Listening Audio Book
Florencia Abila
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I'm wondering if it is okay for an employee-- while on the clock-- to listen to audiobooks, podcasts, TV shows (audio only) or other spoken word content while doing their work? We all handle some repetitious work on auto-pilot, like brushing our teeth, or vacuuming, mowing the lawn, or stuffing envelopes. In these cases, I don't consider spoken-word audio a distraction.
But if someone is doing analytical work or drafting a communication, or developing code, I wonder. Is it even possible for us to give our best to the work when part of our attention is captured by the story-line fed into our ear buds?
As well, how do you even know what they are listening to? At my workplace (we use Skype), headphones or earbuds can mean someone is on a call, listening to music, on a telco, listening to a webcast, or maybe listening to white noise or nothing at all while they try to screen out other distractions to focus on something.
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I often had the situation that I listened to a podcast episode or an audio book and there was something I wanted to remember or capture for later processing. It can be a reference to an interesting other knowledge source, a principle that I want to remember or something I want to share with a colleague or a friend.
When I listen to Podcasts, I am usually not in the situation as in the picture above. I will not be sitting in front of my desk and have a notebook available. I usually listen to podcasts when I am not at my desk.
But how to take a note and easily find the relevant information again in the audio source? Ok, some podcasts have transcripts, that could help to find the relevant information. Others have good show notes. But all of this might only be the second-best option and will not work e.g. with audio books.
To take notes while I listen to podcasts, I use the app Airr Airr - Highlight podcasts. Currently this app is only available for iOS, but there is a waitlist on airr.io, where you can sign up to get notified when the Andorid version is launched.
With this app you can easily create clips of 45 seconds of the current episode you are listening. You can even edit the clip that you take. If you are listening to a podcast in your car using a Bluetooth connection, you can click the previous track button to store a clip. With a headset you can simply triple click the headset button. After you created the clip you can add notes, so you remember later what the content of the clip was. These clips are stored online, and the links including your notes can be easily shared e.g. by mail or directly stored to a OneNote notepad on your smartphone. You can also directly integrate your notes and clips into tools like Readwise or RemNote.
Quite similar as with Podcasts, you can easily create 30 second clips from your audio books within the Audible app. Simply tap the clip button in the player view and add a note if you like. The main disadvantage that I can see, is that you cannot export the notes and clips.
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It is now February 2024 in this issue still exists. I just purchased a brand new stick 4K and having the exact same issue with private listening. I have tried three Bluetooth headphones and it's obviously not that and it certainly not my Wi-Fi connection. When is this going to be fixed and how do we get a refund in the meantime
Have you gone to your phone app settings and given the Roku app camera and microphone permissions? Then open the Roku remote app and play a YouTube video, hit the asterisk on the remote app screen and then scroll down to adjust audio delay? That seems to be the fix.
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We should recognize that listening while driving necessarily means that the Bible is getting a partial focus of our fullest attention. We must think about driving. We would be disobedient to God if we were to put ourselves or others at risk by not paying any attention to the road or the cars or the signs.
If the material is at your level (so you're not straining), and you can see transcriptions of what's being said (so there's help when you're uncertain), then you can keep listening to the audio at full speed.
You might also like my books of short stories for beginners and intermediate learners, which have audio versions available. (Although just be aware that this is primarily written material, so is more suitable for general learning that listening practice per se.)
This is my first time developing a course in Articulate 360. When I first developed the course, I decided to add some audio files (narration of select text) so that learners would have the option of reading or listening. My goal was to be accommodating to different learning styles. However, because I also want to restrict navigation, the audio files are no longer optional. Is there a way to change that? Thanks!
Even when setting the Navigation Mode to Restricted, the Audio blocks are still optional -- learners aren't required to listen to them before navigating the next lesson. Learners are required to take lessons in order.
Do you have a Continue block after your Audio block, or at the end of the lesson? If you have set the Continue block to Complete Block Directly Above or Complete All Blocks Above, then the learner will be required to listen to the audio before going to the next section or lesson.
Late to the party - but here's what I do: I put the audio on a layer. The player's navigation restrictions only look at the main slide. The audio on the layer can either 1) audio play so everyone hears it (but it doesn't keep the next button from unlocking) or 2) sometimes I add a "play" button (on the layer w/the audio) so they can choose to listen to the audio. Either way, the next button restriction ends when the timeline ends on the main layer.
Thanks for clarifying that Angelo. I was searching for Storyline and this question popped up - and didn't look at the header to see which program the question was about. I didn't know we could restrict the navigation in Rise based on completing the audio (we've only used audio as an option in there so far) so will look into that for the future.
Is it possible to listen to a podcast or tunes or other audio like a radio app, while doing something else, like playing a game which would normally have audio priority? Often I'd rather hear something other than repetitive gamesounds or a website's audio. Maybe there's a utility app for this that I'm not aware of? The preferences for various apps don't seem to have anything. I have iPad Air.
No. Something else is at play here. I can listen to iTunes while browsing with Safari but when I navigate to, say, a youtube page, iTunes will pause. iTunes will play over most games whether the games' audio is muted by the system or by the apps' own preference, or not mutrd at all, but there are some games that act like the youtube page and iTunes is paused when the game opens. Something in the way the game is written. I guess I will need to plug my ears into a separate device to get around this.
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