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Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by Sebguer » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 9:59 PM UTC

lobster_johnson wrote: post #47

aluminussoma wrote: post #14

Has anyone else noticed how pristine the audio quality of a Slack call sounds? I wonder how they optimized it. My company's voip, and Lync, and Skype all fail to deliver the same kind of call quality. I've only noticed / admired better call quality when making a call within Cisco to another employee. I don't use video much but I hope they've done as good of a job as they did with audio.

Slack's audio quality is on par with GoToMeeting, I think. Of all the different solutions I've visited (Google Hangouts, Skype, Slack, Zoom, Join.me etc.), G2M has been the most reliable and best-sounding one that I've found. It's got things like native Mac app, screen sharing (just one presenter, unfortunately), audio/video recording, telephone dial-in, calendar scheduling, and persistence (i.e. you can reuse the sa…

You can generally do this in your computer's sound settings by specifying that you want to listen to your recording device.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by tormeh » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

xpaulbettsx wrote: post #43

vkjv wrote: post #28

Slack calls have been broken in linux for a while--even though they worked when calling first launched. Is a fix for that on the horizon?

If you're using RHEL, you've got a version of GLIBC that's too old, we're trying to figure out what to do about this without asking users to install a bunch of crazy stuff

I know dynamically linking to libraries is the Linux way, but wouldn't just bundling the correct version of glibc with the Slack app solve the problem? Sure, the app gets bigger, but a missing feature is worse than that, I would imagine.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by giovannibajo1 » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:02 PM UTC

We constantly have problems with Slack audio calls, they seem not to be stable even over very stable internet and wifi. I wonder if being in Europe is a factor

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:22 PM UTC

omouse wrote: post #39

bad enough that I can be reached after work via slack and get calls while I'm on a commute (which is never compensated for aside from general salary), it'll have video? also, this only works in Chrome and on mobile, which is really messed up considering that Firefox is also a bleeding edge browser.

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Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by Klathmon » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:25 PM UTC

fpgaminer wrote: post #46

Does Slack have a phone bridge for voice calls? Would be helpful for participants who can't use Slack. If not, I wonder if their APIs allow a bot to join a voice call and get access to the audio...

This is the last thing we require before moving our team over from hangouts (which is the only thing we use even though we pay for the whole g-suite).

Either a way to call-out, have external people call-in, or just allowing a connection of a 3rd party service (paid or otherwise) that lets us connect a phone line.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by Klathmon » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:31 PM UTC

omouse wrote: post #39

bad enough that I can be reached after work via slack and get calls while I'm on a commute (which is never compensated for aside from general salary), it'll have video? also, this only works in Chrome and on mobile, which is really messed up considering that Firefox is also a bleeding edge browser.

I get that not everyone will use or like this feature, but to complain about it existing?

If you don't want people to call you outside the office, why not just tell them not to call you outside the office? Or use the "do not disturb" setting. Or ask whoever runs your slack account to disable calling altogether...

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by jhgjklj » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:34 PM UTC

joshmanders wrote: post #3

I hope screen sharing comes soon. They bought Screen Hero a while back, and said they were integrating it.

Exactly i came to comment the same thing. Lynx sucks. Takes a hell lot of time to reconnect. Can't believe the product is maintained by top developers.

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by dkresge » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:34 PM UTC

lobster_johnson wrote: post #47

aluminussoma wrote: post #14

Has anyone else noticed how pristine the audio quality of a Slack call sounds? I wonder how they optimized it. My company's voip, and Lync, and Skype all fail to deliver the same kind of call quality. I've only noticed / admired better call quality when making a call within Cisco to another employee. I don't use video much but I hope they've done as good of a job as they did with audio.

Slack's audio quality is on par with GoToMeeting, I think. Of all the different solutions I've visited (Google Hangouts, Skype, Slack, Zoom, Join.me etc.), G2M has been the most reliable and best-sounding one that I've found. It's got things like native Mac app, screen sharing (just one presenter, unfortunately), audio/video recording, telephone dial-in, calendar scheduling, and persistence (i.e. you can reuse the sa…

For what it's worth, that little bit of audio feedback is called "sidetone".

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by siminsayz » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

I had two colleagues suddenly have the chat text field filled with Chinese characters and emojis today so they were told to clean their pcs. Different environments and location but both using slack... heard of this ?

Re: Slack Calls: Now with video

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Post by siminsayz » Tue, Dec 13, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

I had two colleagues suddenly have the chat text field filled with Chinese characters and emojis today so they were told to clean their pcs. Different environments and location but both using slack... heard of this ?