Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.
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#22I've seen this before and still can't figure out if it's an ad or a Godspeed You Black Emperor song.
I first thought of this song: https://youtu.be/VXPoJAyeF8k?t=1m22s
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Yes, especially at large, non-technical companies. Technically, we are using WebEx, but most remote folks are dialing in to a phone number versus using audio on their laptop. I'm in at least one meeting a day that has dial in people.
At large technical companies as well unfortunately. It’s insane. never knowing who is talking, who is on the line. And that’s not talking about audio quality
Yep. I work for a massive integrator – American* – and we still use the good old dial-in.
We tried 'Skype for Business' but as well as sounding like something you'd catch if you hung out at the bus station, the call quality was atrocious.
*Although we are in Australia.
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#24Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.
Even with Skype or hangout, someone at home always has a bandwidth issue so no-cam, also constant echo issues and typing sound almost triggers PTSD for me.
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#25Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.
To me this is just conference call by another name, with some nice extra features like video and screensharing. We still have people dialing in from mobile, cars, using a variety of devices, forgetting to mute/unmute, having background noise, bad connections, putting the conference mic in a bad location.
I remember those traditional conference phones usually having really good microphone quality and noise-reduction. You still have to invest in that gear with hangouts/Zoom/others.
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#26I could watch this for hours.
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#27Do people still do conference calls nowadays? Using Hangouts has kind of eliminated the conference call problem for me. Audio quality is great, you can see who is speaking or know who wants to speak if the mute icon disappears.
Even with Skype or hangout, someone at home always has a bandwidth issue so no-cam, also constant echo issues and typing sound almost triggers PTSD for me.
Invariably, the higher the company status of the attendee, the higher the likelihood they will have problems.
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#28I've seen this before and still can't figure out if it's an ad or a Godspeed You Black Emperor song.
Not enough guitars for Godspeed, I reckon, but it definitely deserves a place alongside "Telephone and Rubber Band" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ4pve5Mkc) and "Opus Number 1" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqB8v14U_zs). Any other good telephone related tracks?
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#29Almost real, it's just missing loud audio feedback loops.
And people starting to speak at the same time and stopping multiple times due to a few seconds of lag