Novel reason here 🤔
Sci-fi story idea here: world where all audio conversation is heard at 2x. Real-time speed-up giving you more silence. We have noise cancellation already, why not signal speed-up?
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Most people read faster than they hear, so, isn’t the generic solution transcripts to podcast conversations in thread form on Twitter?
Asking for a friend.
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You’ve no doubt had many “yep, got it” conversations with bright as hell folks.
People dropping the unnecessary rhetoric has the same effect as 2x time compression, maybe more.
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Auto-speed up (because some people talk slower than others). You could also add filters to remove ah’s and um’s and a bs filter to remove irrelevant parts of a convo if it’s a business conversation unless you want to read between the lines (which could be a point of the story)
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And just what about this world (particularly Twitter) makes you think that you’d get more silence out of that deal instead of more noise?
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“Soanywayhowwasyourweekend?Iwenttothelakewithmymotherinlawandshegotawickedsunburn...”
He nodded every once in a while, just to be polite. His earpiece had already analyzed her entire story and played it to him at 5x speed. Now, for the next 47 seconds, he could listen to Mozart.
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Could use something like GPT-3 to predictively complete people’s sentences after the first few words and play the audio at faster speed. So, speaking would essentially be manipulating the auto-fill algorithm and occasional “oops lol autocorrect” SNAFUs
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