evalerie: Valerie (Default)
evalerie ([personal profile] evalerie) wrote in [personal profile] the_rck 2019-08-13 01:03 am (UTC)

Big hugs!!

To pick one tiny detail: I've found that I like listening to podcasts at speeded-up speeds. That helps with the "spoken words are much slower than reading" problem. I started at 1.3 times normal speed, then went to 1.7, then 2.0, then 2.3. Nowadays I vary between 2.0 speed and 2.3 speed -- which seemed incoherently fast before I started increasing the speed, but now I'm used to it and 1.0 speed feels wildly slow. The exception is that if a person has an accent that I'm not good at understanding, or if I'm sleepy and distracted, then I might go to a slower speed than 2.0.

Anyway, I don't know if your gadget will play what you are listening to at faster speeds, and I don't know if you would be comfortable with listening that way, so I have no idea if this is helpful, but I figured I would mention it, just in case.

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