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> The pauses in speech seem to take FOREVER No kidding. Overcast has a "Smartspeed" feature that cuts out these pauses. The counter on my app says it's saved m

by fedups 9y ago

> The pauses in speech seem to take FOREVER No kidding. Overcast has a "Smartspeed" feature that cuts out these pauses. The counter on my app says it's saved me 195 hours to date.

matrixagent 9y ago
Could you tell me where to find that counter? I've looked everywhere… I for the life of mine can find it. I even tweeted the author. Google, looked at lots of reviews to find a clue… eventually I gave up and figured the counter must have been removed in an update before I got the app.
- init-as 9y ago
  Same here I can’t find the counter in my app although everyone else seems to have it.
- tnorthcutt 9y ago
  Settings (top left icon from main screen) --> scroll allll the way down. "Smart Speed has saved you an extre __ hours beyond speed adjustments alone."
- deleted 9y ago
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- infogulch 9y ago
  PocketCasts on Android does the same kind of silence removal. You can find it there in Settings > Stats. I recently wiped my phone but I'm pretty sure it was in the hundreds of hours saved before then.
- mitchellhislop 9y ago
  It's at the bottom of the settings menu - click the little Overcast logo in the top left and scroll down. (Just went through this exercise to find it last week)
  - 3pt14159 9y ago
    It should be noted that it's in very small / grey font at the very bottom. Also, holy shit, this has saved me 255 hours, not counting speedups. That's crazy.
suprfnk 9y ago
Whoa, that's a lot! Just curious, how many hours of podcasts is that? Do you have that information available? And with that experience, what are your favorite podcasts?
pchristensen 9y ago
I'm at 702 hours. Crazy - that's almost a month of silence I've avoided.
- cyberferret 9y ago
  "Silence is the perfectest herald of joy" - William Shakespeare I may get downvoted as just an old man yelling at clouds, but I wish that people would actually take more time to enjoy silence in its own right. My own kids seem to like doing everything with a pair of headphones on, or a video playing on their devices constantly, but some of my own moments of pure bliss have been sitting in my garden, sans technology, with a book or just petting my cat and stopping to breathe, listen to the sounds of nature and think about ideas.
  - Insanity 9y ago
    I will be a relatively young man joining you in yelling at the clouds. I am in my 20s now but I do agree with you. I enjoy just being with silence around me, especially when reading.
    - Ginguin 9y ago
      I mostly agree, except it can be almost impossible to find an interruption free environment. Many work in an open office (blech) and live in thin-walled apartments with music-pounding (or just floor stomping) neighbors. The only "silent" time I can get is in the car or late at night when everyone else is asleep. I wish I could find genuine silence. Half of my headphone time is done without anything actually playing. It's to drown out the incessant noise around me.
      - Insanity 9y ago
        Yeah, one of the reasons I value silence so much is because I don't get a lot of it during the day. I work in an open office, I use public transport, I go to a swimming pool. At evenings I usually spent some time with my wife. So by the time I have some silence, it is night. If, our neighbours are not being too loud of course. As a consequence, I really appreciate the quiet moments and nature walks etc.
ents 9y ago
571 hours for me
peteypao 9y ago
Is this a premium feature? I also can't find it.
- jonknee 9y ago
  No, but you have have to turn the smart speed feature on for some time before seeing a savings counter appear on the settings page.
- bouvin 9y ago
  I think not—I'm registered, and I can't find it either.
Fnoord 9y ago
> The counter on my app says it's saved me 195 hours to date. You think you saved 195 hours, but in reality you saved far less hours (I'm not saying you didn't save any hours). Silences serve to aid your brain from getting tired, allowing you to catch up and process the information, or to get in diffused mode of thinking. If silences were completely useless they wouldn't ever be used. You'd download an audiobook from the official vendor, and it wouldn't contain any silences.
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Swizec 9y ago
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.
- fencepost 9y ago
  > 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-audio-producers/ 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/ http://www.wnyc.org/story/129697-pulling-back-the-curtain/
xinyhn 9y ago
I use the skip silence in the android app Podcast Addict. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po... I certainly don't notice it easily but I have saved several hundred hours according to it.
- _Mark 9y ago
  Is this able to play Audio Books? Or is there an Android app that can skip silence for audio books?

by fedups 9y ago

> The pauses in speech seem to take FOREVER No kidding. Overcast has a "Smartspeed" feature that cuts out these pauses. The counter on my app says it's saved me 195 hours to date.

matrixagent 9y ago

Could you tell me where to find that counter? I've looked everywhere… I for the life of mine can find it. I even tweeted the author. Google, looked at lots of reviews to find a clue… eventually I gave up and figured the counter must have been removed in an update before I got the app.

init-as 9y ago
Same here I can’t find the counter in my app although everyone else seems to have it.
tnorthcutt 9y ago
Settings (top left icon from main screen) --> scroll allll the way down. "Smart Speed has saved you an extre __ hours beyond speed adjustments alone."
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infogulch 9y ago
PocketCasts on Android does the same kind of silence removal. You can find it there in Settings > Stats. I recently wiped my phone but I'm pretty sure it was in the hundreds of hours saved before then.
mitchellhislop 9y ago
It's at the bottom of the settings menu - click the little Overcast logo in the top left and scroll down. (Just went through this exercise to find it last week)
- 3pt14159 9y ago
  It should be noted that it's in very small / grey font at the very bottom. Also, holy shit, this has saved me 255 hours, not counting speedups. That's crazy.

suprfnk 9y ago

Whoa, that's a lot! Just curious, how many hours of podcasts is that? Do you have that information available? And with that experience, what are your favorite podcasts?

pchristensen 9y ago

I'm at 702 hours. Crazy - that's almost a month of silence I've avoided.

cyberferret 9y ago
"Silence is the perfectest herald of joy" - William Shakespeare I may get downvoted as just an old man yelling at clouds, but I wish that people would actually take more time to enjoy silence in its own right. My own kids seem to like doing everything with a pair of headphones on, or a video playing on their devices constantly, but some of my own moments of pure bliss have been sitting in my garden, sans technology, with a book or just petting my cat and stopping to breathe, listen to the sounds of nature and think about ideas.
- Insanity 9y ago
  I will be a relatively young man joining you in yelling at the clouds. I am in my 20s now but I do agree with you. I enjoy just being with silence around me, especially when reading.
  - Ginguin 9y ago
    I mostly agree, except it can be almost impossible to find an interruption free environment. Many work in an open office (blech) and live in thin-walled apartments with music-pounding (or just floor stomping) neighbors. The only "silent" time I can get is in the car or late at night when everyone else is asleep. I wish I could find genuine silence. Half of my headphone time is done without anything actually playing. It's to drown out the incessant noise around me.
    - Insanity 9y ago
      Yeah, one of the reasons I value silence so much is because I don't get a lot of it during the day. I work in an open office, I use public transport, I go to a swimming pool. At evenings I usually spent some time with my wife. So by the time I have some silence, it is night. If, our neighbours are not being too loud of course. As a consequence, I really appreciate the quiet moments and nature walks etc.

ents 9y ago

571 hours for me

peteypao 9y ago

Is this a premium feature? I also can't find it.

jonknee 9y ago
No, but you have have to turn the smart speed feature on for some time before seeing a savings counter appear on the settings page.
bouvin 9y ago
I think not—I'm registered, and I can't find it either.

Fnoord 9y ago

> The counter on my app says it's saved me 195 hours to date. You think you saved 195 hours, but in reality you saved far less hours (I'm not saying you didn't save any hours). Silences serve to aid your brain from getting tired, allowing you to catch up and process the information, or to get in diffused mode of thinking. If silences were completely useless they wouldn't ever be used. You'd download an audiobook from the official vendor, and it wouldn't contain any silences.

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Swizec 9y ago

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.

fencepost 9y ago
> 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-audio-producers/ 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/ http://www.wnyc.org/story/129697-pulling-back-the-curtain/

xinyhn 9y ago

I use the skip silence in the android app Podcast Addict. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.podcastaddict&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bambuna.po... I certainly don't notice it easily but I have saved several hundred hours according to it.

_Mark 9y ago
Is this able to play Audio Books? Or is there an Android app that can skip silence for audio books?