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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by dnautics on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:29PM (#14035181)
It is the case that you can teach yourself to understand faster and faster speech. The blind often have human interface devices which speak at absurdly high vocal acceleration.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by JoshTriplett on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:12PM (#14035649)
This also depends heavily on information density. I can listen to some types of content at 2x without issue; other content I can't accelerate more than 10-20%.
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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by MaulingMonkey on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @07:00PM (#14038067)
Some content I have to scrub and rewatch even at 1x speed.

Some content I can watch at 4x.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? by dnautics on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @06:34AM (#14041072)
Blind people regularly teach themselves to listen at 4-5x speed.
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