Idk, I like natural flow just fine, it’s just that some people talk slowly compared to others (to e.g. James Duane or Cory Doctorow). I can’t imagine removing every pause from a talk — or rather, I’ve seen videos that are edited that way, and it’s quite jarring.
In fact, I’d prefer if audiobooks had more pauses in appropriate places, namely between chapters. I need a bit of time to file what I just heard under ‘a section ended’ without going into another one without a break.
‘Work’ in the sense that they better match my speed of comprehension and the rhythm of life to which I’m used. The same way as films from the eighties are often quite slow, e.g. watching Bill Murray take half a minute to walk across the room in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ was too much.
In the podcast app I’m using, I have speed setting for every subscription set to an optimal value, depending on the host/guests and the density of material.
Previously I’ve also tried higher speed like 1.3, but found that I can’t remember the content afterwards.
Pro tip: podcasts, audiobooks and such often work better at the speed of 1.15 or so.
This message is brought to you by that time I watched ‘The Matrix’ 2 and 3 before discovering the speed option in VLC. Which I still lament.
If it’s spoken word stuff, the feature to remove dead air really helps, too.
Idk, I like natural flow just fine, it’s just that some people talk slowly compared to others (to e.g. James Duane or Cory Doctorow). I can’t imagine removing every pause from a talk — or rather, I’ve seen videos that are edited that way, and it’s quite jarring.
In fact, I’d prefer if audiobooks had more pauses in appropriate places, namely between chapters. I need a bit of time to file what I just heard under ‘a section ended’ without going into another one without a break.
I’ve never had a podcast not work because of the speed I was listening to it at, what do you mean they work better?
‘Work’ in the sense that they better match my speed of comprehension and the rhythm of life to which I’m used. The same way as films from the eighties are often quite slow, e.g. watching Bill Murray take half a minute to walk across the room in ‘Where the Buffalo Roam’ was too much.
In the podcast app I’m using, I have speed setting for every subscription set to an optimal value, depending on the host/guests and the density of material.
Previously I’ve also tried higher speed like 1.3, but found that I can’t remember the content afterwards.
That’s a lot of words to say “I have the attention span of a toddler.”