Voice?

Bromo Ivory · Post by **Bromo Ivory** » Fri May 25, 2007 9:15 am

I just went ahead and in a resignation to the "Augmentationist" trends, ordered my headsets. Thankfully for me, the voice will match the avatar. (Though when exploring, there is so much empty in SL for me, this is a theoretical point of contention)

Some thoughts:
* How will we remain inclusive with so many different native languages? (And I might be able to bumble through a conversation in text in another language, using some web lookups and maybe Babbler if we want a couple of laughs, but voice? no way!)

*Will CDS remain 'text only' or go to voice. Would we go right away, or after some due consideration? [And are we one of the regions where voice is not available at first?]

*If we went voice, how would we record our meetings and the discussion?

[I may try to float a proposed law regarding this, but have no idea how to get started!]

Dnate Mars · Post by **Dnate Mars** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:46 am

I don't think we will have much of a choice in this matter. My understanding is that class 4 sim (which both of them currently are) will not be able to have voice after the "beta" period of time.

I think that all offical meetings will be text only. It is the only way I can see that we make sure to not exclude anyone that doesn't want to use voice for whatever reasons. Plus we can then have a nice transcript of what was said.

As a personal choice, I am not planning on using voice. I am just not a big fan of it. But if people want to use it in our sims, and it doesn't cost us anything more, I would hope we would enable it.

Bromo Ivory · Post by **Bromo Ivory** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:48 am

[quote="Dnate Mars":d7hd74a7]As a personal choice, I am not planning on using voice. I am just not a big fan of it. But if people want to use it in our sims, and it doesn't cost us anything more, I would hope we would enable it.[/quote:d7hd74a7]

I am getting some headsets with the idea of trying it out. But it could be a hindrance, I think, to a lot of communication.

If I find I am not using it much for SL - I *have* always wanted to try out Skype!

Aliasi Stonebender · Post by **Aliasi Stonebender** » Sat May 26, 2007 1:13 am

One problem with voice, online, is it tends to make a conversation dominated by one or two strong speakers. Text allows a multithreaded conversation with multiple participants.