I have a new feature that I am wildly excited about it and must share! (You can tell from the video that I have been coding hardcore over the holiday weekend. Please excuse.) OK, let's get to the goods! Do many of you use the built-in Mac OS speak-selection tool? For accessibility, clearly, it is necessary. But also for educational purposes, I cannot say enough about the benefits of multi-modal educational intake and comprehension. I believe that reading and hearing text at the same time is second only to writing out text as a way to help the content really connect with the consciousness. And the way my family and I use Learn with Lumi lesson content is generally taking turns reading aloud, pausing to discuss, and when our little voices get tired, we use the Mac OS speak-selection tool. But the system itself is a bit grouchy, and honestly far from perfect. If you have ever tried to make it slightly faster, you quickly find out that the next increment up is so fast that the voices are unintelligible. So yesterday, I wondered: "Could it be that Mac let's you control that from the browser itself?!?!" At first I thought that would be too good to be true! But it isn't! They do! So I created this special little play/listen controller that pops up if Learn with Lumi detects that you are on Mac OS and it selects the entire lesson content for you and reads it aloud to you. Along with our auto-scroll feature, it is such a great tool for helping the material really get into our brains! I will be working out how I can implement something similar on windows next. But I was so excited about this step forward that I had to share. The educational benefit is so significant!

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View on Youtube: New Learn with Lumi educational feature! Listen while you read along!