{"id":694,"date":"2006-07-04T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=694"},"modified":"2006-07-04T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T01:04:00","slug":"sl-forums-disguised-voice-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/sl-forums-disguised-voice-chat\/","title":{"rendered":"SL Forums &#8211; Disguised voice chat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m bleathering on the forums, thought I&#8217;d spread the bleather here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.secondlife.com\/showthread.php?p=1124724#post1124724\">SL Forums &#8211; Disguised voice chat<\/a>: &#8220;Love SL. The one thing which really gets to me is the time it can take to &#8216;talk&#8217; through a keyboard. Simply speaking is much faster; I could type for an hour or speak the same content in ten minutes. Skype-like functionality could revolutionise SL.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, anonymity has to be part of the SL experience, but that&#8217;s possible. If you have a Mac, try Garageband &#8212; it allows live voice changing effects to be applied, including gender changing and other modfications.<\/p>\n<p>It probably wouldn&#8217;t be feasible everywhere, at least at first, but it would make a big difference in the long run. It could also bring a great many new residents &#8212; why just call someone when you can meet them in SL for a virtual drink instead?<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I&#8217;m bleathering on the forums, thought I&#8217;d spread the bleather here: SL Forums &#8211; Disguised voice chat: &#8220;Love SL. The one thing which really gets to me is the time it can take to &#8216;talk&#8217; through a keyboard. Simply speaking is much faster; I could type for an hour or speak the same content &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/sl-forums-disguised-voice-chat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SL Forums &#8211; Disguised voice chat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}