Speed, Repeat, or Auto-advance: Replay a Phrase Without Losing Your Place

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These three controls solve different problems. Speed changes how fast the current clip plays. Repeat plays that clip again. In Reels, Auto-advance decides when to leave the current Reel and move to the next one.

A clip is a short excerpt from a film or TV show. One Reel contains several clips with the same phrase or word, so replaying a clip and moving to the next Reel are separate actions.

Slow down one difficult clip

Open Playphrase.me and search for how long are you going to be staying. Play one of the clips. If the words run together, choose Speed:

• 1.0x — normal speed;
• 0.75x — a moderate slowdown;
• 0.5x — a stronger slowdown.

On desktop, right-click the video to open these options. In Reels, a separate round button below the video also changes the speed.

Repeat the same clip, not the whole set

Now choose Repeat. The menu has four options:

• x1 — play the clip once;
• x3 — play it three times;
• x10 — play it ten times;
• ∞ — keep repeating until you stop playback or change the setting.

You can add a short silence between repeats. Open Settings, find Pause Between Repeats, and choose 0.5 sec or 1 sec. With Off, the next repeat starts immediately. This setting changes only the pause, not the number of repeats or the order of the results.

Choose when Reels moves on

The selector at the bottom of Reels shows Manual by default. It controls Auto-advance:

• Manual — Reels does not move to the next Reel automatically; clips within the current Reel keep playing;
• 5 videos, 10 videos, or 30 videos — move to the next Reel after that many clips;
• 30 sec or 1 min — move to the next Reel after the selected playback time.

Here, videos means clips inside the current Reel. It does not mean five or ten new phrases. To keep your place on the current phrase, leave Manual selected and move to the next Reel yourself when you are ready.