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		knur on April 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? How does it work? Does it really change the speed dynamically? Or it just trims the silences like pocketcasts?

ivank on April 13, 2020 [–]

Based on my observations and the details that Marco has blogged about, it seems to use a silence-detection algorithm that rapidly adjusts playback speed, so the silences are not cut out in a jarring manner, but rather played through at a typical 2.5-4x.

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