Comment on YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain

Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• TheMadCodger@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Others have said it, but definitely speed them up. I used to have the same complaint, but now I keep it at 1.25x and adjust from there.

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• jared@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Speed them up.

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• theherk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depending on the book, I usually read at 1.4x or up to 2x if I’ve already read it.

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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I run all of my audiobooks at 1.25x speed as a bare minimum. If a narrator is particularly slow, sometimes I’ll even bump it up as high as 2x. Any half-decent audiobook player will have built-in speed controls.

  For instance, if you’re running AudioBookShelf for self-hosting your audiobooks, Plappa (an unofficial but very well done listening app that syncs to your server) has it right there on the bottom:
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  On my particular color scheme it is purple, but you can change that in the settings. You can also set things like auto-pause (after {x} time, at the end of the chapter, or at the end of the next chapter), and bookmarks (which you can label) to come back to later.

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