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I thought about making an app in the same vein, but for a specific purpose: recording lectures. However, I think it'd be useful in meetings. The idea was to ha

by kmax12 13y ago

I thought about making an app in the same vein, but for a specific purpose: recording lectures. However, I think it'd be useful in meetings. The idea was to have the ability to take a photo and associate it with the time you took it. This would come in handy when the audio is referring to a specific powerpoint slide, whiteboard drawing, etc. I think if you add this in, you could have a killer app for college kids to record lectures for later use.

nileshtrivedi 13y ago
> take a photo and associate it with the time you took it Otherwise known as a "video". :)
- kmax12 13y ago
  It is very different from video, in my mind. Video places emphasis on visuals, where for many lectures or meetings the audio is where most of the content is. By only talking photos or short videos at the points in time where the visuals are important you cut down on a lot of excess information that will need to be searched through later. In a way, the photo are essentially bookmarks into your audio. If I was looking back on a hour lecture that had 15 slides, it'd be much easier to tap the photo of the relevant slide and listen to surrounding audio rather than scrub through a hour of video to find it. Additionally, taking video requires being able to position my phone properly for the entire duration of recording. I don't know how my profesor's would respond to me setting up a mini tripod during lecture. I do know they don't care if i snap a picture of a slide or whiteboard every once in a while. Finally, photos capture the content in higher quality then videos can, which often is very important.
- anigbrowl 13y ago
  No. A video consists of 15-30 pictures per second, which is colossally wasteful of bandwidth when all you want is to record audio and one picture.
gtank 13y ago
That's a good suggestion! Our idea here is to add useful context to what would otherwise be an unnavigable pile of audio.

by kmax12 13y ago

nileshtrivedi 13y ago

> take a photo and associate it with the time you took it Otherwise known as a "video". :)

kmax12 13y ago
It is very different from video, in my mind. Video places emphasis on visuals, where for many lectures or meetings the audio is where most of the content is. By only talking photos or short videos at the points in time where the visuals are important you cut down on a lot of excess information that will need to be searched through later. In a way, the photo are essentially bookmarks into your audio. If I was looking back on a hour lecture that had 15 slides, it'd be much easier to tap the photo of the relevant slide and listen to surrounding audio rather than scrub through a hour of video to find it. Additionally, taking video requires being able to position my phone properly for the entire duration of recording. I don't know how my profesor's would respond to me setting up a mini tripod during lecture. I do know they don't care if i snap a picture of a slide or whiteboard every once in a while. Finally, photos capture the content in higher quality then videos can, which often is very important.
anigbrowl 13y ago
No. A video consists of 15-30 pictures per second, which is colossally wasteful of bandwidth when all you want is to record audio and one picture.

gtank 13y ago

That's a good suggestion! Our idea here is to add useful context to what would otherwise be an unnavigable pile of audio.