Learn More, Faster With Speed Listening Audio
May 28th, 2008
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by BobTheTeacher · Filed Under: Business Building · Internet Marketing Seminars · Product Reviews · Productivity
Twitter Lesson With FasterAudios.com: (Before you click play above, read this quick post so you aren’t flipping out :)
I have a quick question for you…
If I could show you how to save 12 minutes or more for every hour of audio training you want to learn from, would that help you?
As a former teacher, I’m always looking for ways to improve my own learning methods, as well as those of the people I coach.
In school, each teacher had their own agenda of homework each night, adding up to hours and hours of reading and practice.
The students who did well usually had developed some sort of “tricks” for reading material faster, hyper-focus, and remembering what they learned.
Perhaps you’ve picked up some tricks for speed reading and comprehension along the way, too?
But what about all those MP3s and podcasts you want to learn from, especially the ones that do not have transcripts.
Have you figured out a way to speed up your listening?
Sounds funny doesn’t it?
However, this is no joke – I recently met a man in Orlando at a business growth conference (the one with Rich Schefren, remember?). Here’s a picture of the two of us (yes, he seems a bit intense, and I seem out of it – but it’s really the flash talking!)
Faster Audios Creator Mark Benda With Bob The Teacher
His name is Mark Benda, and he had his laptop in his hands. He was very interested to hear from me what I was doing with Web 2.0 and how I was using my teaching skills to impact the lives of thousands around the world.
Then he pulled me aside and showed me something that will revolutionize learning for people of all ages, and for all purposes.
It’s called Faster Audios – a simple software program you install on your computer (took me less than 67 seconds to download and all of 34 seconds to install).
You run any MP3 audio file through this program, set the speed at 125%, 150% or even 225% or higher,
and out comes a “faster audio”.
Now, I tried to do this before with Audacity, and unfortunately, everything sounded like chipmunks
with just a 125% increase.
That doesn’t make me want to learn at all!
But with the Faster Audios software, I was amazed at how good the quality was when the file speed was increased.
Mark showed me how our brains can easily comprehend audios at 150% without having to really think about it.
And with practice, you can go to 200% or more. The best part is, because of the way our brains work in processing this, we actually focus harder on what we are hearing, increasing our comprehension of the material.
But let’s do the math here.
If you can speed up your existing audio training (perhaps one of my teleminar recordings for example), think of how much time you will save for other parts of your business.
At 125%, a 1 hour audio turns into 48 minutes.
At 150%, you’ll save 20 minutes, and if you can get up to 200% you’re talking about cutting your learning time in half without sacrificing understanding!
Of course, “hearing is believing”, so let me share with you a segment of one of new training programs coming out this summer. (It’s at the top of this page…)
This is a 27 minute lesson on Twitter, set to 150% speed so the software shaved off 10 minutes of the recording.
See how the conversation between Scott and I can still be easily understood, and how much you learn about Twitter in a shorter time period! Write a quick comment below to let me know what you think of the training and the Faster Audios software.
Then go pick up Faster Audios for your own use and start turning all those MP3s into speed listening training sessions.
Bob Jenkins
p.s. I’m so happy to have met Mark Benda in Orlando. His Faster Audios software is helping me learn more in less time – plus I get to help more people do the same when I convert my training to faster audios, too.
p.p.s. When you listen to the audio, there are a couple of spikes in the sound – this is because of the original audio, not because of the software.
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| Bob Jenkins is an internet business marketing teacher, with ten years experience teaching teenagers and teachers. He is the creator of several online training courses that teach you how to get better customers and increase your profits. Specializing in social networking strategies for business and creating information products from teleseminars, Bob can help you use internet marketing tools and strategies to promote your business online. |
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Hello Bob, as usual, even your free training is packed with valuable, usable content. This mini-tour of Twitter gave me several ideas that will get me more involved in the community of Twitter. Also the information about the links and tiny URLs is very helpful and powerful in that your advice will help me protect and promote my brand which would otherwise have been lost in the link. Your discussion of proper protocol in following those who follow you, and your strong reminder to pay attention to content and begin real discussions that will lead to any number of beneficial results set a clear path for any serious user of Twitter.
I have been a member of Twitter for several months and immediately loved the concept of short, short concise posts. The graphics and the mood of the site is upbeat and awesome.
Now, with your quick training, I think I’m ready to spend the time and effort to really become involved with Twitter. Thank you for your insightful help.
As to the faster audio. Your voice sounded somewhat strained however, as a trade-off for pushing through an audio presentation more quickly, I could get used to it. We all have so much reading and listening to do, I think any amount of time saved is worth the effort. I don’t believe I missed any important points and found a couple spots where I was relieved to move quickly through what might have been natural pauses or delays that occur in normal speed playback.
All in all, both aspects of your presentation were top drawer! Thanks again.
See you on Twitter where my burning desire is to find out how to customize the profile page with cooler graphics, etc.
Hi Bob,
I am familiar with speed reading but have not heard of speed listening. You are right – with so many audio information around, I could literally spend WEEKS just listening to it all. So saving some of this time would be a good idea.
HOWEVER – listening to this audio made my mind spind even more than it usually does. I felt stressed after listening to your audio. I sensed that you provide useful information and I felt like I am trying to hold on to sand running through my hands. The words just slip by too fast to really “grab” them (not speaking of “digesting” them).
So as much as I would like to save some time with audios – I personally HATE this approach. I wears me out. My favorite way to save time is to go through a transcript to see if this audio is even worth listening to. I can go back and forth and read those passages again that I found particularly interesting.
The only other way I “save” time with audios or teleseminars etc. is if I do something else and listen to it in the background – which is not doing justice to the audio or whatever else I am doing either.
But then – what does not work for my brain might work great for others. It is definately an approach worth pursuing. But I would request you put a link up for “normal speeders” as well…
Hi Bob
That was great.
I got the messages clearly – I tuned out the imperfect sounds.
Ugh! The faster audio sounds ghastly. I listen to a lot of audio and Yes, I’d like to reduce the time. That’s why I go for pdf training rather than audio but this sounded, well “stressful” is as close as I can get.
Just part of the “I want it now” society.
Bob, since you introduce this in terms of learning it would be interesting to know if there are any educational trials with groups of students – one group with normal speed audio and the other with faster audio?
All The Best
alex
Hi Alex – thanks for the comment. I haven’t done trials but you are right – that would be something to look into. Perhaps Mark Benda, who created the software will be able to do that.
As for the sound quality of this particular file, here are a few things to remember: this one is set to 150%. When you have the software, you can choose any speed you want and preview it before you save it. Also, the sound quality of the original file has a couple of blips in it from the phone recording that seem to have some interference that I could have edited out before publishing this one.
As I’ve said and others have commented, each person will have their own speed they can handle and learn from; it’s great the Faster Audio software has the flexibility to treat each person individually.
Bob
Bob: Appreciate all the extra training you give – but this is not one of the ones I would want – Myabe it’s just me – but I feel I really missed a lot of what was said. I would rather take the extra time to listen and get ALL the information.
Bob,
You travel in brilliant circles, really. I recall your mentioning the upcoming fast audio program last month, but when I saw (and heard) it in action, I knew I just had to have it. I’ve already listened to several mp3s, including one of yours. Most amazing of all, I find I can listen and absorb everything at 200% speed without loosing any comprehension. In fact, I beleive I absorbed and retained more. Absouteley wonderful!
Thanks for the tip!
Peter Loughlin
http://www.InternetMarketingLens.com
hi
Wow I wondered if you guys were on something — or I should have been!
Great experience but one I don’t think I would want to repeat on a regular basis. My head was spinning after a few seconds and I was really struggling to retain anything. But then again, my brain is older and by the end of the day somewhat slower!
Thanks for letting me try it! hmmmmmmmmmmm
Jeanne