Ep8: Cliff Weitzman | Founder and CEO of Speechify
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How I Learned to Read
In first grade, I couldn't figure out how to read. And a second grade,I couldn't figure it out either. So my dad actually took pity on me and started recording himself like a set tape. He would walk around the house later listening to Harry Potter in Hebrew. But from that experience, he fell in love with audio books. The average reading speed in the United States is 200 words per minute. That's not adequate for people who are visual learners.
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