How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds

I've read about a few listener comprehension studies, and it's been found that people generally comprehend higher pitched, slightly faster than average, voices better, and female voices are better than male for comprehension and retention.

I don't know how that applies to this particular trick, but this is something I've had a vague wish for, for years. Though I just wanted a button on YouTube for, "Talking too slow!" that would speed them up some.

How come no pitch correction in sample videos ? I assume AviSynth is capable of doing that.

Reclock is a much better option IMO http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ReClock_Directshow_Filter

AviSynth isn't the best audio processor. It's much better with the visual side of frame rate conversion. Its other strong points are: dealing with interlacing correctly, resizing, pseudo HDR, and improving how the clip looks (denoise, deblock, dehalo, sharpen, ect...). It's something I play around/code for with in my spare time. Check it out, you might like it :) http://avisynth.org/

I do this pretty often when listening to books on tape, I thin it's a natural to do this when listening to long-form video.

I believe I read once that advertisers have software that reduces the length of the pauses between words/sounds in a video to speed it up, without it seeming as sped up.

First time I read that, it sounded like the title of another useless, obvious patent.

"A method for faster performance through accelerated playback"

Man, I thought this was going to be a parody of speed reading.

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