Marking as solved! The solution is a tad cumbersome (can’t directly control in-browser), but it comes with a bonus I didn’t even think to ask for (mp3 files that I can save to my phone and listen to in the car!).

Using the extension Video Download Helper, I can yoink the sound files right off the website. I’ve got mp3’s set to open with Firefox, so when I open one it launches in its own tab, where I can use the extension Video Speed Controller to manipulate the playback speed; click back to the original ATI tab and read along.

Thanks for the help, all!!!

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Just started nursing school (fuck yeah!!) and it’s looking like a lot of our material is via the website https://www.atitesting.com/ (couldn’t find any examples of the audio feature that don’t require you to be logged in).

It’s basically a textbook, broken down into modules, and click through them as instructed. There’s a “play audio” feature that provides audio of the wall of text, which is great! …except that whoever made the recordings sounds like the fucking sloth from Zootopia.

Occasionally there’re videos too, which also don’t have built-in playback speed options, but I found an HTML5 video speed controller extension for Firefox that works a charm on those; I’ve tried about 10 similar extensions trying to hit the text audio, but it remains stuck on sloth.

I also tried a program called Cheat Engine - used that about 50,000 years ago to skip ads on YouTube when YouTube was first infected with its ad disease: set the runspeed of Firefox to like 100x and the ad would be finished in about half a second. Doesn’t work anymore for ads, and didn’t work on ATI’s audio either.

Not sure what else to try, but there aren’t enough hours in a day to listen to the assigned material at 1x, so if you’ve got a fix, you’re my hero!

Thanks all!!

  • SteveTechEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    You might be able to right click and inspect element it, make sure there’s an audio element and that it’s selected, then type something like $0.playbackRate = 2.0 into the console.

    Or when I get home I could probably write a simple tampermonkey script that does that on all audio elements when enabled.

    • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Don’t sweat it - got a working solution! Details added to OP.

      …unless you’re bored and want to do it anyway, in which case I’m down to give it a shot! Although be aware that my tech skills are among the bottom 1% of the lemmy userbase, so I’ll probably need an adult to hold my hand through things like scripts… case in point: I have no idea what tampermonkey is. xD

      • SteveTechEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Oh, no worries!

        If you were wondering tampermonkey is just a plugin that injects scripts into websites. But thinking about it more, I’m not sure my method would’ve worked anyway.