One of the most common things that I hear when I'm talking about Swell or podcast in general, is that people say, quote, I just don't like the sound of my own voice. Now, this is totally understandable and there's a scientific reason behind that. What you hear inside your head is definitely going to sound different when you hear it from an external source. So the voice that we hear is going to sound a little bit strange and a little bit foreign or alien to you
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 0:43
You know when in those old movies when they used to hold bone away and you hear somebody's voice going it was a bit like that. So I prefer you at your normal speed, which isn't slow. It's pretty fast, man. Sometimes people talk so fast you can't understand what they're saying
Hey, this is funny. I listen to everything at two times speed here on soil and often wish there was even a faster option. But anyway, there are the occasions when I need to slow it down to one or 125 or one five or whatever to catch a word or a phrase that I didn't quite catch at two or the pronunciation of something or this kind of thing, and so I'll slow it down, but then sometimes I've forgotten
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Mark. I listen to you and Phil and everyone else at two time speed. I don't even know if I would recognize the two of you if it was at one point speed. Maybe I should go test that out right now
Okay. That was an interesting experiment, Mark. I think I would have no difficulties recognizing you at normal speed and phil. There are hints of what I'm used to hearing at one time, speed. But in a lot of ways, it sounds different. This is something else I found that's fascinating. With some engines, when they speed it up, there's almost a ton, tonal quality that's lost or so
phil spade
@Phil · 0:58
Christina, thank you for mentioning this. Something I wanted to mention, but I forgot to, is that when you do play back at higher speed, sometimes things can be taken out of context or you kind of lose some of those nuances. Exactly what you said. And at 1.5, people can sound a lot angrier than what they actually are at 1.0. Especially when somebody is emotional about something or somebody is very passionate about something, it can be expanded on, expounded on
I feel that there are certain conversations on Clubhouse, for example, and I won't even listen to them unless they have a replay that I can go back and speed up because of this. And also YouTube videos. Yeah, I use that option to speed up YouTube videos all the time. It would be nice if we could do it on some television shows too. If not that, at least give me, like, you know how they've got the button that will go back 10 seconds