This would be more helpful for early readers.
Word by word highlighting might be too much! On more advanced books, the highlighting would go so fast, that it no longer helps the reader.
On level 1 decodable readers, I think it would work, but in that way Bloom should be giving you options to what kind of highlighting you want 
That might be a little too much to ask.
I would like to suggest âHighlighting at phrase levelâ.
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Actually I have been thinking about that. You are right. Except for Level 1 (word books) it WOULD be too much. But yes, phrase level highlighting would be better.
Iâm adding this request here, because I think itâs connected. (If it would be different, then please move it).
When I met with some literacy workers last week, they were interested in having the ability to control whether the highlighting is on or off.
E.g. people can have the audio playing without any highlighting, so they could just listen, and then they can also play it with the highlighting
I think this would be very useful for word lists or single words for self taught primers, but there would need to be a big pause between words that are on the same page, since they are not in sentences. Perhaps the phrasing could be triggered by a new paragraph rather than a period.
I like the idea of having a Bloom setting that allows the user to choose the highlighting by word, phrase, or sentence.
We are converting 250 epubs from 2 African languages, and they are all word for word highlighting. The conversion process does most of the work, but there are still hundreds of story pages with audio errors in the Bloom book, and we have to insert â|â symbols between every word in order to force Bloom to highlight each word. It is very tedious work, and it is easy to make a mistake and have to repeat it.
Is there any research supporting one kind of highlighting over another? Or, for that matter, is there any evidence that highlighting helps? I havenât been able to find any.