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You can add all kinds of fancy stuff, you can improve the design and usability of the UI's but here's a big important problem waiting to be solved: audio qualit
by mojuba 6y ago
You can add all kinds of fancy stuff, you can improve the design and usability of the UI's but here's a big important problem waiting to be solved: audio quality and graceful degrading of the quality when needed.
At the end of the day we want to be heard in the first place. Nothing is more irritating than someone's (or your own) poor connection that makes people ask each other to repeat, watch participants freeze, wait, waste time trying to reconnect etc. etc.
Can it be solved? Degrade the quality, compress more but deliver the human speech as nicely as possible, on time. I feel not all options have been tried in this area yet.
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoThere has to be something these companies are doing wrong. When I use discord, even while on mobile data and walking around, the audio quality is flawless (or as good as the mic) Why is it that ms teams and the rest end up sounding worse than AM radio?
- mojuba 6y agoAudio is hard, then audio streaming adds anohter layer of complexity. Even a relatively trivial problem of audio feedback hasn't been solved in all software yet - occasionally you hear echoes in some of them (Skype, WhatsApp?), or otherwise the peer is interrupted when you speak making talking simultaneously imposslbe and the whole experience irritatingly poor. It all seems like a downgrade from the classical telephony where you didn't have those problems.