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> - Practice speaking. Slow down. This is good advice for most people in general. Speaking slower gives more time to think about what you're going to say, whic
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
> - Practice speaking. Slow down.
This is good advice for most people in general. Speaking slower gives more time to think about what you're going to say, which means you say better things. It's shocking how slowly you can get away with speaking.
Incidentally, slowing down is also good advice for improving your handwriting.
- jonsen 3y agoAlso speaking slower gives the listener time to think about what you say.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYou can also add a second or two of pause between sentences to the same effect.
- gms7777 3y agoAnd with YouTube, anyone that wants to hear it faster can just speed up the video anyway.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoThis is really mostly possible with well enunciated speech, which is only really possible if you slow down a reasonable bit.
- yurishimo 3y agoI disagree. I think it has more to do with ear training and being familiar with the topics at hand. I listen to most spoken videos on 1.5x by default and can easily go to 2x for channels with hosts that speak slower. This is most noticeable for podcast-esque content that is more free-flowing and unscripted. In those scenarios, I might start out at 2x but slow it down if the podcast hosts/guests get into a passionate argument about a topic and start speaking faster and faster. Importantly, for topics that I don't understand (learning a new language - Dutch), I often don't speed up those videos because my brain is working a helluva lot harder to keep up. This changed last week however, when I was watching some very basic A1 content and found myself wanting to speed it up just a little bit. Did it help that the presenter was speaking slow and enunciating? Yes, but it's nowhere near the most important deciding factor (imo).
- marginalia_nu 3y agoTo be fair, a lot of content on a podcast-like format is like 5 minutes of ideas stretched out to 115 minutes because that's what podcasts typically boil down to. Doesn't matter if you miss out on some detail because there's just not much subtlety to anything shaped up like a podcast. You can walk away from it for 5 minutes and come back and often you'll not feel like you've lost any information. You'd probably miss out on quite a lot more if you played a Platonic dialogue back at 2x speed.
- wooque 3y agoGod no, I'm tired of having to set videos to 1.5x
- swyx 3y agoits no consolation but get the Video Speed Controller extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro...
- fortunateregard 3y agoOr drag this bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar. javascript: (() => { document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = prompt("Set video speed multiplier:", "3"); })();
- sublinear 3y agoI disagree. The creator should slow down when writing, but they should not waste the viewer's time when speaking. I don't want to hear someone's ramblings unless they're really someone special.