openaudible VS jumpcutter

Very cool!

My current setup is:

* Buy book on Audible

* Remove DRM with OpenAudible [0] (paid software)

* Add them to my AudioBooks Plex library

* Use Prologue [1] to listen to the books on my phone (it connects to Plex)

I like my podcast app (Overcast) a lot but it's not made for audiobooks whereas Prologue is. Also Prologue is a very well done app that has fully replaced the official Audible app for me. The only downside is no WhisperSync but I don't use that a ton.

[0] https://openaudible.org/

[1] https://prologue.audio/

Was it this https://openaudible.org/ ? I’m planning to give it a whirl once our mini arrives.

use OpenAudible app and it will convert it automatically. Works perfect for me.

use openaudible.org to rip and convert and then just drag them into Apple Books. easy as can be.

Check out OpenAudible, it's awesome.

Just use OpenAudible and you'll be good to go.

Then use OpenAudible, rip the audiobooks, and listen to them whenever you want!

Youtube videos with closed captions on are a nice way to ease into it. There's chrome extensions to increase the speed over the '2x' playback option youtube gives you. I personally don't enjoy podcasts at above 1.3x to 1.5x speed but when I am reading along with subtitles, I can increase the speed easily to 2.7x+. I don't think I did any specific practice.

After a certain amount of minutes, at 1.5x speed, the cadence of lectures at high speed start to feel normal and going back to 1.0x speed feels slow, as if it was 0.7x speed. Sort of like an audio illusion.

It reminds me of the feeling you get when you have been on a highway at a high speed for hours on a road trip. For whatever reason, my brain stops understanding how fast the "slow" speed of 20mph is is. So it feels extra slow even though relative to walking it's really fast.

Recently I came across Jump Cutter https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jump-cutter/lmppdp... which is an extension to speed up silences while keeping spoken audio at normal speed. You can customize it, but it's been an interesting experience, the audio is at an effective 1.9x speed while only being 1.4x during the spoken section.

Screen readers have a place, but the value in screen readers for the non-visually impaired is limited to the text-to-speech function.

I also know that some visually impaired people get used to certain voices to the point where they can make at words at a higher speed using a specific voice compared to others. Getting to 3x is much much easier than you imagine, it will take less than an hour if you increase the speed by 0.2x every 15ish minutes. You get used to it really quickly. The human brain is pretty fantastic in that regard.

I personally found that past 2.7x speed, even if I can understand the words, I can't comprehend new ideas and words fast enough for it to make sense and I end up having to pause. There definitely is a a point of diminishing returns, and for me it's around 2.6x, 2.7x. It depends on the lecturer cadence though.

If you want simple emulation of navigating using a screen reader, navigating having disabled your mouse is a good starting point. NVDA is the gold standard for screen readers.