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I usually listen at 1.5x passively. But what you said made me curious. I listened to this podcast at 3x. I was able to understand all the words, but my concept
by wenc 1y ago
I usually listen at 1.5x passively.
But what you said made me curious. I listened to this podcast at 3x. I was able to understand all the words, but my conceptual understanding decreased. I also have to listen actively -- not passively.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFkwdm0PP0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SFkwdm0PP0
At 4x, I could only understand the shape of the sentences but could no longer make out the words. But I turned on the captions and found I could keep up. Turns out reading at 4x works, listening at 4x doesn't.
English is also spoken with different prosodies and cadences. For instance, I can understand Singaporean English perfectly, but it's less amenable to being sped up. I tried listening to this lecture in Singaporean English in 3x and found that I could barely understand it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1dnUYzRWU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1dnUYzRWU
- manusachi 1y agoBlind people often go upto 600 words per minute and more with text-to-speech, which is, I think, would be an equivalent to 5x and more.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1y agoIn fairness, they cannibalize their visual cortex to do that:)
- sooheon 1y agoThere's the cue for my biennial reread of Peter Watts' Blindsight.
- bryanrasmussen 1y agoI'm pretty sure you can train yourself to do the same, but the effort probably doesn't seem worth it for most people.
- worthless-trash 1y agoBut its robotic and predictable, human speech is not.
- Bluestein 1y ago1.7x here as a matter of course.- PS. I wonder if, even peripheralally, having one of 'em newfangled AI glasses teleprompting you at the same time, could get one up to 2.0x or higher.-
- throw0101d 1y ago> I usually listen at 1.5x passively. Eminem's song "Rap God" has a segment where he goes at about 6 words per second (@4m23s): * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
- digitalsushi 1y agoi can catch a single fastball. sometimes. i cant catch 1 per second
- BizarroLand 1y agoRacine sings the english translation of the Disappearance of Hatsune Miku much faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohDycgc-H8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tohDycgc-H8 However, there is a difference between a rehearsed and practiced performance and communication that makes these things more a feat of acrobatics.
- throw0101d 1y agoFor a time in the 1980s John Moschitta was well-known for making fast-talking commercials: * FedEx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK5ZjtpO-M * Micro Machines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzd11GMBONg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzd11GMBONg * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moschitta_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moschitta_Jr.