Glenn Vanderburg
eli_oatHas anyone ever written about the power politics of microphones, audio quality and how they influence a remote meeting?
I leave so many meetings realizing that the people who had the most influence on the call were those with the best audio quality.
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@eli_oat On the flip side, poor audio quality is an accessibility issue, for various sensory impairments and processing difficulties. Ask me how I know...
PB Livin'@eli_oat Also lighting, background, camera angle, and good non-lagging internet connection
Ivan Reese@eli_oat There's so much to this. One I'm dealing with right now is that in-ear headphones (like airpods) hurt my ears, but all the other options degrade sound quality or introduce bleed or limit mobility or cost more than I can afford or substitute a different discomfort.
(Every businesswoman ever: “Yeah… stfu, I have to endure pain for the sake of career, that’s… the cost of doing business, oh ho ho I do crack myself up, but srsly work culture get fucked.”)
SandraYeah… stfu, I have to endure pain for the sake of career
AND we hate how in-ear headphones hate our ears 💁🏻♀️ intersectionality at work
Cian O'ConnorThe best solution I've found (I refuse to spend $200 on airpods) are cheap gamer headphones.
John Kaniarz@spiralganglion I have that problem with good lighting. I get eyestrain headaches staring into lightbulbs during meetings.
@eli_oat
Gamer headphones usually have good microphones, and also keep out external noise (essential if you're unfortunate enough not to have an office).
Obviously if you look pretty stupid on a video call, but that's a whole topic in itself...
CMDR Yojimbosan 🅅⁂@eli_oat Specifically duplex wins - you can interrupt people. Everyone else using laptop speakers & laptop mic usually have to wait for silence ...
𝔰𝔥𝔦𝔟𝔠𝔬@eli_oat I wrote about this in 2021! https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/aesthetic-flattening/
Aaron@eli_oat in 2000 Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean discovered this in a very real way; a mic picked up him screaming at a campaign rally and it came off sounding weird (it didn't sound weird to attendees) and while probably not the sole thing that tanked his campaign, it definitely dampened his support.
The Mïghty Kräcken@eli_oat I was on a group discord live one time with a guy who held the phone up to his EAR the whole time. With the camera on. It was just one long shot of his ear canal.
Coated Ambassadors Everywhere!@eli_oat Usually the person with the highest rank in the company has the worst picture (if any) and audio quality (e.g. distorted, far away and barely legible…), but everyone tries exceptionally hard to listen and understand.
„Fuckin gear is not my business. Business is my business.“
„Fuckin gear is not my business. Business is my business.“