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juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

juwo wrote: post #6
jkush wrote: post #5

One big issue is that the demo I downloaded had some audio pre installed with it. Just a thought, but using audio from a speech given by a man with cerebral palsey is not the best choice for a demo. It was very unclear and hard to see what it was that your software was accomplishing.

Thanks for being the first public to drive it!. Try the BBC demo. it is video - or pretty American Idol Katharine McPhee.

For the BBC demo page, how about isolating the clip you want to show, perhaps surrounded by whitespace, but with a juwo page header? (i.e., make it clear this page still belongs in the juwo site, and you've just sampled a small part of the BBC page)

People with ADD like me will start reading the news ticker or some of the other stories (seriously, I had to back up twice to figure out what I supposed to click on!).

Also, for people not running XP and using Java plugins in their browser (I'm one of them!) can you prepare a version that will still convey what the demo does?

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

juwo wrote: post #8
veritas wrote: post #3

To be brutally honest: color scheme + horizontal scrolling + too much text + general design = I ran off before learning too much about what Juwo does. Please redesign! Also try to condense what Juwo is trying to do into a short paragraph. So far, all I can gather by a quick 10 sec browse is that it has something to do with recording/playing back audio, table of contents for audio etc. Leave the demos, instructions, e…

Thanks for being the first public to drive it!. I read that people dont want to click, but scrolling is ok - I thought that was the lecture at startup school? (I saw a breief note on it here on this site) the condensation is at the diagrams on the right.

I read that people dont want to click, but scrolling is ok

I wasn't at the most recent Startup School, but in general, people don't mind scrolling down; scrolling horizontally is a headache.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

jkush wrote: post #4
veritas wrote: post #3

To be brutally honest: color scheme + horizontal scrolling + too much text + general design = I ran off before learning too much about what Juwo does. Please redesign! Also try to condense what Juwo is trying to do into a short paragraph. So far, all I can gather by a quick 10 sec browse is that it has something to do with recording/playing back audio, table of contents for audio etc. Leave the demos, instructions, e…

I agree with veritas. Try to tell us in a few sentences what juwo is all about.

Based on a comment in another YC news post, I thought juwo was a tool for automatically transcribing audio to text (is that correct?).

If so, then why not just say that; the demos can be simplified to be the raw audio/video clip with the text, as transcribed by juwo next to/underneath the clips.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by create_account »

davidw wrote: post #7

http://juwo.com/company.html "Juwo LLC was founded by Anil Philip in December 2004, and is based in Olathe, Kansas. We are" ... 'we' ? Also, the religious stuff probably belongs elsewhere, on your own home page, for instance.

It's not important, IMHO.

It could be single founder + employees (but unlikely given the site design) or just him.

But he could always say he's using the royal we.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by juwo »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #11
juwo wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for being the first public to drive it!. Try the BBC demo. it is video - or pretty American Idol Katharine McPhee.

For the BBC demo page, how about isolating the clip you want to show, perhaps surrounded by whitespace, but with a juwo page header? (i.e., make it clear this page still belongs in the juwo site, and you've just sampled a small part of the BBC page) People with ADD like me will start reading the news ticker or some of the other stories (seriously, I had to back up twice to figure out what I supposed to click on!). Al…

Do you mean, show the media player in the browser?

Or should I draw the link for the demo in large font?

Actually, juwo is great for people with ADD. you can sit in a class and record lectures - and then review only the important parts.

I have some kind of ADD myself - and use juwo in important meetings.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by wammin »

Too many words! This is my most common criticism for evaluating an interface. If you need so many words on the home page to describe how to do something or what it is, then it's not easy enough. Remember you only have about 20 seconds of somebody's attention before they decide to click away. I got lost pretty quick (and I'm actually pretty smart).

The crap about Jesus on the about page turned me off, too. You're welcome to your religious beliefs, but keep them on your blog or someplace more appropriate.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by juwo »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #13
jkush wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with veritas. Try to tell us in a few sentences what juwo is all about.

Based on a comment in another YC news post, I thought juwo was a tool for automatically transcribing audio to text (is that correct?). If so, then why not just say that; the demos can be simplified to be the raw audio/video clip with the text, as transcribed by juwo next to/underneath the clips.

no, that's not correct. It does not transcribe automatically. however the labels can have functionality attached. for example, to run the speech recognizer you have installed on your computer, on a voice note.

Re: juwo beta is released (at last!). Please use it and help improve it!

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Post by dpapathanasiou »

juwo wrote: post #15
dpapathanasiou wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For the BBC demo page, how about isolating the clip you want to show, perhaps surrounded by whitespace, but with a juwo page header? (i.e., make it clear this page still belongs in the juwo site, and you've just sampled a small part of the BBC page) People with ADD like me will start reading the news ticker or some of the other stories (seriously, I had to back up twice to figure out what I supposed to click on!). Al…

Do you mean, show the media player in the browser? Or should I draw the link for the demo in large font? Actually, juwo is great for people with ADD. you can sit in a class and record lectures - and then review only the important parts. I have some kind of ADD myself - and use juwo in important meetings.

Basically, lose everything from the BBC page except the href to the clip you want to show and put it inside a "juwo" page, consistent with everything else on your site.

For a while there, I thought I was at bbcnews.com and I started reading all these extraneous links and photos.

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