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Slightly offtopic : As a remote engineer, I wonder if half-duplex voice (kind of like a CB radio) would be superior for communication vs typing everything? E.g
by aantix 7y ago
Slightly offtopic : As a remote engineer, I wonder if half-duplex voice (kind of like a CB radio) would be superior for communication vs typing everything?
E.g. when I have an idea, I just talk, that comment is recorded and made available to the chat room.
I'd like to get back some of the nuance of language that just isn't possible with text.
There'd have to be some easy way of playing back the voice snippets in order that were posted to the chat room.
Maybe Discord is superior to Slack for this.. I've never used it.
- davidivadavid 7y agoInteresting to explore, but probably not as good for search/copy pasting, etc. (or it needs to come with automated transcription).
- dudul 7y agoI think it's a terrible idea. Writing things down, is the first step towards really thinking it through, making sure it makes sense, etc.
- aantix 7y agoTrue, when in isolation. I'm thinking more of collaboration - when the solution isn't necessarily known and there's a lot of back and forth.
- e4325f 7y agoThis is very common on WeChat, from what I can tell most people communicate with voice snippets.
- jvagner 7y agoUsed to really like full-duplex voice in Nextel phones eons ago.. it was good for initiation conversations, which would then pull people into whatever chat we needed at the time. Not sure we'd use it the same now, but we were running our own servers at the time, things weren't quite stable yet, and some of us were frequently out of the office. I've wanted to build a proper calling-tree & follow client for Pagerduty (or, own platform) because there's still a need for non-technical notifications in an org where people just won't visit a status page... or when sales/tech support need to know sooner, rather than later, than an environment is suddenly down.
- VectorLock 7y agoIt takes much longer to listen to an audio recording than it does to read a sentence. And in certain cases, compose one.
- aantix 7y agoAgree, because the audio is richer. A slight pause, a 'hmmmm', a chuckle, can infer the statement as a question, or at least give a hint as how confident the statement is, instead of a proclamation. Otherwise, without inflection, every sentence can read as a definitive statement. Zero nuance, and we end up with places like Twitter. It's awful for discourse.
- VectorLock 7y agoNuance is great and all but when you're deal with a lot of information you want to convey information as clearly and unambiguously as possible. Audio just doesn't have the information bandwidth that writing does.
- aantix 7y agoHow so? What can be said with writing can also be said with speech. But with speech, you also have verbal queues, pauses, tone, inflection, that implies so much more.
- VectorLock 7y agoBecause you can read a sentence much quicker than you can listen to an audio clip of that same sentence. The inflections don't convey as much unambiguous information as actual words. Was that sigh because someone was tired, frustrated, or just needed to take a breath?
- vel0city 7y agoDiscord's voice features are only really live and full duplex. Think more like party line / conference bridge than sending recorded snippets. There also isn't a built-in way to record such voice communications. That said, there are many other chat platforms which either support voice snippets in conversations (Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Signal) or even are focused on sending voice snippets (Voxer, Viber).