Is the “Voice” Dead?
Posted on 20. Aug, 2008 by Kimberly in Blog, business
Okay, okay, I am just asking a question. We have become so dictated in business by text, SMS, email that we may have forgotten to keep our voice in the equation.
I have read quite a bit lately regarding voice etiquette, networking skills, business luncheon appropriateness and so forth; however, I have noticed a strong decline in the ability to leave a voice message.
Get your Voice
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James Scroggs, VP of Consumer Business at SpinVox states, “I’ve long held that people have lost their voice – call it the stuttering of the democratic process, not in having a right to vote or the mechanic to do so, but the real sense that a person’s voice can count for something, be purposeful, weighty, and heard amongst the din of Rice Crispy culture and politics.
Now I find myself in the realms of a brilliant system, SpinVox, that can make the human voice matter again. How? Because SpinVox takes a voice – literally the energy in motion of particles in the air – and converts it into text data. That data can then be posted as content into the digital world.
It’s a revolution: for me, voice is the last human faculty that has not been obfuscated or complicated by the advances of science. It remains entirely naked, and therefore a pure expression of your ID, your self.
If only 30% of the language processed by our system is Dictionary-documented, then the complexities and personalities contained in the spoken language and vernacular suggest that the voice continues to be an immensely powerful tool for us all to emotional connect with each other, create and find social order.
So what is the future of voice?
What’s is its summit of its mountainous journey?”
This is a great service for a small business as it allows us to receive real messages by phone, have them converted to text and emailed to us. It also allows us to vocally update our Twitter status, post to our corporate blog, put forth an email blast to our customers or colleagues and just save time. Instead of going through endless voice messages, I can quickly read to see if I need to respond to something immediately or if it is just to be filed till later. The major benefit is that I learn to dictate my messages better and it gives my clients and colleagues the opportunity to speak freely, knowing that it will be sent to me directly, in the manner they are thinking and wanting it to “sound.” Emailing quick message with half-english is never a way to get the message through. I think and share better when I am speaking, and my typing, although gets the job done, is never fast enough for my thoughts. This is a perfect solution.
I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas about the power of voice in your business. Have you tried SpinVox or something like it? Let me know. I am listening.
Here is something you might like to read, hint, hint
Kimberly Beaven is a Web Designer and Creative Director of BlueWave Media. She is is truly a gadget girl who loves architecture, photography, design and coding. Learn more via twitter or her Google Profile. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed.