This was a sidebar to the previous article.  I wonder how soon a two hour
movie will be accelerated to 90 minutes to allow for added television
commercials.  I think you will be impressed by listening to the time altered
music and voice clips (i.e. James Brown) clips on Mr. Liang's web site.


Tools to Help You Listen

   Tools

   Enounce Plug-In
   [1]www.enounce.com
   The 2XAV plug-in, which allows accelerated playback on Real or Windows
   media players, can be downloaded for $29.95 (free seven-day trial
   period; no Mac version available).

   Windows Media Player 9
   [2]www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia
   To use the built-in variable-speed playback feature in Windows Media
   Player 9 (only for XP-based systems), go to the Play menu and select
   Play Speed. You can also gain access to this feature through
   View/Enhancements/Play Speed Settings.

   Panasonic DVD
   [3]www.panasonic.com
   Some of Panasonic's latest DVD recorders (for example, the DMR-E50 and
   DMR-E60) and players (the DVD-S35) allow a disc to play at up to 1.7
   times its original speed, allowing you to watch some movies in just
   over an hour.

   Talking Book Player
   [4]www.telex.com
   The Telex Scholar Digital Talking Book Player, designed for the blind
   and dyslexic, is a hand-held device that plays back CD's or MP3's at
   accelerated speeds ($249).

   Recordings

   Yi Liang's Site
   [5]ivms.stanford.edu/~liang/research/sigproc2/index.html
   Some recorded examples of digitally accelerated (30 percent) speech
   can be heard at a site maintained by Mr. Liang, a Stanford doctoral
   student.

   Research Papers

   [6]rvl4.ecn.purdue.edu/~malcolm/interval/1997-061 (very fast examples)

   [7]www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/sp.html


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