This voice message interface on WeChat is really smooth: record a message, swipe to have it transcribed or deleted, or simply release and send it as a voice message!pic.twitter.com/LOJmpxZEqw
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Would love to see it get even blurrier: If you text them, they can read or listen to it. If you voice them, they can listen to or read it. Then I could engage completely by audio or text and without restricting the other side to one or the other?
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Replying to @ctabrizi_ @jasonyuandesign and
This feels freeing in some ways, delivering the message in whichever medium is most appropriate or desired (also great for accessibility) — but also a potential downside of losing context
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Replying to @jtvhk @jasonyuandesign and
Could you elaborate on "but also a potential downside of losing context"?
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Replying to @ctabrizi_ @jasonyuandesign and
Some things are made to be communicated in the same medium they were sent in, for example you might lose affect by translating voice to text. McLuhan's work on media is particularly relevant for furthur reading :)
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Replying to @jtvhk @jasonyuandesign and
Got it. Totally agree! :-) I wonder how far we can push things though. (e.g. audio waveform synced to the transcription? Colorize the text based on sentiment analysis?)
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Max Krieger Retweeted Max Kreminski
I like the colorization piece not because I like prescriptive text models but rather because I like any affordance that gives synaesthetic patina a la https://mobile.twitter.com/maxkreminski/status/1244083716156096512 … Anything that differentiates messages, even though I don't really like sentiment, can be a perceptual win
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