VLC has very short, short, medium, and long jumps. Go to the preferences to set your own hotkeys to whatever works (I have [ and ] for very short jumps, it's pe

VLC has very short, short, medium, and long jumps. Go to the preferences to set your own hotkeys to whatever works (I have [ and ] for very short jumps, it's perfect for the use case you describe, when you just want to hear a phrase again). (Note that apparently you need to restart VLC for the changes to take effect.)