- From: Thierry MICHEL <tmichel@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:14:16 +0100
- To: Anthony Bowyer-Lowe <anthony@lowbroweye.com>
- CC: Olivier Thereaux <olivier.thereaux@bbc.co.uk>, public-audio@w3.org
Le 12/01/2012 12:45, Anthony Bowyer-Lowe a écrit : > On 12 January 2012 09:56, Olivier Thereaux<olivier.thereaux@bbc.co.uk>wrote: > >> * Each user could have access to an interface to make each of the other >> participants' sound more/less loud. >> * The service could offer user-triggered settings (EQ, filtering) for >> voice enhancement >> > > These are definitely desirable in order to facilitate communication between > people with hearing difficulties (ageing population), in imperfect > listening environments, or to compensate for poor transmission environments > (filtering out rumble from passing traffic, etc). +1 > > * The service could offer an option to slow down / speed up one of the >> participant's voice. >> > > As Robert mentioned, I'm not sure this makes sense. > > However, somewhat related, I loosely feel there *could* be a need to alter > relative time delays of each participants audio stream to realign the audio > when some participants have longer transmission latencies than others. I > have seen situations where a band has broadcast a jam via a Google hangout > from a single location with multiple webcams where each cam stream was way > out of sync but I'm really not sure that it is a particularly common > need. Thoughts? Isn't that option to slow down / speed up one of the participant's voice also an accessibility benefit? I can understand spanish, but not at the speed rate of a Madrileños speaking. Slowing down his voice would help me better understand him. On the contrary Swiss are told to speak a slow french. I may accelerate this Genevois guy ;-) More seriously, I know blind people who listen text to speech at a very surprising speed. But this may be a bit difficult to deal with this slow down / speed up option during a teleconference and stay in scynch. > > > Anthony. >
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