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Sorry if this has been asked before but I couldn't find the thread. I wonder if BBO plan to try live voice commentary for any of the Vugraph presentations. BridgeClubLive recently did a show with voice commentary which was very enjoyable. I think Swangames also have occasional shows with voice.
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Posted 2005-January-11, 00:06
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Posted 2005-January-11, 09:04
I'm mildly interested but we don't have any active plans.
Someday I hope to find a cheap service that allows one person to call in and supply voice (using a toll free number or a PC/microphone) and others to listen, live, via telephone or streaming audio. If someone knows of one, yell:) I have no interest in building any of this for ourselves, but I am open to paying for a commercial service.
Someday I hope to find a cheap service that allows one person to call in and supply voice (using a toll free number or a PC/microphone) and others to listen, live, via telephone or streaming audio. If someone knows of one, yell:) I have no interest in building any of this for ourselves, but I am open to paying for a commercial service.
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Posted 2005-January-11, 11:41
If we are talking about vugraph-sized audiences then you'd really like some form of multicast because otherwise unicasting voice for 5000+ people is really going to overload just about any machine and/or network connection. What is being suggested has been done on a small scale for certain BIL events using Yahoo Messenger. That would divulge everyone's yahoo IDs and open them up to unwanted messaging.
Another potential idea is a program called RogerWilco. It is a barebones voice program intended for use by gamers to communicate with one another while playing some game. This program is free to download and you could maybe do something where BBO launches it and configures it. The problem again is that the simple way to configure it would overwhelm the distribution point. It is difficult, I won't lie, but to do this you'd have to create a user-level multicast network amongst BBO people watching the vugraph and use pairs of RogerWilco connections between nodes in the multicast graph. You can also buy the RogerWilco API and integrate it directly with your application but this cost some amount of money...how much I don't know. This approach is totally doable but it just takes effort.
Todd
Another potential idea is a program called RogerWilco. It is a barebones voice program intended for use by gamers to communicate with one another while playing some game. This program is free to download and you could maybe do something where BBO launches it and configures it. The problem again is that the simple way to configure it would overwhelm the distribution point. It is difficult, I won't lie, but to do this you'd have to create a user-level multicast network amongst BBO people watching the vugraph and use pairs of RogerWilco connections between nodes in the multicast graph. You can also buy the RogerWilco API and integrate it directly with your application but this cost some amount of money...how much I don't know. This approach is totally doable but it just takes effort.
Todd
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Posted 2005-January-11, 12:52
I don't think that voice/video adds much to a Vugraph presentation.
Text has a number of advantages including:
1. No problems with accents
2. Its easy to quickly scorll back and review comments
3. I can listen to music at the same time that I am wathcing Vugraph
Text has a number of advantages including:
1. No problems with accents
2. Its easy to quickly scorll back and review comments
3. I can listen to music at the same time that I am wathcing Vugraph
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Posted 2005-January-11, 13:52
Have you been to a live vugraph at the nationals?
Todd
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