Conference call simulator

Post by dsnuh » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 9:28 PM UTC

noelwelsh wrote: post #28

loudandskittish wrote: post #11

I'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?

Post by vito » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 9:56 PM UTC

noelwelsh wrote: post #28

loudandskittish wrote: post #11

I'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?

Post by dharmab » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 10:27 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #64

jachee wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine had a Loud Typer, and someone called on them to mute out. Just like IRL.

We have a guy with a mechanical keyboard on the team. After a while people just started muting him in Hangouts. It's not even the mechanical keyboard itself that's the problem, but the way it interacts with whatever noise-filtering algorithms Hangouts runs.

Post by Aloha » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 10:41 PM UTC

Spooky23 wrote: post #40

baby wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

There is a whole political/social angle as well. Some people are concall Jedi who can really wield power effectively on calls and dominate meetings better than in person. It’s one of the many reasons why calls are awful!

Post by Aloha » Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 10:51 PM UTC

ilikehurdles wrote: post #25

7ewis wrote: post #13

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.

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.…