Read aloud -- Daily Limit?

sperment

So, I have been listening to stuff on Zotero since I am prepping for prelims and just got notified that I reached a daily limit, however I had not seen anything saying that there was any sort of daily limit, especially for those of us who pay for zotero...

So is this normal? Because I need to be able to work on stuff for more than only a few hours a day..

dstillman

Yes, there's a hard cap of 8 hours per day of audio. That's intended as a guard against abandoned/runaway tabs and not something anyone would ever hit in real-world usage, and you're the first to mention hitting it. If you've been using a higher reading speed or jumping around a lot (which preloads more sentences), that could cause you to hit the cap in fewer actual hours.

For now, we've gone ahead and increased the cap to 12 hours of audio, but I'd be curious what your actual usage looks like.

sperment

Oh, that makes sense! I process audio much faster than visual reading, so when I listen to books, articles, etc., I usually have an audio reader set to between 2 and 3 times speed, depending on the speed of the audio, especially when I am simultaneously visually reading and annotating the text. I also did skip a little, but specifically because it kept reading the headers and footers of the documents I was working with.

In terms of time, I had only been using it for 3-4 hours (hard to determine exactly since I was using whatever time blocks I had and took breaks between listens) when I hit the limit.

dstillman

OK, let us know if you hit the limit again.