Zoom fatigue is real
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Zoom fatigue is real
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#2The article is easier to read on the site where it was originally posted:
https://theconversation.com/zoom-fatigue-how-to-make-video-c...
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#3What do people think of "equalizing" your voice for these online meetings? Reducing the higher frequencies in favor of lower ones.
Any tools on linux that can do this?
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#4This article seems to address the problem of being a bad online meeting participant which I see as different than Zoom Fatigue.
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#5Based on an earlier discussion here on HN about Zoom burnout and latency I recorded a cast episode about that very subject:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/3-is-latency-killing-o...
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#6The article is easier to read on the site where it was originally posted: https://theconversation.com/zoom-fatigue-how-to-make-video-c...
This is an interesting comparison. I'm using uBlock Origin so I'm not sure how the ads compare. Layout-wise, theconversation.com is a little more narrow, and the links are not as highlighted. But the non-black font is a deal-breaker for me. (I'm sure there's an extension, but I find myself doing Inspect -> Uncheck Font Color a lot!) The only other difference is that PopSci.com seems to have less clutter in the columns, so for me, it's the better reading experience (before I give up and toggle reader view!)
EDIT: There is (at least one!)
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#7What do people think of "equalizing" your voice for these online meetings? Reducing the higher frequencies in favor of lower ones. Any tools on linux that can do this?
Not a linux user, but a decent external mic or headset is going to make the most difference here, its largely a factor of the tiny internal mics in laptops. They will also do better with sound insulation, internal are not well insulated from the fan, keyboard etc.
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#8hahhahahah, Slack, Skype, Team, Hangout fatigue too, i'm sick of NSA watching me, damn muri-wormcans
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#9The solution to Zoom fatigue is to eliminate meetings where the purpose is to share basic facts & information.
Save meetings for collaboration, relationship-building, and working on thorny problems.
Re: Zoom fatigue is real
#10What do people think of "equalizing" your voice for these online meetings? Reducing the higher frequencies in favor of lower ones. Any tools on linux that can do this?
Your computer mic will be biased towards vocal range frequencies anyway. Components of the voice that are unpleasant are in the upper mid range around 3-4k i think. For smoother voices what you really want is specialised compression to get rid of sibilance (hissy s sound) and plosives (low frequency large air movement caused by b, d, p sounds) from listening to a lot of voice calls recently though I think most machines do quite a lot of this automatically. The key here thou is don't get too close to the mic as it exaggerates these effects.