While I love the smart smart speed of Overcast I was just listening to a podcast by @hubermanlab where he mentioned that there is some evidence that (pauses improve learning)[https://overcast.fm/+2-B-zhE2U/36:34]
This felt like it hit the head on something I've noticed, which is that when listening to some podcasts with smart silence and a bit of speed boost it might be super interesting but at the end I don't remember much of what was said.
And it just hit me, I wonder if it would be beneficial to combine the two things, reduces silences to speed up, but injects artificial pauses every now and then to allow for more efficient learning?
Is this something you'd be interested in implementing @marcoarment ?
There does not seem to be any clear research on how long the pauses need to be, the paper Huberman referred did 10s training and 10s pauses improved muscle memory notably but that's not really relevant for remembering stuff in a podcast. Also it's hard to know when to pause, it would need to be after an enough content has been presented when some quick reflection would be beneficial.
Now when I write it down, it seems like an app can't possibly pause at the right moment.. so maybe the feature would be to add a pause-10s feature which auto-resumes 10s after being paused.
But how would it know if you want to pause for real or just to let your brain think about what you just heard?
Oh well, dumping it here for someone smarter to maybe figure something out :-)
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