I already hate people who send voice messages in a world where dictation software exists. I hate whoever even thought of joking about this even more.
But dictation software would omit crucial parts like ummms, coughing etc
The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.
Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it's not going to be worth my time.
For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.
Most of the times I get a voice message it could be written in two sentences, but they still decide to make it a two minute voice message. Just a lot of useless stuff added for free
I always try to think about what I'm writing before sending it, you can't proofread an audio message
maybe this sucks of me but when people do this i just don't bother listening. sorry you couldn't be assed to send a fifteen second text, i def can't be fucked to listen to a five minute ramble that's mostly filler
Voice messages are good for those who speak a language which doesn't get focused on by transcription services or are too old to read tiny text
Imagine spending HOURS listening your colleagues comments... I quit.
I would enable this in my project so I can ban any contributor who submits an MR with it
If I ever encountered a voice comment in code I would immediately track that motherfucker down and do terrible things to them
I am deaf. i already struggle with keeping up with subtitles on tutorial videos of some obscure stuff that has little to no docs. Kindly return this idea to a void function instead and try not to catch the erroneous thread with these satanic proposals.
Yes please, I would love not being able to scan comments to see if they are relevant to what I'm trying to do
I actually like this, at least in some way it could lower the barrier for actually explaining what a function does. Though I don't see this working in an office environment
You can’t skim an audio file, you have to listen from the beginning to the end. Audio makes symbols that are often used in programming difficult to parse or confusing. I… really dislike this
This is okay but only if they auto play and contain guttural screaming
Only if your fifteen minute comment recorded during the morning commute is transcribed by the most limited speech to text system possible and put as alt text.
