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Highlighting for audio listeners

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design concept

Dear Blinkiest

I have recently subscribed to your service. You provide me with a quick way to get a glimpse of…

Books who have been stuck on my to read list for ages

  • A quick revist of books
  • A quick way to hear about subjects outside my normal intrests
  • A trailer for books I will end up reading

However! As a listener I have a hard time saving the sections I find interesting enough that I would like to revist them.

Please make a highligt function for audio blinks! I even have an idea to how it might be done.

Double tap for highligt #

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Many headsets do have a play/pause and volume up and down. Double tapping on the play/pause is normally mapped to skip/next. But could one of the volume controls be used for highligting? ( And if the buttons doens’t work. Maybe have me shake my phone. Think outside the screen )

The time-consuming part #

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Knowing where the user is the text. Similiar to subtitles the text needs to be match with the timestamp. But I would settle for paragraph highligts. It doesn’t need to be on a sentence level. ( Shouldn’t AI be able to match the text up against the audio in 2021? )

Design for failure #

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No matter how good you are in you end. I will most certainly double-tap that volume button a bit late sometimes. So design for failure and incorporate and easy edit.

Thats it! Tried to keep it short like you like it.

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