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If you're on an iPhone, Marco Arment's Overcast app has a brilliant Smart Speed function that effectively shortens silences in podcast conversations - combined
by saturdaysaint 11y ago
If you're on an iPhone, Marco Arment's Overcast app has a brilliant Smart Speed function that effectively shortens silences in podcast conversations - combined with an adjustment to the base speed, I find that it approximates speed-reading quite effectively.
To the broader point, there are a lot of instances where an engaged conversation produces fresher insights to my mind than a carefully constructed article. In the entertainment world, it's practically pioneered a new brand of confessional comedy. More to this audience's taste, hearing a founder pitch a product and answer some challenging questions on the a16z podcast is far more interesting to me than any profile I've ever read in Tech Crunch/WSJ/whatever.
- ruraljuror 11y agoAs an Android user (Pocket Casts now after years with Doggcatcher), I haven't used Overcast. But from listening to Marco's ATP podcast I understand Overcast can also help control the wide fluctuations in the volume of speech that is a problem in so many podcasts. I could really use that for my daily listening.
- saturdaysaint 11y agoThat's a great feature too. User controllable audio compression seems to be having a moment. One of my favorite features of the new Apple TV is that there's a universal setting to "reduce loud noises" - great for eliminating jarring booms in action movies and evening out the levels in an overly dynamic orchestra performance. I appreciate dynamics when I'm in a pristine listening setting, but in the real world, I want this feature in all of my gadgets.