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OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio

(george.mand.is)
685 points georgemandis | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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heeton ◴[25 Jun 25 15:10 UTC] No.44378250[source]▶
A point on skimming vs taking the time to read something properly.

I read a transcript + summary of that exact talk. I thought it was fine, but uninteresting, I moved on.

Later I saw it had been put on youtube and I was on the train, so I watched the whole thing at normal speed. I had a huge number of different ideas, thoughts and decisions, sparked by watching the whole thing.

This happens to me in other areas too. Watching a conference talk in person is far more useful to me than watching it online with other distractions. Watching it online is more useful again than reading a summary.

Going for a walk to think about something deeply beats a 10 minute session to "solve" the problem and forget it.

Slower is usually better for thinking.

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1. conradev ◴[25 Jun 25 16:45 UTC] No.44379324[source]▶
Was it the speed or the additional information vended by the audio and video? If someone is a compelling speaker, the same message will be way more effective in an audiovisual format. The audio has emphasis on certain parts of the content, for example, which is missing from the transcript or summary entirely. Video has gestural and facial cues, also often utilized to make a point.