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#623: HARRISON SCOTT KEY AND PODFASTING

mike and travis discuss the following topics…. the pga invasion…… the massage gun story….. bath tub desk….. after the break, we talk to author harrison scott key about writing, baths, bigfoots going to college, trains and more. check out his website where you can get more info on his book and follow him on social media here. here’s a link to buy it on amazon if you want to just buy it on…

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Podfast #32 sobre o Super Prime em São José dos Pinhais

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#623: HARRISON SCOTT KEY AND PODFASTING

WFOD http://dlvr.it/SrGmq2

[notanothersonicblog]

Our first (well second to be uploaded) episode of our Sonic Podcast, PodFAST is up! Here we discuss some Sonic news and talk about each of us got into the Sonic series. Check it out! (even if it’s a little rough around the edges).

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What happens when you steadily ramp up the speed at which you listen to podcasts

Human speech averages 150 words/minute, but human thoughts run more like 400 words per minute. Steve Rousseau decided to try "podfasting" (listening to podcasts at faster-than-normal speed) at progressively higher speeds to see whether he could consume more of the internet-mattress-subsidized high-quality audio bubble as he could before that bubble burst.

The upshot was 1.25x speed improved the pacing of many podcasts, while 1.5x was "initially jarring" but quickly "felt natural." But 2x was where things started to falter, requiring "an additional level of focus" at the outset of each program to adjust to the accent and cadence of the speakers, and the programs had "less emotional resonance" with Rousseau's thoughts primarily occupied by comprehension, not empathy.

At 3x, things just melted down, becoming distracting and difficult to comprehend.

Much of the work on high-speed audio has been done by testing visually impaired people and their uses of text-to-speech user-interfaces. I once listened in on a totally blind friend's experience of navigating through a web-page, skipping over UI elements much more quickly than 3x, and it was both daunting and incredible.

I confess that I've done a little of this, but primarily with video, because the visual side provides context cues that might get lost in the sped-up audio, and because videos are much more prone to having ponderous, lengthy sequences ("More pauses than a Pinter play!" -MST3K) that are best skipped over (looking at you, Stranger Things Season 3!).

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/28/pinter-be-damned.html

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Pre-Chat: Squid Game@1x, Lectures@2x, Win11@0x

Mike and Ting talk about Squid Game, watching videos at 2x speed and Windows 11.

NOTE: this is the pre-episode warm up chat for Two Point Hospital - Part 2.

Contact us: @lostlevelsclub or mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club

Show Notes:

Pre-Chat

Squid Game | Netflix Official Site

Battle Royale (2000) - IMDb

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout

The Shark v Turkey debate (Super Auto Pets) (YouTube)

@KnowS0mething - Here's a more comprehensive list of leaked Twitch payouts (I will keep updating this thread as more things come out).

The blog Ting is talking about is on his work intranet so I can’t link it, sorry 🤷‍♂️

How to speed listen (for students or podfasters)

Probabilistic Graphical Models

Windows 11 review: The start of a new era

Microsoft really doesn't want you installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware

Download this Episode

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I routinely listen to podcasts at 2x, which is as fast as my brain will go.

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All Christian Ministry Is Supernatural

9 Ways to Guard Your Personal Relationship with God

7 Things You Should Know About The Gospel Project

A Few Practical Pointers on Marriage

Your Words Will Outlive You

6 Questions for Assessing Bible-Study Material

Sticking with Community in a "Gotta Go" World

Refresh Your Soul with Humility

The ‘Parasite’ in Each of Us

A Student Ministry Manifesto

Personality Tests Don’t Excuse Your Sin

Why Christians Support Abortion (And How We Can Change That)

Know Why You Think What You Think

5 Myths about Studying the Bible

How Not to Envy Your Neighbor’s Competence

What Goes Into Making a Cover Beautiful?

You Have More Influence Than You Realize

Social media proving key to reaching young adults

Your Church Needs Boomers

Your Kids Need You to Talk to Them

Remembering the Persecuted Church

Culture

Kobe Bryant had a special kinship with Latino fans and culture

Fire Likely Destroys Museum of Chinese in America Collection

'I Am Straight Up In Tears Right Now.' Why Kobe Bryant's Death Hurts So Much

Podfasting: I Tried Listening to Podcasts at 3x and Broke My Brain

Revisiting ‘Waking Sleeping Beauty’, One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made About the Walt Disney Company

Why are Asian Americans still the butt of the joke in pop culture?

Ringer/Spotify

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Speed-Listening and the Trouble With ‘Podfasters’

Like you—like every delirious commuter—I savor podcasts. They’re a reprieve from my dead-eyed Twitter scroll. But unlike you, I don’t stress about missing an episode or four. In fact, I find comfort in the medium’s buffet of excess. Therefore I reserve special scorn for so-called podfasters: the tweakers who listen at 1.5X, 2X, even 3X …

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Mmm podfasters???? I have never listened to a podcast with a 2x speed... But now I am curious...

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Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds

Doree Shafrir, BuzzFeed, November 12, 2017

Rachel Kenny started listening to podcasts in 2015--and quickly fell behind. “As I started subscribing to more and more podcasts, they started stacking up, and I couldn’t keep up at normal speed,” the 26-year-old data scientist in Indianapolis told BuzzFeed News. “I also had to listen to the backlist of all the podcasts when I subscribed to them.” So Kenny began listening faster: first at 2x, then she worked her way up to 3x. She stopped only because “that’s just as fast as the Downcast app allows.” She estimates that she listens to five to seven hours of podcasts a day (which equals 15 to 21 hours at normal speed), “so maybe 20 to 40 episodes a day or 100 to 250 a week,” she said. She tracks her listening habits on a spreadsheet.

Kenny’s listening habits may be extreme, but she’s not alone. Meet the podfasters, a subset of podcast obsessives who listen to upward of 50 episodes a week, by, like Kenny, listening extremely fast. They’re an exclusive group: According to Marco Arment, creator of the Overcast podcast app, only around 1% of Overcast listeners use speeds of 2x or higher. (An app called Rightspeed, which costs $2.99, allows you to listen at up to 10x.)

Podcast consumers listen to an average of five podcasts per week, according to a recent study, which seems like a nice, manageable number: enough time to listen to a true crime podcast or two, a long comedy podcast, maybe a dash of politics. But for some people, that’s just not enough: Over 20% of podcast consumers listen to more than six per week, and podfasters--well, they listen to a lot more.

You could read these tendencies as a symptom of our sped-up culture, of a listening population too impatient or distracted to listen to anything for longer than, say, half an hour. But also, in the same way that peak TV and streaming has led to a culture of bingeing shows, we’re now in peak podcast--there are a lot of good shows, and not enough time to listen to them.

Sam Borley, a 28-year-old charity shop worker in Felixstowe, England, listens to his 56 weekly podcasts at different speeds, calibrating each one depending on the content and how fast or slow the hosts speak, though he said he listens to most at speeds between 2x and 3x. When he finds a new podcast, he makes a point of listening to the entire back catalog. “I have often, when finding out about a new podcast with a large back catalog, made myself a 100-hour-plus playlist to catch up, and then set my favorites to automatically jump the queue and play next so I can catch up on some without falling behind on others,” he said.

Laura McCavera, a second-year medical student in Vegas, said she started out listening to her medical school lectures at faster speeds before using the practice with podcasts as well. When she starts a new podcast, she begins at normal speed “to get a sense of the cadence, and then I increase it as necessary,” maxing out at 2.5x. She compared listening to a sped-up podcast to skimming a book, explaining that podcasts are easier than lectures to listen to casually, “so it’s less stressful to try to make sure you get every word.”

In fact, according to behavioral neuroscientist Stephen Porges, because recordings played at higher speeds are at a higher pitch, they are actually easier to hear. Low-frequency noises, like street noise, vacuum cleaners, or airplanes, get in the way of our understanding of people talking; by playing podcasts at a higher speed, the listener is creating a greater acoustic differentiation between the words and lower-frequency background noises. According to Porges, the muscles in the middle ear help to dampen low-frequency sound so we can hear speech more clearly--but if we don’t exercise those muscles (by, say, not having much human interaction), then they don’t work as well. Thus, listening to things at a higher frequency, and speed, could be helpful.

That makes sense to Josh Winn, a 38-year-old podfaster in San Diego who listens at 2.3x and has a total of 184 podcast feeds in his Overcast app. Though he can now hear perfectly, he was born mostly deaf and learned to speak with limited hearing--which meant, he said, that his speaking was “fairly unintelligible to most folks.” When he was in high school, his parents gave him an audio course from a personal development company as a form of informal speech therapy, in which the instructor said that speaking slowly is actually bad for listener comprehension. When he started listening to podcasts, he recalled this course. “Because I was able to slowly test faster and faster podcast speeds, I was able to gradually adjust until the speed became too rapid for me to comfortably listen and follow,” he said. “I knew it was too fast when I had to rewind a bit to catch what was said, or to understand the nuance of meanings.”

Neuroscientist Uri Hassan, whose Hassan Lab at Princeton studies brain responses to real-life events, has studied how the brain processes sped-up speech. He pointed out that even at normal speed, most people don’t catch every single word that’s being said. “If you make it one-third faster, it’s almost perfect--they don’t lose a lot,” he said. He also noted that the brain is able to easily adapt to different speaking speeds. “Your brain responses become slower when I speak slowly, and brain responses become faster when I speak faster.” But, he cautioned, comprehension starts to break down around 2x, and at 3x “it really breaks down.”

There’s one exception to this, though: blind people. “Because they are so used to only listening, they can speed it up faster than sighted people,” Hassan said. “They’re really trained.”

Rabbi Mordechai Lightstone, who does social media for Chabad and runs an organization with his wife, Chana, called Tech Tribe, had perhaps the most philosophical view of speed listening. (He listens to the 75 podcasts in his feed at 2.8x.) When asked how he decided to increase his speed, he responded, “There’s a concept that whenever you’re striving to do something new, whatever is hard now, that’s what you should try to do. Then when you become complacent and comfortable that’s a sign that it’s time to move on. I’m applying that concept on a spiritual level. As soon as I could really hear what’s going on, I would inch it up a little bit. Just keep on moving it, more and more.”

[notanothersonicblog]

A couple of you have asked what I thought of Sonic Forces and it’s new character creator (as always, I was right). As it just so happens, I had been working on a brand new podcast, PodFast (geddit?), with a few friends when the news hit yesterday. So we hastily threw this together overnight immediately recorded this session and shared our thoughts and reactions to the news.

So, if you want to hear my slightly halting (but very nice) cadence, some strange censorship, and have an hour to spare, why not give us a listen? We’re trying to go for a weekly podcast so any feedback is very much appreciated.

(Also, it’s kind of loud at the start)

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#1yrago Podfasters: people who listen to podcasts at speeds up to 300% of normal

I remember the first time a blind friend let me listen in on her screen-reader's text-to-speech narration, a high-speed chipmunk squeal that she had trained herself to decode; I was hugely impressed.

More than a decade later, I've found myself sometimes speeding up my favorite podcasts to 1.2 or 1.5 speed, especially when I have a big backlog to listen to, or when I discover a new podcast and want to get through its previous editions.

I'm not the only one, apparently -- the "podfaster" phenomenon is composed of people who've learned to listen to podcasts at high speeds (even double- or triple-speed). It has some potential benefits besides speed -- apparently higher tones are less likely to be masked by low-pitched street noises, HVAC or low-flying planes.

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/15/binge-listening.html

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Speed-Listening and the Trouble With 'Podfasters'

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