth! This is amazing video and it's too much useful.

[@hardik.solanki]

Thnx for like Elizabeth!

[@papl20]

This is amazing, I've always struggled with reading fast, I'm obsessed with being a speed reader because it has been a problem for me, and yet I listen to things (videos, audiobooks, podcasts, etc.) with double the speed. Thank you, amazing content, as always!

[@elizabethfilips]

Thank you Paula!

[@zmix]

Ironically, I'm listening to this video at 2x speed..

[@johnmor3541]

Speechify is amazing, specially on the iPad they have this “celebrity #2” man that sounds exactly like a human. Started at 400wpm 3weeks ago, now I’m reading between 550-565wpm

[@akeefaziyauddin8342]

This was a damn helpful video!! Especially for med aspirants! Thanks alot for this❤

[@akeefaziyauddin8342]

means alot a reply from you!!

[@Aremumyke]

This was a super helpful video. Always wanted to increase my reading speed and this would surely help. The Android app is still in beta stage so it'll be good to stick with a chrome extension for now.

[@adcashmo]

I use the word runner function in the Audible Android app. No sounds, just individual words flashing before you on the otherwise empty screen. I'm nowhere near 900wpm so I'll try speechify too. Thanks!!

[@danielwhitfield2990]

That’s unimaginable I’m dyslexic and can barely read half the average speed

[@sazprodj]

Very helpful advice and tips. What speed reading tips for text books. I am grad student and I read much slower and always behind.

[@therescuer9411]

1st like from...🇮🇳

[@SusheeNzeutem]

Great video as always! Does speechify works with audible?

[@AlejandroGarcia_elviejo]

I went ahead and downloaded speechify right in the middle of this video... I'm also a fan of speed reading and I think having the text highlight sync with the audio really helps. The robotic voices are good, not as good as audible's real vocies, but at 800 WPM the difference almost doesn't matter. And as you said non-fiction books sucha as outliers, freakonomics, etc. have many anecdotes too make the subject approachable and friendly... but at the same time if you go over them quckly it's going to be ok.

[@PrabhavKashyapGodavarthy]

How often do you use speechify vs reading a book the ‘normal’ way?

[@tonyhtran]

I been reading and watching at x2.3 times the speed. Didn't know this applies to reading books. Life goals up to 900 like Liz here I come. (does stop at times because i have terrible vocabulary bank haha)

[@elizabethfilips]

Yeeee go for it!

[@tatah678]

Powerful tool girl!

[@profilters1535]

Thank you for this elizabeth 😊

[@filiphoxhaj2430]

I am eager to make mine this method!

[@aimansba7972]

hello.. may i ask what camera you use for recording the video?

[@saint.adrian]

How do you set up youtube for 3x? I can only do that in amazon music/podcasts

[@theattentionist]

Great video. Question - do you use a pc or mac at all - or do you only use your phone for all the Speechify business?

[@elizabethfilips]

Thank you! I use phone only when it comes to books, trying the web version soon for books too hopefully :)

[@sepiawatanabe2922]

what was the format when you downloaded the book? Thank you!

[@carlosandressorianogonzale1523]

Thanks for this video!!!

[@marcusdavenport9847]

You made another Speechify video lol I am curious about the free plan vs what you get in higher plans.

[@kusulas24]

pay 300dlls by year :(. I prefer/want pay monthly. How I can do it spechify?. I love epub files and I use google book, have option audiobook but is slow.

[@beastnation9008]

Hey how do you highlight the Important stuff on speechify?????pls reply

[@kevinhughes9801]

Excellent video great tips thank you

[@elizabethfilips]

Thank youu 🙏

[@siberianhusky5516]

Hey Elizabeth, Great Video btw. I have a qs would you have any advice on how to deal with fomo for example I want to read all the books I encounter and I want to watch all the useful content on KZbin, I know that this is not possible and that I have to start from somewhere but I still have fomo.

[@siberianhusky5516]

@@elizabethfilips WOW. Thank so much for replying your response helped A LOT. You deserve all the success you will get...people like you restore my faith in humanity!

[@jasminefremdehake2354]

But its not about speed but about how much you can absorb of a book .

[@mrdub5476]

Hi Elizabeth. If 900 words per minute is too slow, could you create a screen recording of the book being read and then play that video back faster? (Please pardon me if that has already been suggested. Also, thanks for this video. Brava.)

[@Midalias25]

I want to read faster and I also see the point that reading faster helps reading more. I guess I’m in the point in life when my mind is asking me to slow down. I feel I’m always in a hurry to do this, then this other thing, that reading that fast doesn’t seem appealing. I’m glad some of you enjoy it though.

[@Alba-ig9hy]

I've started listening to books around 26 y/o. and I've been doing this very thing since the beginning. But, with a few tricks you can do this on a mac without the app. At the moment I am on 700wpm, I used to leave it at 500wpm and never thought of changing it. I do have the book open on the back (as a txt file - wink wink) so i make highlights whilst listening QUESTION OF CLARIFICATION: are you saying this made you a speed reader, as in you can now read fast without the app or do you mean you consume the audio fast? Because I still read pretty slow (it might be cause I don't follow the text that much) is the moving highlighter thing making you a fast reader?

[@Alba-ig9hy]

@@sepi846 pirate ebooks, converted to text, and on a mac you convert text to audio

[@TheShabooka]

ur crazy i like it !

[@marywhite4243]

How do you watch youtube at 3x speed?

[@superchris1511]

Hey Elizabeth love the channel, I’m dyslexic and have been looking for a way to read faster to help me in the UCAT Has this helped you read faster without speechify? For example when you’re reading a book (assuming it’s not for pleasure)?

[@harrydotkld]

Hi I don’t know if you will see this but do you know how to listen to epubs using speechify or do I have to convert to pdf

[@harrydotkld]

@@elizabethfilips Loml thank you so much

[@rahmanshariff2160]

Can u plz help me to select medical university.

[@mariacastano5046]

Hi! Thanks for the video, I would like to know are you truly able to understand and retain what you are reading?

[@elizabethfilips]

I slow down whenever it's something important! Or completely stop the app and read and re-read the paragraph. I use this method of speed-reading for pop-psychology and more 'recent' books which make 1/2 good points and have a whole lot of examples I can understand fairly easily at high speeds. Hope that makes sense! 😅

[@mariacastano5046]

@@elizabethfilips Thank you !

[@rezaabdollahi2858]

Is there an entrance exam to enter the univasity in England?

[@agatafrydrych4335]

OK great, but.. how you making any notes during consuming book in this way?

[@senamuku]

Thanks for the advice! I’ve been stuck at 600wpm since New Years - if I would spend 30mins-1hr a day using speechify would you say a monthly increase by +100wpm is feasible?

[@zp7026]

Thanks for sharing! I haven't understood: you use speechify as a training tool to read hardcover books at 900 wpm speed? If you manage to read at 900 wpm, at what speed would you skim a text? I hope you will share more tips in the future for beginners: I am very slow in reading and haven't really figured out how to speed the process: it may take me a day or more to read a fiction book!

[@zp7026]

@@elizabethfilips great! I have also seen your other video on speechify! Congrats for your results! 🔝💪🏻

[@amritpandey5116]

And yeah one more thing a medical student with so much task switching boy oh boy its really not gonna take long for u to have an assistant and if this happens feel free to approach me 🙂.😛 Ur content rocks !!!!

[@nordenlashangderpalama8876]

900 too slow. ohh myyyy what is thisss. you started at 700. ohhhh myyyyyyyy. that is amazing.

[@sohailkhanahmed4622]

Beautiful wonderful marvellous Elizabeth. Good British English

[@DimitrisChrrr]

Great video! I downloaded the app, but sadly I have to pay 150 euros a year straight up after just 3 days... And this is in order to access "normal" voices, automatic speed ramping, etc... Too bad because I was very hyped about Speechify :(

[@Nature-b5s]

Super video 👍

[@2minuteschool929]

decision its the main thing in the field🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[@rajsekharkaran4005]

Your speach is encourageble 👍👍

[@BastinEnga]

Please could you tell me the name of that application you used to read book very fast. I am really interested in your videos

[@gloriagiulia]

Speechify is the name of the app

[@Pameliux23]

It’s 149 euros here!! Too expensive! I tried it for 3 days and love it! You said you are in 40$ plan? How?!

[@elizabethfilips]

There’s a bunch of plans in the Apple store! It’s really hard to navigate, I can’t even remember how I found mine 😅

[@leookada2402]

It's funny how everyone talks about speed reading but I yet have to see a single demo or evidence that someone can actually do it and recite what they've read.

[@DarkPa1adin]

does it really improve your reading speed without speecify?

[@elizabethfilips]

I found it has, but I can't stick to that speed for long if I don't have speechify. I get tired and just stop haah

[@ahmedyosryd]

is it wise to use it with my college textbooks?

[@elizabethfilips]

At low/normal speed, yes. I think fast I wouldn't understand a thing 😅

[@anonymous_246]

Are you on Goodreads ?

[@jackiehuang5391]

Is this app free to use?

[@j_li]

Thanks for the great tips as always! :D Similar to @Hasan Murad's question, would be curious also to know how do you make notes while using Speechify :D Or, as you said you'd read literature at normal speed - then do you take notes afterwards / as you're reading it? :) Thanksss! by the way, I think the link in the description on "My other video on reading over 100 books" is broken :)

[@j_li]

@@elizabethfilips Thank you so much :) Looking forward to learning more productivity related tips from people like yourself! :D

[@sekhmet1379]

Did you paint those paintings in the background?

[@elizabethfilips]

Yep :)

[@WeiYinChan]

The problem with speechify is that it's so expensive? $20 a month is just too much for a text-to-speech app. And I have been using the free mechanical voice for a while which is great, but lately they don't let me speed it up pass a certain speed unless I subscribe for premium. The more annoying thing is everywhere I look, the price is difference, there are review saying it's like $7 a month or $76 a year but the plan the offered me is like $20 a month...

[@SampsfaN]

Watching this video on 2x speed, I can now read at 1800wpm😍

[@elizabethfilips]

Dead 😂

[@SampsfaN]

@@elizabethfilips oh my I thought it was pretty lame, doctors do have a low bar for their sense of humour 😂

[@tusharmishra4340]

In order to understand the video you must reduce the speed of the video. 😊

[@peachypeach6653]

Is the App only for training or is she reading all her books with it?

[@brineman5034]

wow that's amazing i am still stuck at 2x speed :)

[@abdullahe3674]

How do you wrap up the speed of KZbin? Because on general settings you can only go up to x2

[@elizabethfilips]

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en

[@abdullahe3674]

@@elizabethfilipsBless you Dear Dr Filips! yeah your corner of the internet is one of a kind :)

[@watermelonxmomo]

How much information do you think you are retaining with this? :)

[@SerenaShah]

hey!! i just wanted to ask if im seeing the price wrong or something LOL, i just tried to sign up to speechify and its saying per year its £134.99 haha but on the video i think it says £40 / year? i think they might have increased the price 😭🥺

[@elizabethfilips]

I'm not sure how I did it! When I look at my buying options in the Apple Store, Im on the £38 per year option, but I tried to look at the website and there only was the £134.99 option! I think it might be worth messaging the customer service, but I'm so sorry I can't be more helpful!

[@SerenaShah]

@@elizabethfilips NOOO this was so helpful! thank you for replying, i really appreciate it!! For now because i'm not so sure how long term ill be using this - i want to try it first and i found a free option!! its called speech central and its pretty much the same thing (but you can highlight in the app too sort of )- i was also fiddling around with the idea of note taking while doing this, do you have any recommendations? i usually write notes in my physical books (but with audible i get so frustrated) but i think ill just have notability on the side to write down thoughts/ how it applies to me, how i can implement it etc - what do you think? :) sending lots of love and positivity!!

[@elizabethfilips]

@@SerenaShah Hiya Shiv! Thank you so much for that - I take notes in a very complicated way, I'm not sure it's the best but here it goes: I copy notes from the book in Speechify and add them to Apple Notes as I'm reading (I'll add my own notes there in brackets too) In the end I'll export them to a new Notion page and sort them out. It's two steps, but mobile notion is so slow I can't go straight there! Hope that helps and all the best xx

[@SerenaShah]

@@elizabethfilips Omg thank you so much for replying so indepth to me! honestly i appreciate it so much!! interesting, i feel like lowkey your way is sooo much more efficient because that way its already in text form and you wouldnt be typing this stuff out! ill defo have to try this out :)) THANK YOU AGAIN

[@speakingfreely6770]

Amazing. I keep posting comments about another app that does this at zero monthly cost and it keeps getting deleted. huh?

[@elizabethfilips]

If you’re posting a link it automatically gets deleted, if you’re posting a name it should be fine

[@amritpandey5116]

Ego is the enemy is gold

[@mikhailtikhonov437]

Why would you want to listen to that? I think getting used to that speeded up audio is harder task than to get used to read at that pace (because we typically listen dramatically slower than we read)

[@elizabethfilips]

It really works so well for me so I thought I’d share it 😅 definitely not for everyone

[@mikhailtikhonov437]

@@elizabethfilips Im just interested why other methods failed and this one succeeded! thanks for sharing, you have one of the best channels I know!

[@elizabethfilips]

@@mikhailtikhonov437 Oh it's not that the others failed necessarily. The reason the audio helps honestly is that it can keep me glued on the page for a lot longer. Because it's a lot of friction to pause the app, I can read endlessly longer than with my own willpower, where things might distract me - if I look away in that case, I'm not reading anymore. But if I have my normal glance-aways with the audio there too, everything is still continuing. So I can go through SO much more in a sitting. I still can read a lot faster with just my eyes, but it's for a shorter amount of time. I do hope that makes sense 😅

[@temporarythoughts]

Shame they can't connect directly with Kindle, hoping that kindle can at least add this functionality instead of making you pay twice for text/audio separately

[@temporarythoughts]

@@elizabethfilips I would imagine it is a limitation in the Kindle API, but customer appeal often times invites a change so it could be worth it. Can't say I could manage that myself right now ☺️ once your channel and Speechify becomes larger, you could actually be the right place to get people in on this to create a significant demand.

[@mathieunorry]

Listening to audiobooks is absolutely NOT reading... It never was and never will be. Listening to audiobooks is merely consuming books, like listening to the radio or a podcast it is not the same as having to actively read a book, immersing yourself in it and focusing on the words, this is what makes reading unique. Listening is not reading.