Speed control in page view works as expected, but in sentence view always seems to play back at 1x whatever the selected speed. This is using the browser app and latest Chrome version on Windows 11, and reading a YouTube video imported via an audio file. (The original video has embedded subtitles rather than CC, which I didn’t want to view, but is otherwise excellent beginner material.)
Is there some setting that I have failed to spot or is it an apparent bug or some artefact of importing as an audio file?
Hi @johnd2 !
To play the audio/video with the changed speed in Sentence View you can:
1 Choose the speed by clicking on the small dropdown icon near the turtle/
rabbit button.
2 Click on the turtle/rabbit button
Please, let me know if this does not work for you.
Thanks for the reply but I do understand how one is meant to change the speed in Sentence mode. The problem is that this is not working for me on my - presumably commonplace - Windows 11 / Chrome platform. Whichever speed I select from this button always plays at the same (1x ?) speed.
@johnd2 I tested on my end on Chrome too and it does work. I think what you are doing wrong is, that after you select a desired speed, you need to click on the turtle to play that audio speed, not on the regular play button.
Fantastic! I see my mistake now. Thanks Zoran and also apologies to Denys_B, whose post I misinterpreted. It’s perhaps not the most intuitive UI element, but all OK now that I know what to do.
I thought this was broken too and I was reporting the issue, found this post. Can you change the behavior so the play button (rather than the rabbit) also uses the selected speed?
Comprehensible input demands a lot of sentences. Please add a play-at-slower-speed keyboard shortcut (that also goes to the next sentence and shows the translation).
@bbbblinq We’ll see what can be done regarding the shortcuts. @jeremygo What makes the difference here? You need to tap on it to play the audio, how is it easier to tap on the Play instead of the Rabbit?
@zoran: There’s no difference in ease of use in pressing the 2 buttons. The issue is about consistency in the UI. It should require the same action in both page and sentence view so that you don’t have to stop and think which button should i be pressing in this particular context. The more consistency then the more instinctive using the UI can become.
Agree with what johnd2 said – the point is that it’s confusing and unexpected. I was ready to report a bug, and I think many users would be confused by this. It is not intuitive behavior. With YouTube, for example, you increase the speed, and then use the same play button you always use.
@johnd2@jeremygo Thanks for your feedback, guys. I appreciate it. I asked because I was curious to hear your opinion on this. I’ll forward your feedback to our team and we’ll see what we can do to make it more intuitive.
Thank you. I also asked a friend of mine just now, just to see if they could figure it out, and they did not. They were surprised as well by the behavior.
For me the confusion comes from the fact that the turtle button is perceived as secondary to the play button, since it’s smaller in size and the color is less prominent (at least in the android app). They look really nice, but I would never have guessed that they both are meant to play sound - the turtle one looks absolutely like a settings button to me.
