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This was a great read, and impressively dense with graphs and historical survey information about all media markets. I happen to have been wondering just today

by wcarss 6y ago

This was a great read, and impressively dense with graphs and historical survey information about all media markets. I happen to have been wondering just today what led to the rise of a phenomenon like the Beatles at just that point in time, and whether it was a specific technology, and then this answered it: portable transistor radios! I'm presently building heysync[1], an app to bring asynchronous audio to work chat, and I thought there might be more about remote work and audio communications in here, but it made a compelling point that the largest visible motion is in entertainment audio today. At least it did note at the end that entertainment isn't the whole audio market ;P 1 - https://heysync.chat https://heysync.chat

rektide 6y ago
fwiw I am desperate to asynchronize our stand-ups (which have become far too long brain dumps & q&a sessions, to very few party's benefit). good luck with your app.
- nine_k 6y ago
  Off-topic, but long standups just means you're doing it wrong; talk to the manager or scrum master, quote classic texts, try to keep everyone's reports to two sentences. BTW doesn't Telegram have a satisfactory push-to-talk button that sends audio clips asynchronously?
  - rektide 6y ago
    "let's hang around after standup g discuss" happens some but since we have so few other contact points mostly we just let each other brain dump at standup. even if we did let some pepe go, I still feel like we would just shuffle around how & where we synchronously waste time. I really want to retain the sense of human contact of voice & often video, but in a way that we can thread, reply to async, & come back to latter, none of which would be easy & convenient with our current predominantly synchronous systems. signal has a decent voice-message feature. weirdly from what I can tell there's no way to preview your message before sending it? blah. also, weird, but I don't want to be using signal & other what feel like "personal" communication tech with my coworkers.
    - wcarss 6y ago
      > I really want to retain the sense of human contact of voice & often video, but in a way that we can thread, reply to async, & come back to latter, none of which would be easy & convenient with our current predominantly synchronous systems. Yes! That is exactly the thing we need, and it's unbelievable that it doesn't already exist. I have heard that Slack is working on some stuff in this area too (akin to in-channel snapchat stories, I think?), and as long as we end up with better tools somewhere, I'll be happy.
  - wcarss 6y ago
    > doesn't Telegram have a satisfactory push-to-talk button that sends audio clips asynchronously? Telegram does let you send audio! When I first started building heysync I was quite surprised to find out that WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram/iMessage all support basic audio messages decently, but I didn't know anyone who used them. Heysync is a little different in that it sends automatic transcriptions alongside its audio snippets, to let you either read or listen at your leisure, and it puts audio messages right out in front in the app. As rektide mentioned, most of those apps miss key features, like not being able to preview a message if you want to, and then they also mentioned that using 'personal' communication tech with coworkers isn't everyone's cup of tea. Heysync is work oriented by being roughly IRC or slack-alike shaped in its features, i.e. channels, DMs, markdown+syntax highlighting, and so on. I hope this isn't excessively self-promotional! I'm pretty excited about this whole area. (Also, the downvote's not me; I thought your suggestion and question were quite fair.)
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foxrain 6y ago
This would be cool!

by wcarss 6y ago

rektide 6y ago

fwiw I am desperate to asynchronize our stand-ups (which have become far too long brain dumps & q&a sessions, to very few party's benefit). good luck with your app.

nine_k 6y ago
Off-topic, but long standups just means you're doing it wrong; talk to the manager or scrum master, quote classic texts, try to keep everyone's reports to two sentences. BTW doesn't Telegram have a satisfactory push-to-talk button that sends audio clips asynchronously?
- rektide 6y ago
  "let's hang around after standup g discuss" happens some but since we have so few other contact points mostly we just let each other brain dump at standup. even if we did let some pepe go, I still feel like we would just shuffle around how & where we synchronously waste time. I really want to retain the sense of human contact of voice & often video, but in a way that we can thread, reply to async, & come back to latter, none of which would be easy & convenient with our current predominantly synchronous systems. signal has a decent voice-message feature. weirdly from what I can tell there's no way to preview your message before sending it? blah. also, weird, but I don't want to be using signal & other what feel like "personal" communication tech with my coworkers.
  - wcarss 6y ago
    > I really want to retain the sense of human contact of voice & often video, but in a way that we can thread, reply to async, & come back to latter, none of which would be easy & convenient with our current predominantly synchronous systems. Yes! That is exactly the thing we need, and it's unbelievable that it doesn't already exist. I have heard that Slack is working on some stuff in this area too (akin to in-channel snapchat stories, I think?), and as long as we end up with better tools somewhere, I'll be happy.
- wcarss 6y ago
  > doesn't Telegram have a satisfactory push-to-talk button that sends audio clips asynchronously? Telegram does let you send audio! When I first started building heysync I was quite surprised to find out that WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram/iMessage all support basic audio messages decently, but I didn't know anyone who used them. Heysync is a little different in that it sends automatic transcriptions alongside its audio snippets, to let you either read or listen at your leisure, and it puts audio messages right out in front in the app. As rektide mentioned, most of those apps miss key features, like not being able to preview a message if you want to, and then they also mentioned that using 'personal' communication tech with coworkers isn't everyone's cup of tea. Heysync is work oriented by being roughly IRC or slack-alike shaped in its features, i.e. channels, DMs, markdown+syntax highlighting, and so on. I hope this isn't excessively self-promotional! I'm pretty excited about this whole area. (Also, the downvote's not me; I thought your suggestion and question were quite fair.)
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foxrain 6y ago

This would be cool!