Paper ID: 2307.14544

Speed Reading Tool Powered by Artificial Intelligence for Students with ADHD, Dyslexia, or Short Attention Span

Megat Irfan Zackry Bin Ismail Ahmad Nazran bin Yusri Muhammad Hafizzul Bin Abdul Manap Muhammad Muizzuddin Bin Kamarozaman

This paper presents a novel approach to assist students with dyslexia, ADHD, and short attention span in digesting any text-based information more efficiently. The proposed solution utilizes the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) algorithm for complex text processing and summarization tasks. The tool leverages the T5 (Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer) model from Hugging Face, which treats every NLP task as a text generation task. The model is fine-tuned on specific tasks using a smaller dataset. The NLTK's Punkt Sentence Tokenizer is used to divide a text into a list of sentences. The application is served using Flask, a lightweight web server and framework. The tool also applies principles from Bionic Reading to enhance readability, which includes a bolding function and adjustments to line, word, and character spacing. The paper discusses the methodology, implementation, and results of the AI-based speed reading tool.

Submitted: Jul 26, 2023