Voice Post

[kevin_standlee]

Comments

[lindadee.livejournal.com]

I was able to hear it, but I hope you don't this doesn't become a habit for people. I generally read LJ at work, and since voice takes more bandwidth, I would hate for the privilege to be revoked. My company is cracking down on Pandora when they discovered how much bandwidth was being devoted to that. Different scale, same concept.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I don't expect it to be a regular thing. I'm thinking of how I can may brief "here I am" posts when I'm away from internet connections but still have telephone connections. In particular if I'm on a train for three or four days, I won't be able to post anything, but at least when stopped in larger cities -- cell phones don't reach everywhere the trains run -- I can at least say, "Hello, Denver."

[bovil.livejournal.com]

It's heavily compressed audio (since there's not that much data in a voice call in the first place), so it's not a real bandwidth suck.

It's also not an unlimited service. I think, as a permanent account holder, that I get 20 voice posts a month.

I used to use it to post urgent status when I only had a phone on me. I think I've used it maybe 5 times since I activated. That's a common pattern for most folks.

Now I've got a BlackBerry, and can post using the mobile web interface.

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Since it's auto-transcribed, bandwidth shouldn't be a problem, as the audio doesn't download until you press the play button.

If the name at the beginning is actually Paul, then the auto-transcription can make out speech better than I can.

If you listen to this and think, "That doesn't sound much like me," actually it doesn't. I wouldn't have recognized it as your voice.

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

The transcription did not get the first two words right -- I said nothing about a "Paul" and have now gone back and corrected it -- but most of the rest of it was pretty good. I think I would have to learn how to talk to the computer to optimize auto-transcription.

[chocolatescifi.livejournal.com]

It works.