Listening to Audiobooks on 1.5X speed - game changer!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listen to audiobooks on regular speed.
I live in the south where everyone talks slow anyway, so to me that is normal talking speed.
Also, my main objective while listening to audiobooks is that I have boring chores to do, like making salads or trimming hedges. I think if I listened to audiobooks on super fast speed I might slice my fingers off.

Same, I do fast sometimes but it takes more focus and feels more draining.

Yeah, I have to go relatively slow or I just won't "follow"... Which is why I think it funny whenever posters disparage audiobooks as "not reading": I have to pay so much more attention while listening and of course can't skim. I am 5x faster and probably less attentive when I read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do that for everything. YouTube videos, pre-recorded work seminars, etc…

I don't know what happened but recently most videos I watch on youtube won't allow you to adjust the speed. I watch a lot of instructional videos on yt and am so sick of now watching someone take 30 minutes to convey something that could easily be done in 10.

[Anonymous]

I generally do 1.1. I just moved up to 1.15 because a book I’m listening to is due soon. But even at 1.2 the voices sound annoying to me.

I was very surprised when I first started listening to audiobooks that the content stays with me much better than when I read print books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do that for everything. YouTube videos, pre-recorded work seminars, etc…

I don't know what happened but recently most videos I watch on youtube won't allow you to adjust the speed. I watch a lot of instructional videos on yt and am so sick of now watching someone take 30 minutes to convey something that could easily be done in 10.

every single YT video allows you to change speed - that's a specific issue to you/your device.

[Anonymous]

Hahah this reminds me of a joke, that soon we'll get an option to just inject it directly into our veins!

[Anonymous]

I usually speed them up. However the other day I was listening to an audiobook being read by the author who spoke so quickly it was stressful. I turned her down to 80%.

[Anonymous]

1.75 for the first chapter to get names/relationships down.

2.0-2.25 from there.

1.0 sounds like is isn't even normal speaking. It sounds artificially slow. I think 1.5 sounds like normal speaking speed for most narrators.

[Anonymous]

When I used to listen to podcasts, I used the Overcast app that let you adjust speed and somehow also make the gaps between words shorter.