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>I don’t think I have suffered from the speed at which material covers a subject since I left school. [...] Thinking about it more often than not I wish I could
by jasode 5y ago
>I don’t think I have suffered from the speed at which material covers a subject since I left school. [...] Thinking about it more often than not I wish I could actually go slower rather than faster. I’m curious about how the experience of others commenters differ here
For many listeners, they suffer from speakers talking too slowly which causes them to tune out and become disengaged. This handicaps learning instead of enhances it.
A lot of people can read text at ~200 to 300 wpm. Since many speakers talk at ~100 wpm, accelerating videos to 2x or more just gets the audio in the same ~200 wpm range.
- TheFreim 5y ago> For many listeners, they suffer from speakers talking too slowly which causes them to tune out and become disengaged. This handicaps learning instead of enhances it. When I was in school last year I really loved online, pre-recorded, lectures for this reason. I could put speed on 1.5x or even 2x speed. If I missed something I'd tap my left arrow to go back a few seconds or write the time stamp down and come back later. Slow speaking videos drive me crazy.
- NikolaNovak 5y agoThis. There are semi-mandatory courses we need to take occasionally at work; and both the speed, and ratio of useful content, are dismal. E.g. Oracle University releases these 24 or 40hr courses which probably have, dunno, 6 hrs of content? Maybe? It is brutal to try to spend a week going through something so atrociously slow and informationally sparse. Ability to speed it up (sometimes 1.25, 1.5 or 2.0 times) brings it into actually manageable.