On Saturday 31 July 2010 20:44:58 Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> A friend of mine was telling me how he listens to his speech
> podcasts  on his iPod at faster than natural playback speeds.  I'd
> like to do this with an audio file player which can do the same on
> Linux.  Which one(s) should I investigate?  Of course, I want the
> original pitch at any playback speed.

Another option is playitslowly:

 http://29a.ch/playitslowly/

Cheers! Pablo