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A font that reads what you wrote

https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/semfont.html
7•RohanAdwankar•2d ago

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RohanAdwankar•2d ago
Not using an LLM, but rather just a plain set of heuristics which can run formatting quickly enough to render while the text is being streamed or edited. The aim is to try to see if I can make text more readable as it's being streamed in.
frereubu•46m ago
Not working in Firefox. I get this error:

  Uncaught TypeError: The specifier “semfont/analyze” was a bare specifier, but was not remapped to anything. Relative module specifiers must start with “./”, “../” or “/”.
Works in Chrome though.
jstanley•8m ago
Here was me thinking it just didn't do anything at all.
wccrawford•38m ago
This is a really neat idea. I'm not sure it's actually useful, but it's definitely neat.

And it made me think of the new kid in town: Jev. I wonder if Jev can do this well and quickly? Not that I'm willing to pay the tokens even to find out, but it's another neat thought.

codingdave•28m ago
Nifty idea, but the premise seems flawed. This won't help people read, it will help people avoid reading by focusing on which words to skim. It also seems like it would have a problem detecting sarcasm.
ayaniv•17m ago
very very cool
busssard•5m ago
cute. sadly only in english so far.

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A font that reads what you wrote

https://rohanadwankar.github.io/posts/semfont.html
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