Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts
by jldugger on Thursday February 21, 2019 @12:05PM
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> The podcast is very well done, but each one is about an hour long.
Many podcast apps have a pitch stable speedup function, that increases the playback speed. I'm currently at 2.1x, but I have a blind friend that listens to email via TTS at something like 4x. It's a skill that you can practice and ramp up over time.
> I'd much rather have it as a blog post where I can skim through to find the pieces that interest me.
Personally, podcasts are a supplement to my blog feeds, for the daily commute. There is no public transit to work that's feasible, and even if there was, I generally cannot read in car without getting motion sickness. So reading is pretty much off the table, and instead podcasts fill that slice of daily life.
> Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines.
This is mostly true, although nothing prevents transcripts from being made readable.
Many podcast apps have a pitch stable speedup function, that increases the playback speed. I'm currently at 2.1x, but I have a blind friend that listens to email via TTS at something like 4x. It's a skill that you can practice and ramp up over time.
> I'd much rather have it as a blog post where I can skim through to find the pieces that interest me.
Personally, podcasts are a supplement to my blog feeds, for the daily commute. There is no public transit to work that's feasible, and even if there was, I generally cannot read in car without getting motion sickness. So reading is pretty much off the table, and instead podcasts fill that slice of daily life.
> Podcasts are also completely inaccessible to search engines.
This is mostly true, although nothing prevents transcripts from being made readable.