Hi William, Let me suggest that one way to cope with existing podcasts is to control playback speed. On the iPhone and iOS devices you can reduce speed to half for playback. On your Mac, you can use VLC or Quicktime Player to play back at variable speed (faster or slower). If you want to use iTunes, you can make an AppleScript that will playback your selected track at a speed of your choosing.
I did a quick Mail Archive search on "from:Esther playback speed" and found several old posts. Here's a link to the first one: • Re: Audio playback with speed control http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg01038.html describes speed control capability in VLC and QuickTime • Re: speeding up media http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg34403.html (note that the instructions to use the QuickTime player controls now require using Command-Shift-R and NOT Command-R to show the file in Finder under the most recent iTunes) • Re: speeding up podcasts http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg09819.html This post includes sample AppleScripts for changing the playback speed and then changing back to normal speed while keeping the bookmark position -- although the example uses a speed up (e.g. 1.5 times or 1.33 times) you can make this a slower time (e.g. 0.7 times). HTH. Thank goodness I didn't have to use the Google Groups archive searching to find these posts. The macvisionaries Mail Archive page is: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com Just type your searches in the text box. For tips on search syntax check the FAQ: http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html Cheers, Esther On Jul 31, 2011, at 10:34, William Windels wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am sending this mail to both lists: macvisionaries and viphone mailing > list. > > I just want to share/ask something about recording podcastts for everyone. > I, and perhaps some others, who don't speak English as first language, find > it sometimes difficult to listen to podcasts where the computer- or other > device-voice is set fast. > IN mac terms, 40% of the speed is good but, in quiet a lot podcasts , the > speed seems to be something like 60 or higher. > I am simply guessing but, it's fast. > >> So, I would simply ask/suggest to set a lower speed if you record podcasts >> for a international public. > > > Pls, let me or the list know about any comments about this. > > Thx for yoru understanding and have a good day! > William > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
