My favourite ‘net-browsin’ laptop – a five and a half year old Toshiba Satellite – admired not only for the dedicated duration of its superb service but for its 15″ 800×600 native resolution’s lovely level of lexical legibility (unexpectedly thoroughly trouncing what my “new” (mildy disappointing) 14.1″ Lenovo ThinkPad can display as the more modern screen’s spec’s force me to SQUINT at e.mails it has torturously tinyfied to spec’s-begging specks) has been utterly accepting of my installation of Windows Media Player 10.
YAY !
I’m as “late to the party” adding that software to my system as I am entering the Blogosphere ; version 11 has been current for a long time. The feature that prompted my download (and upgrade) was the program’s ability to alter the speed of audio playback ; on-the-fly.
Being able to increase the pace of the reading of <dour and dismal> news articles is HUGELY HELPFUL. My machine can manage to double dictation’s delivery on a sliding scale up to 2x that of natural narration. That top-end is certainly sufficiently swift for management by my biological CPU.
This is much quicker than having to convert the original audio files – and the speech is not distorted. Reach yer feach yer by clicking —>
View –> Enhancements –> Play Speed Settings
and ask yourself (and the makers of your alternative media players) why this convenience isn’t yet a universal.
OMG. So useful. I was looking for this in VLC…Winamp…But to find it in Windows Media Player I would not have expected. Thank you!