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Old 01-19-2019, 01:03 PM   #3449
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I almost never use Alexa to listen to Audible; I'd rather stream Audible through her from a device. I like the controls and I especially like how granular the speed of the Audible app has gotten, with 0.05 intervals. 1.25X is too fast for me with a reasonably fast narrator reading fiction when the performance matters, but 1.10X is imperceptible and saves a lot of time over the course of 20+ hour book.

That said, I'm glad to know. More tools are always good.
I almost never did with the first generation Echo/Dot devices. Audio quality just wasn't good enough. And I wouldn't have thought that was an issue with an audio book, but it appears to have been. Now, with a new Echo in my office, I sometimes listen to a book in there when I'm waiting on something to install, or compile, or whatever. Whereas before, I would have used the Audible app on my desktop or phone.
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