RRecently, Guillaume Canet was interviewed by the media Brut on the fact that some people watch his latest film in three-quarters of an hour instead of an hour and a half. It’s amazing how much mental flexibility we’ve gained since the time, half a century ago, when we worried about whether the move of films to the small screen wouldn’t bother their directors. We may wonder what Victor Hugo would have answered if we had asked him about his feelings about reading the abridged edition of the Misérables by a group of students.
Accelerated playback, a feature initially deployed on porn sites, has spread to all platforms and passive, real-time viewing or listening has become less and less natural to us. Teachers and parents know something about this: a study conducted in 2021 by the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) indicated that 85% of students viewed audio or video files in accelerated mode. Better still, an experiment conducted with an audio document on the Roman Empire showed that those who had listened to it in × mode 2 had obtained the same results on a comprehension test as those who had followed it at a normal pace. On the other hand, the evaluation deteriorated for students who had opted for × 2,5.
While we have all become audio Frankensteins, the question of limits continues to arise. For what type of program should acceleration be prohibited? Because, surprisingly, button freaks × 1,5 or × 2 have in common that they always specify which categories of sound programs for which it would seem sacrilegious to modify the playback speed.
-How do we recognize them?
They manage their reading like jogging and increase the pace, starting at × 1.2, then increasing to × 1.5 when their ears get used to it. They consider that they are doing a service to the director of the podcast or series, judging that he did not find the right tempo and that, without this functionality, they would not listen to or see as much of it. They always know someone who has a better rhythm than them.
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