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High speed listening in other contexts (self.Blind)
submitted by asr
I've seen videos where blind people listen to screen readers reading at incredible speeds. Does this high speed skill apply in other contexts, for example regular instructional videos, set to high speed?
For example if I set youtube to play videos at 2x speeds, usually I can not understand what the person is saying anymore. If you are practiced with high-speed screen readers, would you be able to? Or is it specific to the computerized screen-reading voice?
(My question is not about absorbing the content of what is being said, but rather simply about being able to understand the words.)
For example if I set youtube to play videos at 2x speeds, usually I can not understand what the person is saying anymore. If you are practiced with high-speed screen readers, would you be able to? Or is it specific to the computerized screen-reading voice?
(My question is not about absorbing the content of what is being said, but rather simply about being able to understand the words.)
silverhythm 3 points 4y ago
I usually listen to most of my sports/current events focused podcasts at 2X speed. I can’t go quite as fast speeding up human voices as I can with TTS engines, probably because of the natural variants of human speech that are absent in speech generated algorithmically, but any sort of spoken word content that doesn’t generally rely on comedic/dramatic timing I’ll usually speed up at least to an extent.
KillerLag 3 points 4y ago
With a bit of practice, you can learn to listen to something faster. When I was learning VoiceOver, we started at 150% with no issues, and some of us were able to get to 200% within a couple of hours.
Many people I know who can listen at the higher speeds can do it for other things as well, but they may not if it distorts certain noises (for example, instructional videos may have you listen for certain sounds, and the speed up sounds are different than the regular sounds). I've also noticed that for comedy, people don't always speed things up (I guess comedic timing really does matter some times).
Many people I know who can listen at the higher speeds can do it for other things as well, but they may not if it distorts certain noises (for example, instructional videos may have you listen for certain sounds, and the speed up sounds are different than the regular sounds). I've also noticed that for comedy, people don't always speed things up (I guess comedic timing really does matter some times).
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