Wired: How to Make Podcasts Better for People With Hearing Loss

[kestrell]

Kes: omigosh the ambient thing yes! The Shirley Jackson Awards video had this background music that was driving me mad, *quite* mad, because every time it started up it made it difficult for me to sift through to what the person was saying, and it added nothing to the content. Music before or after the person was speaking would have been fine, but having music competing with the person speaking is a poor design choice.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-make-podcasts-better-for-people-with-hearing-loss/

Comments

[dewline]

Paywalls drive me closer to incurable and toxic forms of madness these days. It's a trivial irritant, but the instances are adding up.

That aside, your point about music competing with the actual content of any podcast - audio or video - that's not devoted to music is well taken.