I love it. I used to use HeyTell for sending a quick voice message. I wouldn't say it was a good app, but it got the job done. iOS 8 just makes that experience so much better. I can retrieve a text and instead of dictating back something that is poorly understood by Siri I can instead of speak. This is very handy right after a run when I'm still breathing heavily.
The iOS 8 improvement I'm most impressed with is speech-to-text dictation. It has gotten really, really good.
I use it for a French language course. It’s really useful.
Too bad the sound quality of the voice messages sucks. You'd think Apple would use a higher quality sound file since the message gets deleted in 2 minutes anyway. I'm still using Voxer until it improves.
Yes, it should be in lossless flac format, 6 or 7 megabytes a second with the effect of a choir of angels singing.
Signed...
...the phone companies slavering at the thought of the data overages this could generate.
What a amazing new feature. I guess Apple forgot that many other platforms have been doing just that for over 4 years. These ads are horrible and pointless.
Too bad the sound quality of the voice messages sucks. You'd think Apple would use a higher quality sound file since the message gets deleted in 2 minutes anyway. I'm still using Voxer until it improves.
The voice quality is just fine. And you should be banned for spamming. Please go jump off a bridge somewhere, hopefully a high one.
I don't know what the problem is between you two but [@]grblade[/@] joined in 2008 and has 71 posts.
If 71 posts in roughly 6 years is spamming and worthy of a ban, then you would be mighty busy modding this forum.
What a amazing new feature. I guess Apple forgot that many other platforms have been doing just that for over 4 years. These ads are horrible and pointless.
Interesting how Apple just seems to chug along with no innovation, horrible marketing, obsolete products, terrible ads, the list goes on. What universe do you live in again? Or is it just that Apple customers are so stupid they don’t know any better?
What a amazing new feature. I guess Apple forgot that many other platforms have been doing just that for over 4 years. These ads are horrible and pointless.
Interesting how Apple just seems to chug along with no innovation, horrible marketing, obsolete products, terrible ads, the list goes on. What universe do you live in again? Or is it just that Apple customers are so stupid they don’t know any better?
The test would be to see what percentage of those other platform-users actually use the feature,
as opposed to the percentage of Apple users who will find a use for it.
That will tell us something about both the quality and effectiveness of the ads, as well as demonstrating
whether Apple has again waited until it had a feature "right" when they added it.
Sometimes Apple does things first, just as often they simply do them better.
Interesting how Apple just seems to chug along with no innovation, horrible marketing, obsolete products, terrible ads, the list goes on. What universe do you live in again? Or is it just that Apple customers are so stupid they don’t know any better?
I think right now they are suffering the blackberry effect. Remember when Blackberry was able to release anything and everyone would buy it just because it's blackberry. I think apple are at that stage now where they dont care because whatever release everyone will buy.
I'm surprised that the article explains how to use this feature using the keyboard but that it doesn't point out that the feature doesn't actually require any key presses at all! It's as easy to use as simply lifting the phone to your ear! To send a voice message while in the conversation window, simply lift the phone to your ear, wait half a second for the beep - speak your message - and then remove the phone from your cheek. It's automatically sent - no button presses required. If you receive a voice message - it's the same thing - just lift the phone to your ear and the message automatically plays! (It's probably still illegal to do this while driving in many jurisdictions - but it's a LOT safer than actually texting.)
This is a pretty small feature, did it warrant a commercial, especially when other message clients have had this for a while now, I can even send video messages.
I use it for a French language course. It’s really useful.
Have you checked out Duolingo? If not, it works on the same concept of Rosetta Stone but it's Free Get, fast, effecient, and idealized for iPhone, iPad, Android and a modern desktop web browser. The progress you make on one app will get saved so you can access it from any other of its portals. I'm very impressed all around.
I use it for a French language course. It’s really useful.
Have you checked out Duolingo? If not, it works on the same concept of Rosetta Stone but it's Free Get, fast, effecient, and idealized for iPhone, iPad, Android and a modern desktop web browser. The progress you make on one app will get saved so you can access it from any other of its portals. I'm very impressed all around.
That's precisely what I use! ???? I used to use my iPhone, but It’s even better on the iPad. Great programme. Once I've finished this course, I’ll move onto Italian.
There are easier and far more superrior apps there for voice communication. Apps that work for you. Like Lalalama. Lalalama allows you to record long duration recordings with high quality audio. With unlimited participants in a group. A yes!... Two more things... It's Hands Free. And Mobile multi-tasking.
There are easier and far more superrior apps there for voice communication. Apps that work for you. Like Lalalama. Lalalama allows you to record long duration recordings with high quality audio. With unlimited participants in a group. A yes!... Two more things... It's Hands Free. And Mobile multi-tasking.
WARNING!Both me and my boss have inadvertently sent 'voice messages' as texts without realising it!
A colleague called in sick yesterday . My boss answered, spoke and then ended the call. He then launched into a fit about the excessive amount of time she's had off from work recently... which his iPhone 6 Plus then recorded about 10 secs of and sent to her number as a text!
She received the 'message' ... my boss was mortified ... she said she couldn't hear it properly ... but she heard enough to know he was talking about her!
I thought it was a one off but it happened to me tonight too. Ended a call to a friend, then chatted to my mate who was driving the car. My iPhone 6 Plus then sent a voice message of the first bit of our conversation.
We tried to replicate the event... but can't. You need voice memo enabled and then have to send as text and add contact - that's no easy feat! If you use the microphone function in Text app, it converts to text ... not a voice message. Really weird and very worrying.
My advice. Make sure your iPhone is definitely NOT in phone/text mode after you finish a call. You never know what might be recorded and passed on to the very person you don't want it to!
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I love it. I used to use HeyTell for sending a quick voice message. I wouldn't say it was a good app, but it got the job done. iOS 8 just makes that experience so much better. I can retrieve a text and instead of dictating back something that is poorly understood by Siri I can instead of speak. This is very handy right after a run when I'm still breathing heavily.
The iOS 8 improvement I'm most impressed with is speech-to-text dictation. It has gotten really, really good.
I use it for a French language course. It’s really useful.
Too bad the sound quality of the voice messages sucks. You'd think Apple would use a higher quality sound file since the message gets deleted in 2 minutes anyway. I'm still using Voxer until it improves.
Yes, it should be in lossless flac format, 6 or 7 megabytes a second with the effect of a choir of angels singing.
Signed...
...the phone companies slavering at the thought of the data overages this could generate.
I don't know what the problem is between you two but [@]grblade[/@] joined in 2008 and has 71 posts.
If 71 posts in roughly 6 years is spamming and worthy of a ban, then you would be mighty busy modding this forum.
Also telling people to kill themselves is uncool.
What a amazing new feature. I guess Apple forgot that many other platforms have been doing just that for over 4 years. These ads are horrible and pointless.
Interesting how Apple just seems to chug along with no innovation, horrible marketing, obsolete products, terrible ads, the list goes on. What universe do you live in again? Or is it just that Apple customers are so stupid they don’t know any better?
What a amazing new feature. I guess Apple forgot that many other platforms have been doing just that for over 4 years. These ads are horrible and pointless.
Interesting how Apple just seems to chug along with no innovation, horrible marketing, obsolete products, terrible ads, the list goes on. What universe do you live in again? Or is it just that Apple customers are so stupid they don’t know any better?
The test would be to see what percentage of those other platform-users actually use the feature,
as opposed to the percentage of Apple users who will find a use for it.
That will tell us something about both the quality and effectiveness of the ads, as well as demonstrating
whether Apple has again waited until it had a feature "right" when they added it.
Sometimes Apple does things first, just as often they simply do them better.
I think right now they are suffering the blackberry effect. Remember when Blackberry was able to release anything and everyone would buy it just because it's blackberry. I think apple are at that stage now where they dont care because whatever release everyone will buy.
Have you checked out Duolingo? If not, it works on the same concept of Rosetta Stone but it's
FreeGet, fast, effecient, and idealized for iPhone, iPad, Android and a modern desktop web browser. The progress you make on one app will get saved so you can access it from any other of its portals. I'm very impressed all around.I use it for a French language course. It’s really useful.
Have you checked out Duolingo? If not, it works on the same concept of Rosetta Stone but it's Free Get, fast, effecient, and idealized for iPhone, iPad, Android and a modern desktop web browser. The progress you make on one app will get saved so you can access it from any other of its portals. I'm very impressed all around.
That's precisely what I use! ???? I used to use my iPhone, but It’s even better on the iPad. Great programme. Once I've finished this course, I’ll move onto Italian.
WARNING! Both me and my boss have inadvertently sent 'voice messages' as texts without realising it!
A colleague called in sick yesterday . My boss answered, spoke and then ended the call. He then launched into a fit about the excessive amount of time she's had off from work recently... which his iPhone 6 Plus then recorded about 10 secs of and sent to her number as a text!
She received the 'message' ... my boss was mortified ... she said she couldn't hear it properly ... but she heard enough to know he was talking about her!
I thought it was a one off but it happened to me tonight too. Ended a call to a friend, then chatted to my mate who was driving the car. My iPhone 6 Plus then sent a voice message of the first bit of our conversation.
We tried to replicate the event... but can't. You need voice memo enabled and then have to send as text and add contact - that's no easy feat! If you use the microphone function in Text app, it converts to text ... not a voice message. Really weird and very worrying.
My advice. Make sure your iPhone is definitely NOT in phone/text mode after you finish a call. You never know what might be recorded and passed on to the very person you don't want it to!