I will try and train my ears to listen at 3.5x speed AND ABOVE for next time but 3x was my max for this round :[] also wanted to add 3x speed was actually ok when i was doing my makeup so maybe it also depends on length of exposure time and also how tired i am haha. if a lecturer is talking tho its 3x speed for me.
1,5 is my comfort speed. It's fast enough so my ADD brain doesn't get so easily distracted, but not too fast so I can understand everything (especially because English isn't my mother language).
I start around 1.5 and work up to where its comfortable where i can understand the story usually around 1.9 - 2.5. For me it depends on a couple things including how fast the narrator speaks, word choice (usually fantasy has lots of made up city names etc) and if im doing something like if i'm cleaning i have to slow it down.
Lol I’m a solid 1x speed gal. I enjoy having stories told to me, so I want to enjoy the experience. Anything faster than normal talking speed isn’t enjoyable and I find hard to focus on.
@@chillhopworld I have the chrome extension "Video Speed Controller" which works on videos on just about any platform (TikTok, Imgur, etc) and even on gifs. Press "s" to slow by 0.1x, "d" to speed up by the same increment. Also have "Enhancer for UA-cam" which has a lot of other features too, but I have it set to automatically start all videos at 2x speed and I adjust if needed from there.
In all seriousness I’ve read that to increase understanding when you’re listening at a high speed, you can read the book at the same time as listening! Apparently it rly helps keep u focused
I usually listen to audiobooks at about 1.5x speed, but it depends on the reader. I just find 1x speed to be too slow, but I still want to be able to enjoy and understand the book.
Ok, so compared to a lot of people here it looks like I read audiobooks SUPER slow ... I generally prefer a 1.15.-1.2 speed, will really never go above 1.3 (and if I do it's because I don't like the reader anyway, so I'll often just put the audiobook down), and if I really like the narrator I won't speed it up at all! To me an audiobook is a different experience from reading text. I really enjoy different narrators' takes on stories; many are incredibly talented. I also don't read audiobooks for accessibility reasons (though somewhat for convenience, like if I'm driving), so if I choose the audiobook, it's because I want to read that particular story on audio, and I usually want to pay close attention to the narrator's style. Also, like Divya, I often have trouble with certain accents on audio, mostly ones I'm not as familiar with.
I'm the same way! 1.2-1.3x is my usual listening speed, and even 1.3 i find I end up zoning our or missing words. I can do 1.5 but I think I just don't like the pacing. I feel like i miss things if i go faster and b/c I write too, I want to be able to absorb the writing style so I can learn from it (whether its good or bad lol). I think doing 1.25ish baseline speed I've come to find regular 1x speed too slow now but i do want to enjoy the performance & i think 1.2x you get both. I could probably work my way up if I wanted but 3x speed is wild to me! tbh it even surprises me when ppl admit they watch yt 2x speed all the time, unless its somthing i really wanna Get Through I usally just vibe at 1-1.25x. Tbh if I'd been listening to audiobooks in school tho I feel like I abosolutely would've trained myself to listen at 2x or higher tho for more practical reasons
so is this a safe space to say that i dont get the booktubers who listen to audiobooks on 2.5x speed??? i tried to work my way to that speed but i found myself giving up and it sounds gibberish. listening to 1x with good voice actors though, remains my fav speed to be at! (tho maybe i am just not into audiobooks in general personally bc i need to see words to remember/process it) ngl tho i borrow children's audio book and have it read it to me as i go sleep cos we gotta heal our inner child somehow
ngl love i was listening to this on 2x speed (i do it for all yt videos i cannot concentrate otherwise + efficient relaxation during exam season ;;) and i think the love hypothesis hits best when it is a fuzz of 4-6x speed as i heard it here, just some calming white noise and no uncomfy wattpad words perceived
UA-cam does a really good job keeping the audio legible even at 6x :) Cntrl+Shift+J document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = x set x to the play value you want :)
2x speed is the sweet spot for my short attention span. any more and it gives me a headache 😩 but a semester’s worth of recorded lectures the night before the exam? 4x speed 😭
I slowly ramp up my audiobook speed until it is the fastest the app offers. When I listen to 2x speed for too long I start thinking that it’s too slow.
The speed I listen to depends on the narrator. If they’re easy to understand and they do a good job differentiating the characters, then I’ll listen at 1.75-2x speed. If they’re a little difficult to understand then I listen at 1.25-1.5x. When I first started listening to audiobooks I’d listen at 1x speed which is unimaginable to me right now 😂 I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on the story if it’s being told to me that slowly. If I want to skim or reread just for the feels I’ll listen at 2.5x. I tried listening at 3x once and never again because even rereading feels impossible at that speed (unless the narrator speaks really slowly I guess). It sucks when there are multiple narrators and one is easier to understand than the other cause then I have to keep adjusting the speed. Also in general, I prefer American accents because they’re easier for me to get into. And I prefer female narrators because they’re usually better at ‘male’ voices than male narrators are at ‘female’ voices.
May I just say that you look particularly gorgeous today! I find audiobooks hard to listen to because it's just too difficult for me to immerse in whatever's going on, I just zooooone out
Personally most speeds above 2 are too fast for me unless I really don't like the book and want it to be over. 1.7-1.9 is generally my sweet spot but I range from 1.4 to 2.2
I listened to audiobooks on 2x speed when i first started and now it's 2.5x to 3x depending on the narrator and what part on the plot I'm on. I'd also advise eyeballing the EPUB/book while listening to the audiobook at 2x plus speed. It really helps.
I saw an author whine about how listening to books faster than normal speed is bad because you lose the inflection and intent of the narrator and author and its a slap in the face of the author and narrator and man, I'm not buying anymore of their books. You can train your brain to listen for inflection. Also audiobooks are typically read slightly slower than average speaking speed to help those with auditory difficulties so it's grating for me to listen that slowly.
plss I listen to everything on 3x speed! it’s a little faster than my base reading ability and I find it really helps me focus-any slower and I get distracted. I even watch UA-cam videos (including this one) on 2x so listening to you play clips was quite funny :) I think listening to books that fast as a means of “gaming the system” is pretty toxic, but for people like me it honestly makes consuming books way more enjoyable. except I get frustrated with normal people talking sometimes!!
You get accustomed to the speed fairly quickly. I listen to audiobooks in Spanish at 2.5, but I'll admit that in English I can barely manage anything over 1.5, and only when I'm not surrounded by noise. (side note: I also watch YT videos at 1.5, and I was too lazy too slow this one down for like the first half. 2.5 speed at 1.5 is wild XD)
didn't know i've been sitting in the top percent omg. i'm currently listening to the maidens and like...it's all good. if it's a book i'll want to take my time with, like when i listened to circe, i did times 2. but a fluffy romance or thriller that i listen to while doing the laundry...yeah 3x speed :))) the irony, my reading speed is sooooooo slow lol
I don't mind you saying "..." about American accents--your type of British accent is one of the few I can really handle, next to like David Attenborough's...idk
I watched this, and later started to test it for myself. Long story short, I can only listen to audiobooks on 2.7-3x speed now, everything else feels wrong
I find with audiobooks ot takes time to train your brain to get to higher speeds and it doesn't work for everyone! Also the narrator matters. Some have accents or inflections or cadences or speeds that leans themselves to slower speeds or higher speeds. I have a narrator that I've listened to over 100 hours of their narration and I can go very high with her as I know her inflections well. Also genre matters and your personality. I used to need to understand everything but some books I just don't need all the details and don't care if I miss words on occasion. Most of the time I can figure out what the word was by context.
I have audio processing issues and the way you described listening to 3.5 and understanding that there were words there but not actually being able to pick them out and figure out the sentence being made is a struggle I have with everyday talking and especially listneing to music (I can listen to a long literally hundreds of times and still not know what most of the yrics are). Even 1.5 speed is enought to make me vomit so I never really up the speed.
I'm the same with needing the narrator to have a British or Irish accent, the same with relaxation videos.. great video, best believe I laughed at every single joke and dramatic editing
I don't listen to audiobooks purely because I can't for the life of me multitask and if I'm only listening I will fall asleep 🤣 plus the voice sometimes doesn't match the characters in my opinion
This is the sleepiest Divya video yet. This girl needs REST. What is interfering with bestie's recuperation?? Is she being disturbed? Is she looking at phone before bed? My girl needs a sensory deprivation chamber. Give this cutie a break rn? It's affected ME, an everyone else with a HEART.
I work my way from 1.5x to 2.0x , it depends a lot on the narrator, and since english is not my first language sometimes i have to leave it on 1.5 because of the accent.
I usually listen to audio books on 1x speed because even then my brain cannot comprehend what they are saying, usually also watch splatoon gameplay as I listen to audio books to actually focus on the plot
I watch/listen to everything t 1,5-2 times speed, depending on the accent of the person speaking, since english isn't my first language and it can be tricky sometimes :D
When I first started listening to audiobooks, I started with 1.75x speed (I already watched YT videos at 1.75x). Now I really can't go below 2.3x. But for rereads I can easily go for 3.0x and sometimes even 3.5x, but rereads only.
I listen to audiobooks at 3x speed and it’s so annoying Overdrive stops at 2x😭 I can hardly keep up if I listen without headphones though so maybe try that? It helps me focus on what they’re saying. I really love the efficiency of listening on 3x and I can’t deal with how slow 2x and under sound
I have had boring books i want to finish narrated extra slow that i can speed up to 2.5 no problem. I usually pay attention best at 1.5-1.75. When the narrator has an accent I’m not familiar With i have to show it way down though
2x is good for me if I'm listening out loud. But if I'm listening with headphones in, I can do 3x speed. It's strange, I think because I've isolated the book and nothing's distracting me. However, if I'm following the book with my eyes I can do 3.5x depending on the general speed of the narration
It really depends on the narrator, some are much faster than others, but I'm alright with 1.75x to 2x listening speed which way below my reading speed and I wonder if that's because I'm more of a visual learner rather than audio.
I mean I’ve listen to books at 1x at 2x and 3x. It really depends on the narration and on what I’m doing. Like if I’m hating the book and I want to finish it quickly I listen to it 3x and if I love it too
I can listen to audiobooks on 3 to 3.5x depending upon the narrator, I have been listening to audiobooks for years now and started with 1.5x and slowly grew from there. After your first few times, listening to the book at 3x gets easy
I will try and train my ears to listen at 3.5x speed AND ABOVE for next time but 3x was my max for this round :[] also wanted to add 3x speed was actually ok when i was doing my makeup so maybe it also depends on length of exposure time and also how tired i am haha. if a lecturer is talking tho its 3x speed for me.
1,5 is my comfort speed. It's fast enough so my ADD brain doesn't get so easily distracted, but not too fast so I can understand everything (especially because English isn't my mother language).
I like 1.5 to start offf it's a nice calming pace
The wholesome comedy of you just falling asleep with a rapidly-speaking audiobook narrator 😭😭😭
Watched this on 2x speed for immersion.
try 4x speed
I watch everything on 2x speed unless I’m trying to really learn something and I had to put this to normal and it was really hard for me 😅
same but im trying to stop. I used to HAVE to but now only on like 1 hour boring videos@@losermillie
I start around 1.5 and work up to where its comfortable where i can understand the story usually around 1.9 - 2.5. For me it depends on a couple things including how fast the narrator speaks, word choice (usually fantasy has lots of made up city names etc) and if im doing something like if i'm cleaning i have to slow it down.
"It's two times the speed aka twice as fast" divya just has a way with words 🥰
The only book I've ever listened to on 3.5x speed was Fifty Shades of Grey. I didn't mind missing half of what was going on.
Lol I’m a solid 1x speed gal. I enjoy having stories told to me, so I want to enjoy the experience. Anything faster than normal talking speed isn’t enjoyable and I find hard to focus on.
no way 😭😭😭 1.5 speed is comfortable for me because if i go any faster and zone out for even 30 seconds, i miss out on a ton of information LOL
I cannot pay attention to audiobooks at
bro how did you unlock the secrets to life
@@itsdivyag ADHD 😂
@@MeMyshelfAndI lol I have adhd too but I actually need it slow so that when my brain does start to wander I don’t miss too much 😅
What tool/extension do you use in order to listen to UA-cam at 3 and above?
@@chillhopworld I have the chrome extension "Video Speed Controller" which works on videos on just about any platform (TikTok, Imgur, etc) and even on gifs. Press "s" to slow by 0.1x, "d" to speed up by the same increment.
Also have "Enhancer for UA-cam" which has a lot of other features too, but I have it set to automatically start all videos at 2x speed and I adjust if needed from there.
In all seriousness I’ve read that to increase understanding when you’re listening at a high speed, you can read the book at the same time as listening! Apparently it rly helps keep u focused
I usually listen to audiobooks at about 1.5x speed, but it depends on the reader. I just find 1x speed to be too slow, but I still want to be able to enjoy and understand the book.
Anything above 2x speed sounds like gibberish to me. 1x speed is pretty slow. I think 1.5x speed is the best for me
Ok, so compared to a lot of people here it looks like I read audiobooks SUPER slow ... I generally prefer a 1.15.-1.2 speed, will really never go above 1.3 (and if I do it's because I don't like the reader anyway, so I'll often just put the audiobook down), and if I really like the narrator I won't speed it up at all!
To me an audiobook is a different experience from reading text. I really enjoy different narrators' takes on stories; many are incredibly talented. I also don't read audiobooks for accessibility reasons (though somewhat for convenience, like if I'm driving), so if I choose the audiobook, it's because I want to read that particular story on audio, and I usually want to pay close attention to the narrator's style.
Also, like Divya, I often have trouble with certain accents on audio, mostly ones I'm not as familiar with.
I'm the same way! 1.2-1.3x is my usual listening speed, and even 1.3 i find I end up zoning our or missing words. I can do 1.5 but I think I just don't like the pacing. I feel like i miss things if i go faster and b/c I write too, I want to be able to absorb the writing style so I can learn from it (whether its good or bad lol). I think doing 1.25ish baseline speed I've come to find regular 1x speed too slow now but i do want to enjoy the performance & i think 1.2x you get both.
I could probably work my way up if I wanted but 3x speed is wild to me! tbh it even surprises me when ppl admit they watch yt 2x speed all the time, unless its somthing i really wanna Get Through I usally just vibe at 1-1.25x.
Tbh if I'd been listening to audiobooks in school tho I feel like I abosolutely would've trained myself to listen at 2x or higher tho for more practical reasons
You’re not slow, most people just have a tragically messed up attention span nowadays. Consider yourself lucky.
so is this a safe space to say that i dont get the booktubers who listen to audiobooks on 2.5x speed??? i tried to work my way to that speed but i found myself giving up and it sounds gibberish. listening to 1x with good voice actors though, remains my fav speed to be at! (tho maybe i am just not into audiobooks in general personally bc i need to see words to remember/process it) ngl tho i borrow children's audio book and have it read it to me as i go sleep cos we gotta heal our inner child somehow
frantically watching uni lecture recordings at 2x speed the night before an exam has trained me well for this
😂😂Same. It takes some time, but once you're used to it...
ngl love i was listening to this on 2x speed (i do it for all yt videos i cannot concentrate otherwise + efficient relaxation during exam season ;;) and i think the love hypothesis hits best when it is a fuzz of 4-6x speed as i heard it here, just some calming white noise and no uncomfy wattpad words perceived
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Yes I always watch UA-cam on 2x and people think I’m weird. 😂
UA-cam does a really good job keeping the audio legible even at 6x :)
Cntrl+Shift+J
document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0].playbackRate = x
set x to the play value you want :)
2x speed is the sweet spot for my short attention span. any more and it gives me a headache 😩
but a semester’s worth of recorded lectures the night before the exam? 4x speed 😭
Me watch this video at 2x speed, while hear the audio of the speed up books 😳😅
you're living in ultra productivity mode
I usually listen to audiobooks at 2X speed, but depending on the narrator, sometimes I need to slow it down to 1.75.
No but when you got to “c. How long would I even do this” I KNEW the “when will you wear wigs?” Clip was coming, I could feel it!!
i love that clip so much it makes me laugh everytime
I slowly ramp up my audiobook speed until it is the fastest the app offers. When I listen to 2x speed for too long I start thinking that it’s too slow.
The speed I listen to depends on the narrator. If they’re easy to understand and they do a good job differentiating the characters, then I’ll listen at 1.75-2x speed. If they’re a little difficult to understand then I listen at 1.25-1.5x. When I first started listening to audiobooks I’d listen at 1x speed which is unimaginable to me right now 😂 I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on the story if it’s being told to me that slowly. If I want to skim or reread just for the feels I’ll listen at 2.5x. I tried listening at 3x once and never again because even rereading feels impossible at that speed (unless the narrator speaks really slowly I guess).
It sucks when there are multiple narrators and one is easier to understand than the other cause then I have to keep adjusting the speed.
Also in general, I prefer American accents because they’re easier for me to get into. And I prefer female narrators because they’re usually better at ‘male’ voices than male narrators are at ‘female’ voices.
Who would be mad enough to listen to an audiobook at 3.5x speed?? It's like an immediate headache for me
You talk at 6x speed so this should be okay😂😂 jk but let me watch
This feels like a set up to just zone out or be hyper focused
brain no process!
A lot of 3x listeners have been listening to audiobooks at higher speeds for years and have trained the brain muscle.
That's cool
Exactly
I listen to books/podcast/UA-cam at 2X speed. 3X is tough though
you telling me I be talking at 2x speed my whole life?
we love an efficient speaker
May I just say that you look particularly gorgeous today!
I find audiobooks hard to listen to because it's just too difficult for me to immerse in whatever's going on, I just zooooone out
thank you!! and yeah i felt the same way it's really on and off for me with audiobooks
divya you're truly unhinged for this one
Personally most speeds above 2 are too fast for me unless I really don't like the book and want it to be over. 1.7-1.9 is generally my sweet spot but I range from 1.4 to 2.2
Bringing the real sigma grindset onto booktube 🥶🥶🥶🥶😈😈🙏💯💯💯
(This is a joke please don't mistake this as serious)
rise and GRIND!
It's x2 speed for me. Anything less is too slow for me 😅
I listened to audiobooks on 2x speed when i first started and now it's 2.5x to 3x depending on the narrator and what part on the plot I'm on. I'd also advise eyeballing the EPUB/book while listening to the audiobook at 2x plus speed. It really helps.
I saw an author whine about how listening to books faster than normal speed is bad because you lose the inflection and intent of the narrator and author and its a slap in the face of the author and narrator and man, I'm not buying anymore of their books. You can train your brain to listen for inflection. Also audiobooks are typically read slightly slower than average speaking speed to help those with auditory difficulties so it's grating for me to listen that slowly.
plss I listen to everything on 3x speed! it’s a little faster than my base reading ability and I find it really helps me focus-any slower and I get distracted. I even watch UA-cam videos (including this one) on 2x so listening to you play clips was quite funny :) I think listening to books that fast as a means of “gaming the system” is pretty toxic, but for people like me it honestly makes consuming books way more enjoyable. except I get frustrated with normal people talking sometimes!!
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You get accustomed to the speed fairly quickly. I listen to audiobooks in Spanish at 2.5, but I'll admit that in English I can barely manage anything over 1.5, and only when I'm not surrounded by noise. (side note: I also watch YT videos at 1.5, and I was too lazy too slow this one down for like the first half. 2.5 speed at 1.5 is wild XD)
i usually watch youtube videos at 1.25x - 1.75 speed, but i watched this on 1x speed for you divya
THE HORROR SOUNDTRACK BEHIND THEIR QUICKIE
didn't know i've been sitting in the top percent omg. i'm currently listening to the maidens and like...it's all good. if it's a book i'll want to take my time with, like when i listened to circe, i did times 2. but a fluffy romance or thriller that i listen to while doing the laundry...yeah 3x speed :)))
the irony, my reading speed is sooooooo slow lol
I don't mind you saying "..." about American accents--your type of British accent is one of the few I can really handle, next to like David Attenborough's...idk
I watched this, and later started to test it for myself. Long story short, I can only listen to audiobooks on 2.7-3x speed now, everything else feels wrong
Was scared of getting spoilers for the book but I couldn't understand a word from 1.5x forward, so that's good I guess.
I find with audiobooks ot takes time to train your brain to get to higher speeds and it doesn't work for everyone! Also the narrator matters. Some have accents or inflections or cadences or speeds that leans themselves to slower speeds or higher speeds. I have a narrator that I've listened to over 100 hours of their narration and I can go very high with her as I know her inflections well.
Also genre matters and your personality. I used to need to understand everything but some books I just don't need all the details and don't care if I miss words on occasion. Most of the time I can figure out what the word was by context.
your hair looks so cute!!
Thank you so much 😀
I have audio processing issues and the way you described listening to 3.5 and understanding that there were words there but not actually being able to pick them out and figure out the sentence being made is a struggle I have with everyday talking and especially listneing to music (I can listen to a long literally hundreds of times and still not know what most of the yrics are). Even 1.5 speed is enought to make me vomit so I never really up the speed.
i think your brain just kind of adapts to the speed. Like it's weird at first but then it's just how it is.
Yeah your right about it, for example, my brain and ears have adapted to fast speeds so I now can listen to 7.00 speed and I wanna continue going up
DIVYA YOU'RE KILLING ME
Me with my online lessons:
Intense packing should be an Olympic sport. !!!!
i will win i will prove my family proud
I watched this video on 2x speed as a sign of solidarity
I listen to youtube to 2× speed so I usually casually up it to 2.5× when listening to romance books
I watch all UA-cam videos on 2x speed so watching this and hearing the audiobook narration on like 5x speed was... Interesting
When I listen to books in 2.5x-3.5x speed I usually work up to it first and/or read along with a physical copy or e-book as well
I'm the same with needing the narrator to have a British or Irish accent, the same with relaxation videos..
great video, best believe I laughed at every single joke and dramatic editing
2-2.5 is the best for me, when I'm just sitting there listening. But while doing other things 1.5-1.75
Not me also watching this video on 1.5x speed, it sounds like complete gibberish lol
I always listen at like 1.8/2 times speed, at 3 times I couldnt decipher a word lol
I usually listen from 1,5 to 2 depending on the narrator :))
I don't listen to audiobooks purely because I can't for the life of me multitask and if I'm only listening I will fall asleep 🤣 plus the voice sometimes doesn't match the characters in my opinion
I listen from 2.0 to 2.5 depending on the book. Anything below 1.80 is too slow for me
Listening at 1X speed makes me uncomfortable 😂 way too slow for me personally
I feel like my tolerance is building up. I started on 1.2, progressed to 1.5 and now 1.8-2.0 is my baseline
This is the sleepiest Divya video yet. This girl needs REST. What is interfering with bestie's recuperation?? Is she being disturbed? Is she looking at phone before bed? My girl needs a sensory deprivation chamber.
Give this cutie a break rn? It's affected ME, an everyone else with a HEART.
If I listen to audiobook the speed is 2.5x, only for sim voice that is to fast so I do 2.2/2.3x
I listen to 1.5x speed, I’d easily lose my place if it was much faster lol
I work my way from 1.5x to 2.0x , it depends a lot on the narrator, and since english is not my first language sometimes i have to leave it on 1.5 because of the accent.
I listened to Fellowship of the Ring on 3x, occasionally 3.5x because it was so damn boring.
This genuinely made me laugh
I usually listen to audio books on 1x speed because even then my brain cannot comprehend what they are saying, usually also watch splatoon gameplay as I listen to audio books to actually focus on the plot
Me who’s watching the video at 2 times speed and reads books at 2-2.3speed
Oral performance is also nice when it's slow and you take your time! Take in what's happening, it makes a better story! :)
the most i can listen to is 2x and then above that my brain stops working
does anyone know what the pink hair thing she was braiding into her hair at 11:51 is? i really want to get one now
It’s a bath robe tie
ngl love the fit in the last part of the video, it looks great!!
i really cant listen to american narrated audiobooks i think its cos it jars with the accent my voice in my head has
Listening was giving me such a headache I'm sorry but I gotta bail. Comment for the algo tho 🖤
haha nw ty anyway!
my mum does it soooooo fast its impossible to understand
i hate listening to anything but 3x speed
I can easily do 2.7 speed
3x speed is the speed i listen on unless they have accents or it’s high fantasy, i usually read along with 3x speed
i loooooove listening to audiobooks super fast!!
hiiii omg paused mitski for this going to be slay i think
vivendo e aprendendo(evoluindo)
You cute
watching this on x2 speed on yt was an experience for sure, haha
I watch/listen to everything t 1,5-2 times speed, depending on the accent of the person speaking, since english isn't my first language and it can be tricky sometimes :D
I don't listen to audiobooks, but I watch YT videos at 1.5-2x speed depending on what's happening on screen and/or the speed of the person talking.
i usually listen on 2,5x speed if I have a physical book in front of me to look at and 2x speed when I’m just listening and doing something else.
When I first started listening to audiobooks, I started with 1.75x speed (I already watched YT videos at 1.75x). Now I really can't go below 2.3x. But for rereads I can easily go for 3.0x and sometimes even 3.5x, but rereads only.
I listen to audiobooks at 3x speed and it’s so annoying Overdrive stops at 2x😭 I can hardly keep up if I listen without headphones though so maybe try that? It helps me focus on what they’re saying. I really love the efficiency of listening on 3x and I can’t deal with how slow 2x and under sound
I have had boring books i want to finish narrated extra slow that i can speed up to 2.5 no problem. I usually pay attention best at 1.5-1.75.
When the narrator has an accent I’m not familiar With i have to show it way down though
My normal speed is 1.25x, otherwise it sounds too slow and unnatural
I always watch UA-cam videos and listen to audio books in accelerated speed because otherwise I can’t concentrate and get bored immediately
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2x is good for me if I'm listening out loud. But if I'm listening with headphones in, I can do 3x speed. It's strange, I think because I've isolated the book and nothing's distracting me. However, if I'm following the book with my eyes I can do 3.5x depending on the general speed of the narration
It really depends on the narrator, some are much faster than others, but I'm alright with 1.75x to 2x listening speed which way below my reading speed and I wonder if that's because I'm more of a visual learner rather than audio.
1.75 is my go to speed, but if its a boring audiobook I tend to speed it up haha, i wouldn't go more than x2 though
The faster the speed the more robotic it sounds to me, which really takes me out of the story and I can't listen to it. I think 2x is my max.
I mean I’ve listen to books at 1x at 2x and 3x. It really depends on the narration and on what I’m doing. Like if I’m hating the book and I want to finish it quickly I listen to it 3x and if I love it too
I'm surprised the video wasn't sponsored by audible lol
I can listen to audiobooks on 3 to 3.5x depending upon the narrator, I have been listening to audiobooks for years now and started with 1.5x and slowly grew from there. After your first few times, listening to the book at 3x gets easy