Dice Player

Sunday, 15 March, 2015

I often download and later watch talks from TED, as well as a range of podcasts. Good presenters often talk quite slowly in order to improve clarity, particularly for live performances. However when playing these back they don’t need to be this slow as you can listen at a much faster speed…… and if you dont catch it first time you can always replay it. Take a look at Donald Clark’s blog for some pointers on the power of audio….

As a result I looked for an Android media player that can increase playback speed - and Dice Player is the one I have currently settled on. One problem of speeding up audio is that the pitch changes (see Wikipedia) which means a player needs to correct for this. Dice Player does a great job and I find I can speed up TED talks by 1.3x, a great time saver!

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