Listen to This Story: PINCHED Lets You Choose Obinna or Ngozi as Your Narrator and Set the Speed
A PINCHED article does not have to be read on a screen. Here is how the listen control works, who your narrator options are, and why the timing fits, with Spotify opening audiobooks in Nigeria this week.
Choose your narrator
In short
PINCHED articles can be heard as well as read. The "Listen to this story" control lets you choose a narrator, Obinna or Ngozi, and a playback speed of 1x, 1.25x or 1.5x.
- Desk:
- tech
- Format:
- article
- Author:
- Kenneth Onyebuchi
PINCHED articles carry a "Listen to this story" control, so a story can be heard instead of read. You choose a narrator, Obinna or Ngozi, and set the playback speed to 1x, 1.25x or 1.5x. The idea has fresh company. Spotify opened audiobooks in Nigeria on 14th October with a ₦2,300 monthly add-on for 15 hours of listening, while the listen control on PINCHED sits on the article page itself.
How to Listen to a PINCHED Story
Open any article and look for the "Listen to this story" heading. Under it you will find the two choices that shape what you hear:
Narrator: pick Obinna or Ngozi under "Choose your narrator".
Speed: pick 1x, 1.25x or 1.5x.
The listen control on a PINCHED article page
Two Narrators and Three Speeds
The two voices give you a choice of how a story sounds before it starts, and you can change your mind on the next article. Speed does the rest. At 1x a ten-minute read takes ten minutes. At 1.25x it takes eight. At 1.5x it takes about six minutes and forty seconds. A longer feature that you would put off reading can fit into a walk to the bus stop, a drive, or the time it takes to cook.
Why Audio Is Having a Moment
Listening is getting attention well beyond PINCHED. Spotify's Nigerian audiobook launch comes with a ₦2,300 monthly add-on for 15 hours, which works out to about ₦153 for each hour, a figure PINCHED worked out in its own breakdown of the launch. BusinessDay asks whether Nigerians will pay for a separate audio subscription on top of data and the other things they already buy.
PINCHED's answer is to keep listening inside the article itself. Its pricing page describes the Free plan as "Listening on PINCHED", with unlimited free articles, audio and video.
Where Creators Fit In
A listener who enjoys a creator's work can also back them directly through Give a Pinch, where fans support a creator with a one-time or monthly pinch and the split is 90% to the creator and 10% to PINCHED.
For how fan support sits alongside products, tickets and brand deals in a creator's income, the full income mix lays it out.
Frequently Asked Questions
What Is the "Listen to This Story" Control on PINCHED?
It is the audio control on a PINCHED article page. It lets you hear the story read aloud instead of reading it, with a choice of narrator and playback speed.
Who Are the Narrators on PINCHED?
PINCHED offers two narrators, Obinna and Ngozi. You choose between them under "Choose your narrator" on the article page.
What Speeds Can I Listen At?
1x, 1.25x and 1.5x.
Does Spotify Have Audiobooks in Nigeria?
Yes. Spotify opened audiobooks in Nigeria on 14th October, with an Audiobooks+ add-on at ₦2,300 a month that includes 15 hours of listening.
- PINCHED
- listen to articles
- audio narration
- Obinna
- Ngozi
- audiobooks Nigeria
- listen on the go
- creator platform Africa
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Frequently asked
- What is “Listen to This Story: PINCHED Lets You Choose Obinna or Ngozi as Your Narrator and Set the Speed” about?
- A PINCHED article does not have to be read on a screen. Here is how the listen control works, who your narrator options are, and why the timing fits, with Spotify opening audiobooks in Nigeria this week.
- Who covers tech on PINCHED?
- Kenneth Onyebuchi reports this piece for the PINCHED tech desk.
- Where can I read “Listen to This Story: PINCHED Lets You Choose Obinna or Ngozi as Your Narrator and Set the Speed”?
- Read it in full at https://staypinched.site/read/to-pinched-stories-obinna-ngozi-narrators.
