Voyant is a tool that, in my personal opinion, very useful for people who are not used to read long novels. (I make this conclusion based on my case) By using the text analysis tool I can know immediately who are in the story, and I can also get a glimpse, by looking at the sentences and where they appear in the story, of what the personalities of these characters without flipping pages back and forth for a long time. It is easier for me to understand the story if I know the characters first (I always appreciate those publishers that has brief intro of characters in the beginning of the book)
By examining the word trends, I also found out that some the frequency of different characters are overlapped, which also helps me to know the relationship of characters. While I click on the actual book section, Voyant will show me the conversation between each character so that I can understand how these characters relate to each other and know them by the conversation.
One thing I really like this tool is that on the word trend section, you can hide the search by clicking it. I think it is very informative because you can compare the curve of different words.
When it comes to read in English, it always takes me so long because I am such a slow reader. Usually I will have to take some times understanding , look up the vocabularies and sentences next, then read all over again so that I can understand the meaning that underneath the surface. I think text analysis tool can save slow readers a lot of time to get into the story faster since it gives them a small review of the book to make their life easier. It does not really matter what kind of words that are being searched, and that is also one of the thing that I like about text analysis tool. Users can type in anything that they are interested in to find out the hints that they want to know about the book. I think this is exactly the purpose of reading: people view and understand the stories differently, and different points of views yield various opinions which can be fully discussed. The only question that I have after using this tool is, what if a person already know and read the whole book, is this tool going to help him/her to find out something else instead of just screwing around? Is the text analysis tool not helpful enough for someone who already knows the story and probably will not have any profound purpose to them?
