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I'm wondering if Slack will ever implement something like Sococo or teamspeak's always-on voice chat. If you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you
by pbw 10y ago
I'm wondering if Slack will ever implement something like Sococo or teamspeak's always-on voice chat. If you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you are in the channel your speakers are always-on. Someone can speak to you without dialing and without you answering. They can simply say "Hey Fred..." and start talking.
I have not worked with these, but did try Sococo briefly. The way this would work in slack is you could opt-in to voice on a certain channel for collaboration intensive work. Might be a horrible idea I'm not sure.
I guess you could use /call this way? Hmmm... didn't think of that.
- jrgifford 10y agoI've used TeamSpeak for that at an old job. We used it for pairing and team meetings. We couldn't all fit in the office at the same time (10 people, 100 square feet w/desks wasn't happening), so we had team meetings over TS. Was great. Would definitely do it again.
- scotty79 10y agoWhat prevented multiple people starting to talk at the same time during team meetings?
- yannyu 10y agoDiscord is a bit like Slack but focused on voice chat for the gaming community. It has voice rooms that work as you describe. https://discordapp.com/ https://discordapp.com/
- jeeva 10y ago> a bit like Slack The UX and general usage is so similar (in my eyes), I actually assumed it was a spinoff from the same company for a good while.
- jodrellblank 10y agoIf you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you are in the channel your speakers are always-on. Like every voice-chat enabled computer game since the 90s; IRC style open channels, but audio. Mumble is one free, encrypted (I think), cross platform one.