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Author: pyratebeard <root@pyratebeard.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:57:06 +0000
podcastracing
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-Listening to podcasts is not something I am really hooked on like a lot of people, but I do listen to a few series. There are some podcasts I try to listen to every episode and others I pick and choose. The latter are normally interview podcasts.
+Over the last year I have started listening to podcasts on a more regular basis. Most of the time I have about 20 to 30 minutes while I am doing a chore or some other task. For a long time I was listening to [Cory Doctorow's reading](https://craphound.com/hackercrackdown.xml) of [The Hacker Crackdown](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101) by Bruce Sterling, but felt like it was taking me a long time to get through the episodes 20 minutes at a time.
-Most of the time I will listen while doing chores, for example when I am doing the dishes in the evening. I found a lot of series have close to hour long episodes but I can finish cleaning the kitchen in 20 minutes.
+I decided to start speeding up the podcast so I could get through more. First I sped up 1.10x to see what it was like but very quickly moved to 1.25x. I got so accustomed to listening at 1.25x that when I put an episode on a different device I thought Cory was talking really slow.
-I started speeding up the podcast so I could get through more in the time I was busy. First I sped up 1.10x to see what it was like but very quickly moved to 1.25x. At the time I was listening to Cory Doctorow's [reading of The Hacker Crackdown](https://craphound.com/hackercrackdown.xml) by Bruce Sterling. I got so accustomed to listening at 1.25x that when I put an episode on a different device I thought Cory was talking really slow.
+As I grew use to the speed I started listening to all my podcasts at 1.25x. After a while I increased to 1.30x, then 1.40x. Now I can listen to almost all at 1.50x speed. This has really changed my podcast listening and I don't feel like I am falling behind so much.
-Since then I started listening to all my podcasts at 1.25x speed. After a while I increased to 1.30x, then 1.40x. Now I can listen to almost all at 1.50x speed. This means I can get through an hour long podcast in just two parts instead of three.
+Sometimes the speed has to be dropped down again if somebody is talking quite fast at normal speed but I am surprised at how quickly I have become use to it. Sometimes I even check to make sure the speed hasn't reset as I can't tell if it is going that fast.
-Sometimes the speed has to be dropped down again if somebody is talking quite fast at normal speed. I am surprised at how quickly I grew use to it though.
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-I have started trying this for videos as well. Some vlogs I subscribe to can be sped up to about 1.35x at the moment.
+I have started trying this for videos as well. Some vlogs I subscribe to can be sped up to about 1.35x at the moment. I think visual at speed is harder than audio but I have been able to watch a few movies at 1.25x.
Now I need to work on improving my speed reading...
