Unfortunately, PocketCast isn&#x27;t very aggressive about clipping short pauses in speech, probably because it would tend to mangle things unless done carefully.  (I suspect it would require a lot more software sophistication with human speech to appreciably change the average playback speed.)  It cut out less than a second over the first few minutes of a conversation I used as an example, so it essentially does nothing.<p>Thanks for the suggestion, though.  I never tried Overcast since I&#x27;m on an android, but I suspect it&#x27;s similar to Pocketcast.<p>I really wants something that ups the average speed to ~2.5 while maintaining intelligibility.