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How is a lector different from audible/youtube/podcasts?

• ekianjo 10y ago
  How is talking to a person in front of you different from talking to someone via Skype/video-conference ? Proximity matters.
• mrob 10y ago
  1. More comfortable than wearing headphones or earphones all day. 2. The fact that it's a human speaking makes particularly annoying sounds (eg. most music) impossible. There is also strong social pressure to not be annoying, because the person to blame is right there in the room.
  • wldcordeiro 10y ago
    I wouldn't want it personally, I can't focus with people talking in the same room and this extends to the music I listen to when doing tasks that require focus (coding, drawing, reading, etc), I need it to be instrumental because otherwise it just throws me off. First discovered this trying to read in a break room at one of my first jobs and realized that I was processing the conversations around me even when I didn't want to (made only worse by the fact that both English and Spanish conversations were going on that I could understand.) So we can go ahead and get a lector, but I'll be tuning them out with headphones or working from home.