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Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts by Swizec on Monday November 20, 2017 @05:13PM (#15743799)
That’s one of the things I do when editing my YouTube be videos. Cut out all pauses in speech.

I find that when I’m watching/listening something as long as there are no pauses, I don’t need the 2x speed. Particularly because I find speech often difficult to follow at anything more than 1.3x while at 1.3x the pauses are still way too long.

Smartspeed feature has been a godsend.

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Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts by fencepost on Monday November 20, 2017 @07:47PM (#15744668)
> That’s one of the things I do when editing my YouTube videos. Cut out all pauses in speech.

This is also a something that NPR has been doing on shows for years - perhaps not 'all' but they certainly do a lot of cleanup.

They also have some training material online, which may be of use to many people doing editing: http://training.npr.org/audio/the-ear-training-guide-for-aud...

The transcript of Pulling Back the Curtain may also be of interest, I think it may have been rebroadcast at some point as well so audio may get turn up.

Edit: http://www.wnyc.org/story/129697-pulling-back-the-curtain/

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