[rizzin]

>-I wish that the progress bar allow more control of when to jump.

Shift + Arrow - jump 5 seconds

For cases like yours this is what I use, and usually it gives enough control in the context of a movie.

https://wiki.videolan.org/QtHotkeys/

[FabHK]

VLC has very short, short, medium, and long jumps. Go to the preferences to set your own hotkeys to whatever works (I have [ and ] for very short jumps, it's perfect for the use case you describe, when you just want to hear a phrase again).

(Note that apparently you need to restart VLC for the changes to take effect.)