Listening to audiobooks and podcasts at 1.2x speed is ideal. It's not so fast you lose track — and you can finish a 10-hour book in 8 hours and 20 minutes Spotify provided data showing that 98.5% of ...

Speed-watching has become an increasingly common way to consume content. A new analysis looks at its effect on older and younger brains. The fast and the curious? If you’re a big fan of watching ...

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Boosting playback speed is a common occurrence with most YouTube content these days, especially with podcasts, and Google is making it easier to 2x videos with a new gesture. Currently, on mobile, ...

Sometimes people talk too slow and you want to play the video faster without missing any content. Or maybe you want to slow down YouTube videos so you can better understand what people are saying.

I know (from using programs that give me fine-grained control over playback speed) that the "2x" playback speed is not actually twice as fast. It sounds more like 1.5 or 1.75 speed. (Most people would ...