Thursday 17 May 2018

Did you know!! ( Spoken words versus Written/texted words)

Did you know that even with the word "please" in a sentence, you could still bore into the nerves of someone and piss them off? Depending on where the word "please" goes in a sentence, you can easily be misunderstood. Compare certain scenarios in your mind with spoken and written words. You will quickly discover written words can easily be misunderstood because there's no tone or audible expression to it. Readers can use any tone they feel like depending on their mood. To retain intimacy while speaking to someone, you may chose to speak to someone in person (face to face conversation), over the phone (phone call) or through video calls. Hence the person must be readily available to speak to you when you wish to speak to them. We all know this is not possible all the time as people have very diverse schedules and live in different time zones and may often need to communicate to each other. Sometimes it's expensive to call if the other person is abroad. there might be too much of the word "hello, hello hello, can you hear me?" with voice calls over the internet. Some of us don't live in countries with fast internet, some of us have friends and family abroad in those countries. With video calls, the person not only needs to be available to speak to you, but must be ready to show their face in front of a camera assuming the internet signal is perfect in the first place. Sometimes it may have to be premeditated when it comes to group calls. What if you want to share your message to a lot of people who are very busy and will only be able to listen or view your message when they're less busy? perhaps a pre-recorded video or a live video would do the trick. But you know you have to be camera ready to record yourself and your users may have to pay attention, Not only listening but watching also. We listeners have to wave bye to multitasking while we're watching that video. We already have social media and direct messaging apps/platforms like Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat that make communication easier  by allowing users share using, texts, pictures and videos. Most of them include voice notes/text-to-speech/speech-to-text as a passive feature of which doesn't work well in many instances as people have different accents and sometimes the phone just doesn't understand you. None of them ever place emphases on voice notes which can solve all the issue discussed earlier and many more that have not been highlighted. The Just Talk social media app does not only address issues and more. We are aware that not everyone knows how to read and write, it also introduces some new features that make audio chatting and sharing a lot fun, it is the first social media app that focuses on voice memos. It attracts users from all parts of the world because of its simplicity. Users can share like they do on other social media platform a long as they remember they would be sharing voice memos only. Not everyone likes how they sound when they record a voice memo, so the app includes Voice filters that allow users change how they sound. Direct messaging is also possible with the conditions that it will be voice memos only. An interesting feature about direct messaging is that all direct messages are automatically deleted after 24hours regardless of whether they've been opened or not. The uses for every individual are endless just like other social media platforms. This is a new platform that everyone should truly get into. It's faster as all you need is your voice.