Things I think would have improved this a lot, for me:
a visual indicator of who was “speaking”; this could be as simple as a light gray box around the “speaker”
significantly larger “inflection” in the voice. More dynamic range. More variance in loudness and pitch. I don’t know how easy or hard this is to tune with the tools used, but the voices all felt much flatter than my brain wanted them to sound
more visual going on in general; a scrolling transcipt on the right, maybe
These seem useful if OP wants to put in considerably more time, but just wanted to mention that I listened to it without watching the video and I think it was great without any additional visual resources.
Yeah I don’t know how much time any of these would take compared to what was already done. Like is this 20% more work, or 100% more, or 500% more?
But good point: I listened to about a quarter, upped the speed to 1.5x, and stopped after about a half. When I decided to write feedback, I also decided I should listen to the rest, and did, but would not have otherwise. And, oddly enough, I think I may have been more likely to listen to the whole thing if I didn’t have visuals, because I would have played it while gardening or whatever. :D
I had a bit of trouble hearing the difference in voice between Trump and Biden, at the start. I solved this by actually imagining the presidents. Not visually, since I’m not a visual person, just loading up the general gestalt of their voices and typical way of speaking into my working memory.
Another way to put it: When I asked my self “which if the voices I heard so far is this” I sometimes could not tell. But when I asked my self “who is this among Obama, Trump and Biden” it was always clear.
Things I think would have improved this a lot, for me:
a visual indicator of who was “speaking”; this could be as simple as a light gray box around the “speaker”
significantly larger “inflection” in the voice. More dynamic range. More variance in loudness and pitch. I don’t know how easy or hard this is to tune with the tools used, but the voices all felt much flatter than my brain wanted them to sound
more visual going on in general; a scrolling transcipt on the right, maybe
These seem useful if OP wants to put in considerably more time, but just wanted to mention that I listened to it without watching the video and I think it was great without any additional visual resources.
Yeah I don’t know how much time any of these would take compared to what was already done. Like is this 20% more work, or 100% more, or 500% more?
But good point: I listened to about a quarter, upped the speed to 1.5x, and stopped after about a half. When I decided to write feedback, I also decided I should listen to the rest, and did, but would not have otherwise. And, oddly enough, I think I may have been more likely to listen to the whole thing if I didn’t have visuals, because I would have played it while gardening or whatever. :D
I had a bit of trouble hearing the difference in voice between Trump and Biden, at the start. I solved this by actually imagining the presidents. Not visually, since I’m not a visual person, just loading up the general gestalt of their voices and typical way of speaking into my working memory.
Another way to put it: When I asked my self “which if the voices I heard so far is this” I sometimes could not tell. But when I asked my self “who is this among Obama, Trump and Biden” it was always clear.