<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Jan 6, 2020, at 19:56, Michael Paoli <<a href="mailto:Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu" class="">Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">From: "Deirdre Saoirse Moen" <<a href="mailto:deirdre@deirdre.net" class="">deirdre@deirdre.net</a>><br class="">Subject: Re: [conspire] Update for BALE<br class="">Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:32:36 -0800<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">helped. For me, while I find videos annoying with the amount of time it takes vs. reading, I retain the information better.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Doesn't totally "fix" that issue, but I do like how some video<br class="">platforms (e.g. YouTube), allow one to change the playback<br class="">speed - without altering the audio pitch. So, e.g. on<br class="">YouTube, can play the video back at up to 2x original speed.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Yes, I do manipulate playback speed a lot, but I also watch a lot of videos where there’s…just a lot of air.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">I wish all such video "training" - and the like - platforms, had<br class="">ability to adjust speed like that ... and better yet to much more<br class="">than 2x. (If you ever watched a blind user suck down text-to-speech,<br class="">can be quite impressive the rate at which the audio can be listened to<br class="">and very well comprehended).<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I have a blind friend who works in web accessibility, and she really showed me how quickly she could read. I love audio, but I can’t handle that much speech that quickly.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">[…]<br class=""><br class="">I also like when videos also have full transcripts. Some can be quite<br class="">poor on that though, if they're automatically machine generated (though<br class="">can still sometimes be useful to search, though - such as locating in<br class="">what video, or about where in the video).<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Full transcripts also help when it’s in a foreign language. I actually watch quite a few non-English videos. Like YT’s smart enough to know I’m a big fan of Russian Calligraffiti artist ПОКРАСА ЛАМПАСА (Pokras Lampas), but it doesn’t know enough to know I can’t understand him talking about his art:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://youtu.be/PUdHnMEWx_8?t=193" class="">https://youtu.be/PUdHnMEWx_8?t=193</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>but this one has no words, so it’s fine:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVgpwLiuKA" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExVgpwLiuKA</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>and another:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcQ7u4zo6U" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgcQ7u4zo6U</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Deirdre</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>