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Originally Posted by hobnail
Makes me wonder how fast the players are for the blind. I remember reading somewhere that they can listen to screen readers and audiobooks at a very high speed.
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At one point, I was involved with a group that developed a playback device that sped up and frequency shifted audio to allow playing back voice recordings at higher speeds. It could get up to 300-325WPM without sounding too bad but at 400WPM, you were definitely getting into chipmunk territory. Normal speech playback is about 150-160WPM. The experimental model was used at the Crane Library but, AFAIK, it never commercially produced.
The Audible player goes up to 3x but I've never listened to it at anything over 1.25x.