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p/skip-silenceSkip silence in educational videos you watch online
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Bennett

Skip Silence - Skip silence in educational videos you watch online

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"Skip Silence" is a browser extension that allows you to automatically skip parts of a video that are silent.
It is highly inspired by CaryKH's automatic on-the-fly video editing tool.

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Bennett
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"Skip Silence" is a browser extension that allows you to automatically skip parts of a video that are silent. It is highly inspired by CaryKH's automatic on-the-fly video editing tool:
Whenever the extension detects that the video is currently silent, it will speed up the video to save you time. This can be very useful when watching lecture videos. The extension can be installed on chrome and chromium browsers. Unfortunately, there is currently a bug in Firefox that prevents the extension from working there - sorry Firefox users!
Shagun Kazan
Ironically, I can't hear any sound in the video demonstrating use of your extension. I think it would be really helpful, as my first intention is to judge whether speeding up the silence would be jarring when listening to educational content.
Bennett
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@shagun_kazan Thank you for your feedback. I just replaced the video with one that contains sound - the original video was just the gif that can be seen in the repository.
Chris Dancy
Silence serves a purpose. It's not something that's due to a lack of efficiency.
Bennett
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@chrisdancy1 I do understand your point and also think that silence often serves a purpose, but on some educational videos there can be very long periods of silence in which the lecturer writes something on the board. Writing is often a very slow task to watch and can also easily be understood when sped up a little - especially because it is often additionally explained afterwards or beforehand. I just find myself drifting off from the subject a little when lecturers take a very long time to write things down. If you watch the demo video above you can see that no important silence pauses are skipped - "Skip Silence" will only skip longer pauses - but rather only longer writing pauses and when he is walking without talking is skipped.
Armand
This would be cool for creators or even a plug-in with something like LOOM
Kim Salmi
Very nice! Congrats on the launch 🚀