Can speed hearing increase intelligence?

[Yuki Da Costa]

While I was traveling in Japan, I bought this book called "Sokucho"
which means speed hearing. The book came with a CD which had a audio
of a guy reading a text in Japanese. In each track the speed would
increase from twice as fast to maximum of four times as fast. The
author claims that we can increase our intelligence by listening and
understanding the sped up speech. This program reminded of the speed
reading software(eyeq) which forces you read sentences really fast in
order to speed up your reading. I have been looking at studies about
speed hearing but I couldn't find any. What do you guys think of speed
hearing to increase intelligence? I visited a site called sokucho.com
but it doesn't look very promising to me.

[Paul H]

I remember reading about how speakers of different languages have different digit spans because of how long or short the words for the numbers 0-9 are and how fast they can be spoken. I was thinking of creating some training material for myself by taking audiobooks and speeding them up using audio software to 2x or 3x the speed. If speed listening can increase the speed of internal dialogue, this could help increase working memory capacity in the phonological loop (which has a fixed duration if i remember correctly) because more words could fit into the same duration. 

Paul

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[foobeer]

Hi, afaik the (phonological) information you can store in your WM is dependent on the speed you can think/rehearse words (I refer to the word-lentgh-effect). So you might save some bits by cramming in some more/longer word(s|groups).
That could help indeed but I don't think that could transfer to Gf.

foobeer

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