What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x?

Re:What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? by DowsingSpoon on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:26PM (#44896121)

It’s highly dependent on what I’m viewing, of course. Some people just… talk… so… slooowly. If the content is interesting then they get 1.5x. Some people talk a mile a minute with dense information and they get 1x. For myself, 2x is usually too fast to be enjoyable.

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Re:What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? by Scoundreller on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:40PM (#44896519)

This is the problem: the settings should let you specify an absolute rate like average words or phonemes per minute.

Maybe some coefficient of word/thought complexity.

Not a relative multiple of the base rate. Garbage in, garbage out and all.

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Re:What's your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x? by mdaniel on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:44PM (#44896230)

My experience has been that it's not just the cadence of the speaker, it can be their intonation and pitch that determines whether I can speed it up. And some deep voiced person from Essex who is recording in their bathroom ... not a prayer, because I can't find the word boundaries from the background noise

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