My 2 Top Secret Accelerated Learning Tools – and Your information technology career
September 15, 2009 
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As I used this recording (CDs or MP3 immediate download) I started learning
twice or 3 times faster any new stuff that comes along. I can focus
on the most important items I should learn very quickly, and I can remember
much more – this has actually finally solved my “Can’t remember names” problem.
Let me tell you one of the secrets on remembering names, so you have
an immediate take out: As someone tells you their name, repeat the name
in your mind for at least 6-7 times. As you do that, look at their face
and try to attach to their name, something unique about them
(they always smile, have blue eyes, short haircut, (no hairs in my case 
)
You will be amazed how quickly you get many more friends as you
finally remember their names!
2. The excellent Text To Audio Program – TextAloud –
(This is the download link). It saves tons of time
converting too-long-mails to Audio as well as eBooks, memos, web pages.
That way I can listen to it while doing something else, instead of
getting my eyes stuck to the screen, trying furiously to skim mountains of text.
That’s all for today…let me know your best time savers for boosting our
Information Technology Career.
Text to audio: I tried TextAloud and some other text-to-audio demos on the web. I’m sorry to say that this technology is not good enough yet. If the demo is suppose to make me buy the software at least put some decent voices in it. I couldn’t understand what was read and acronyms were read as words. Not for me yet.
Hey Galia,
Thank you for your input!
I agree that the text to speech technology that is currently
available is not “human” enough. And some people cannot enjoy even the higher quality voices. But sometimes it is such
a big time saver that you would use it in spite of the lacks.
As to the fact that words such as “IT” which could mean
“Information Technology” as well as simply “It” as in “It is..” – this is true. There are two ways I thought of
to deal with this con:
1. Accept the fact it is not perfect…and my experience
is that most of the time it works well.
2. Use the option in TextAloud that allows you to define
the voice it would play for specific terms. This could
actually be a base for a new service…
Anyway, I’ll be letting you know of any new developments
in this area and do recommend you take a look at the
Accelerated Learning Techniques Audio.
P.S.
We have an audio version for each of the posts here…
and I have to say they sound very good. You can find the
Audio version for each post on this blog, right after the
headline where it says “Listen Now”. I’d love to hear
your thoughts about its quality…and you can get it
automatically via iTunes.
Yours,
Jack.