Linden Lab are discussing the issue of background noise and voice chat in their 'Knowledge Base Article of the Week' feature. I'm hopeful this will become a popular article as like most people, I've had some astoundingly bad experiences with other people's background noise. How about you? … [Read more...] about Minimising background noise in voice chat in Second Life
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Text-to-speech: Cepstral’s CEO speaks
Last week, text-to-speech company Cepstral announced they'd formed a partnership with virtual world IMVU to supply text-to-speech capability. Text-to-speech has huge potential in the virtual world context and is a feature Second Life users have been wishing for. We caught up with Cepstral's CEO, Craig Campbell, to get a little more detail: Lowell: What was the impetus for … [Read more...] about Text-to-speech: Cepstral’s CEO speaks
Linden Lab commence survey on voice in Second Life
Linden Lab have announced their latest survey is devoted to Second Life residents' experience with using voice. Get your voice heard by completing the survey. We also have a voice forum if you're passionate about the issue. Update (January 2008) - a further survey is being undertaken on preferred voice features into the future. … [Read more...] about Linden Lab commence survey on voice in Second Life
The SL voice experience so far
On the SLOz forums, Juko Tempel has invited comments on residents' experiences with voice in SL to date. How have you found it? How often do you use voice versus text? … [Read more...] about The SL voice experience so far
To voice or not to voice? There really is a question
Unless you haven't logged into SL in the past few days, you'll be aware that voice is now part of the main grid browser. It remains an optional download at present but it's certainly ramping up. New World Notes are running a reader poll on voice take-up and its early results are interesting: It's no great surprise that there's initial resistance to voice from … [Read more...] about To voice or not to voice? There really is a question