Rob of isagen and I were talking about different types of visualization and sonification of texts. One idea is to have a sonification of a text where keywords are whispered from different directions. A text would be processed into a short sonoric summary. Rob has build scrollers that show the news scrolling by in a window as a way of allowing the user to keep an eye on a (changing) text. I came across this Speed Reader that does something like this here.
What if one ran a process that summarized a text and the summary (a list of frequency sorted words) was then played back through such a reader?
Doesn’t work for me in Mozilla 1.3 for OS X either — but it’s a great idea!