Text 2.0

Imagine this: what if your book really knew where you are gazing at?

http://text20.net

Text 2.0 is our vision of how reading can evolve on digital devices. Sounds, images and other types of ambient events can be triggered appropriately according to the currently read position. Text 2.0 is interactive, but without the need of explicit control. By a mere reading detection the system recognizes the current point of attention and enables to create an atmosphere full of sentiments, for example by using sounds of wind and water, emotional music or background themes.

But it can do so much more. It augments your reading with the proper information at the right time. Automatically displayed translations, bookmarks, Wikipedia summaries or speech in- and output are examples of already implemented functionality.

We think that Text 2.0 has the potential to become the future of reading.

For further information contact
ralf.biedert@dfki.de

Part of the work has been funded by the Stiftung Rheinland-Pfalz für Innovation. Thank you very much. Visit their website if you like:

http://stiftung-innovation.rlp.de/

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[alfredasdeese54555]

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[NiGHTSChao689]

If this hit the market, I wonder how long it would take before popup advertisements or product tag-lines would be forced in there

[freya1924]

Not bad except for the skimming text: I'm a speed reader it would always think I'm skimming. :P

[bertmg]

How cool is this. My biggest concern is the amount of system memory and file size used up for such technology.

[focarman89]

This would have made My public educational experience a much more productive one.

[ralfbiedert]

The song is called "Text in Motion". You can get it from the project's web site (media.text20.net) in the "Sounds & Music" section. It is licensed as CC/BY, so you may even use it for your own works ;-)

[vvvano]

what a song?

[polletfa]

@VampireWestly I could very well imagine such a system for any kind of didactic document (why only foreign langages?) using hypertext links (online encyclopedias or newspaper for example). There are already plenty of websites where you can get a popup with detailed information, preview, etc (and unfortunatly, advertising as well), by hovering the mouse over a word. That's not that different. So they are *already* plenty of practical applications for such a system.

[polletfa]

@francisco8104 Finally, if you see no use for this, it may be because you lack imagination... The example here is untertainment but they are other fields where it could make sense. This semester I'll be working on a project whose goal is to test how it could be used for maintenance instructions. The obvious benefit would be that the operator could be given the information he needs without having to click his way through the instructions, leaving his hands free for the maintenance work.