A Social Network for Voice Notes (voice memo) only

Over time the means of communication has evolved. Many new means have been created. Some of which includes Video call, face to face conversation, letter writing, Phone call, Text messaging, conference call, picture sharing and Voice notes. Most of the new means of communication have been through online platform for social networking. Facebook has pictures, texts and videos, Instagram mainly focuses on pictures and videos, WeChat basically has everything and more. Then we have twitter which is purely text, with the later inclusion of videos and pictures. All of these platforms also have a direct messenger imbedded in them that allow users to send Texts, pictures, videos, Gifs, voice memos and emojis. WhatsApp's and BBM's main focus is on text direct messaging. If you take a look at all of the trends in most social network, you'll discover that most of them place emphasis on text, videos and pictures. Every other feature is an added on feature. None of them have placed major emphasis on voice messaging even tho quite a number of people enjoy sending voice notes. Although proportion of voice memos compared to text messages in most messaging app are small, we have found a large proportion with WeChat. The western world and other part of the world might be texting but WeChat which is based in china understand the benefits of voice messaging. It's faster, it retains intimacy in conversations and most of all its just easier than texting considering that typing in Chinese is not as straight forward as typing in English. 13% of the messages sent by youths are Voice messages, 16% of messages sent by any typical user are voice messages with the highest proportion coming from senior users at 22% (Statista, 2018)

The importance of voice messages over other forms of communication are many and interesting. With  phone call, whoever you're trying to reach has to be ready and available to not only listen to you but speak back to you. With Text messages, The issues are even greater, not everyone can read and write, it just takes to much time, it's easy to lie over texts, your texts can easily be misread as written words tend to have more than one interpretation, intimacy is barely present. Think about those "LOL(s)" you've written with a straight face, that should help you understand where I'm heading. Video call has similarities with phone calls, but imagine what a weak internet signal would do to that skype call with family. To many, people video calls are not something you do every time. Voice notes can make your day to day means of communication easier, you can synch schedules together and retain intimacy. It's faster and easier. For these reasons Just Talk has been created.

The uses of Just Talk extends further from Just an audio messaging app to a new age social media platform with emphasis on our voices. That is something no one has done before. This is the first time we have a platform that focuses on voice notes only. Its is a social media/networking platform for Voice notes only where all of your posts are limited to voice notes only. You have maximum of 3 minutes to express yourself in a public post or in a direct message. Not everyone likes how they sound so we included voice filters that help users change how they sound. You can monitor the number of times your uploads have been played. All private direct messages are automatically deleted after 24 hours regardless of weather you've opened them or not. A history of all your messages will remain but the messages will be long gone.

We should remember that nothing like this has ever existed before and the uses are immense. Imagine you loved sending voice notes and loved receiving them but it' not the same for your friends, every time you send them a voice note on WhatsApp or whatever media app, you always got a text back. on just talk you'll be 100 percent assured that every message you sent or received will be a voice memo (voice note) because on this app, there is not texting involved. It's 100% voice notes only. You don't Text, you just talk. If you were a motivational speaker, a pastor, a comedian, an actor or anybody, regardless of whether you have fans or followers and you want to share something important or fun. Before your options where limited to videos, pictures and texts if you had to do it on social media.  for videos you have to be well dressed probably, put your videos face on, shoot then upload, for texting you had to type the message which takes time and after you upload it, you'd have to start hoping no one has misinterpreted what you wrote. picture has similar problems with videos and texts but with voice notes it's a different ball game. In many occasions the most interest post of the day comes up right as you wake up in the morning. No need for all the charades with voice notes all you have to do is push and start recording. You don't even have to get out of bed to do that. in the future Just Talk will be integrated with your smart speakers (Siri, google voice, bixbi and so on) so you don't even have to turn on your phone if you don't want to. all you have to do is say a couple of commands and you'll be ready to go. These are only a few of many way Just Talk can change the way we do things.

So why don't you start giving Just Talk a go. Be one of the first star to be popular on this. Just as long as you remember you don't have to text, Just Talk.



Reference: https://www.statista.com/statistics/669372/china-share-of-wechat-voice-messages-sent-by-age/

Walkthrough video (part 1)

More efforts has been made towards our tutorials and many more will come. This tutorial introduces all the screen in the app and gives a brief description of every single one of them.
as I always do for the newcomers, I'll describe JUST TALK . It is an audio only social media app for those who love anything audio. For those who would Love it in future and for those who just don't know yet. It's open to all and everyone will be able to use it in anyway that suits well with them. This social media app JUST TALK allows you to share your voice without showing your face. you can share your voice by broadcasting it to everyone with our CAST feature which you would see in this video or you can share your voice by sending it through direct messages to your contacts on the app. you can also change how you sound with a selection of our voice filters. It's a new concept that makes audio chatting way more fun than people imagined.  All uploaded casts will remain on the server forever but all direct messages are automatically deleted after 24 hours. Discover more with Voice notes today by downloading JUST TALK
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Knowing your app. (part 24). Happy Sunday

First of all, I Just want to take this time to say HAPPY SUNDAY to everyone. Best wishes today and we hope you have a wonderful week ahead. I worked tirelessly last week and had no time to blog. 6am to 10pm daily. I'm now back and ready to blog again. The app "JUST Talk" is currently experiences notification issues. We're trying to find solutions to that problem because it seems to keep coming and going. Some times it works and some times it doesn't, however in the past two days, it has been the same thing. It has not worked at all. I'm certain it will be sorted by Monday (tomorrow).  we've also been experiencing great increase in the number of daily app downloads. I'm super excited about that and we expect this will keep improving. In the next coming days we would be uploading a new version of the app to the app store. It will contain, Facebook login and Just talk Cast. We're also still working on new filters which would be available soon. 32 new filters are projected to be available by the end of the year.

Knowing your app (part 18) change how you sound: Voice filter

Sincere apologies for not being able to post in a while, I have been unbelievably busy for the past few days.. But anyways let's go back to what we came here to read.

So far we've learnt about the app screens, how to add new friends, how to listen to your messages and how to send messages. As one of the app's major features is the ability to change how you sound we've decided to teach you how to do that in this post. This would probably be fun for most people. Using the voice filters is relatively easy also. To use to filters in the app we have to be familiar with the filter page (picture would be shown below). Getting to the filter page is really easy. once you've been logged in the app, simply swipe left from any page/screen in the app and you would be taken to the filter page which would contain a selection of filters (more would be added as time goes buy). select anyone you please and hit the "back" icon to go back to timeline page/screen, Record a new message and experience the difference. Note: upon selection of desired filter, a text would be displayed at the bottom of the screen showing the name of the filter you have selected.

Another way to get to the filter page/screen is from the timeline page/screen. Tap on the icon (double arrow pointing to the left) at the bottom right of the screen and you would be taken to the "filter page"

announcement: there might be some delays with one of our updates because we are currently exploring a couple of voice filters and working on the noise some of our users hear in many of their messages.

Knowing your App (part 5)

For those who do not know what Just Talk is about here's a brief explanation. It is a messaging app for sending and receiving voice messages only, with voice filters to change how you sound. Users can listen to their sent of received messages as many times as they want but after 24 hours the messages will be deleted. Note: if you do no open your received or sent message after 24 hours, it will still be deleted. Smileys are displayed by every message and they indicate when a message has been opened, left unopened or deleted. Straight up voice messaging app. no texting, just voice messages. Don't text, Just Talk.
  Now we shall continue from where we left off in previous post. the moment you click the button "verify" your profile will get created and you would be taken to the "timeline page". This page I believe most of us will visit the most because all your sent and received messages appear here. On this page we will see the username of the people who you sent or received your messages. The smiley by every name signify different things also (shall be explained in the next post). Something to note about them is that they change when a message has been opened or deleted (hence where there are different smileys in the picture below. You will also be able to tell when your message has been sent or deleted from this page. This page is an active page as it contains not only your messages but the navigation icons to other pages. the settings icon on the top left, the profile page icon on the top middle, the record new message icon on the top right and the filter page icon in the bottom of the screen. each page shall be explained in future posts. while using the app you will notice everything has been made to be very simple. It will be self explanatory when you start using it. This timeline page will be the landing page for the app anytime you open the app (as long s you do not sign out or delete  the app). Most times is you leave the app you would be taken to where you left off, however if the app refreshes or if you close the app from recent tabs, you would be taken to the landing page which is the timeline page.

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knowing your app (part 1)

Many new thing are coming soon, many which would be made available monthly. exciting enough to increase your love for the app daily. In the main time here's the begining of a series of tutorial about using Just Talk. Asides the intro, log in and the sign up page the app has a total of 5 pages in total. one of which is the main page of the app. These 4 pages would most likely be visited more often than the others. They are called the "timeline" page, the "record" page, the "profile" page, the "setting" page and the "filter" page (pictures below write-up). these pages have been made very simple and easy to use. there would be indept tutorial about how each pages of the app works in future posts.

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Record Page

Timeline page

Settings Page.

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Just Talk - DTJT: A breif Description

Just Talk - DTJT (Don't text, Just Talk) is a messaging app for sending and receiving voice messages only with voice filters to change how you sound. Users can open and listen to their messages as many times as they want within 24 hours, after which messages will be deleted. Even if a user fails to open ther message(s) within 24 hours, it will still be deleted automatically. There are smileys(emoji, emoticon) by every message to indicate when a message has been opened, unoppened and or deleted. in future, infuture they will also change in relation to time. The app is available for FREE on the app store only and has been available for only 3 weeks. Andoid version will be available on the google play store in a couple weeks to come. There have been two app upodates since then Initial release to add new features, fix bugs and improve user experience. The initial release included normal voice and one voice filter (Version 1.0). Version 1.1 included a new button icon for the send/record icon, a new navigation icon for the filter page and some bug fixes. Version 1.2 included walkthrough tutorials, a new voice filter and some more bug fixes. At the moment there are no texting features in the app and none have been planned for the future. It is strictly for voice messages/Voice Note only. Any additional feature will be based around that. There have been alot planned for the app and they would be released monthly.Updates may arive sooner depending on urgency of update as we have had two updates so far in the past three weeks. More than 100 new filters have been planned for the app and will be released gradualy in future updates. More of the app features will also be revealed in future updates.

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