Echo - Instant voice messenger with speech-to-text for remote teams

@kevin @eo @kyryl FINALLY SOMENE MADE THIS! 🤩🙌 I feel like it's adding wheels to luggage, should've been done a long time ago! Thank you!

@peter_bondarevsky thank you Peter :) I'll put it this way — I have an iOS version on my phone but it's not ready yet. We're working on it.

@peter_bondarevsky iOS version is currently under intensive development. Coming soon.

@kensavage Ken, it's both - you could create channels/groups and talk to many people at once

@osalabs even better! Thx

@osalabs @kensavage We built it with Slack in mind and with similar concepts — workspaces for separate teams, one to one, public and private channels.

@paul_nylund thanks for the feedback Paul! We definitely work on interface improvements

@paul_nylund you know we had this at Yac for awhile and most users hated it. Designers found it always in the way and developers didn’t want it floating over their code. We ended up removing the feature

@paul_nylund hi Paul, and thanks for the feedback. We did explore a few of those options but none ended up in the version we released since none of those were polished enough. As Justin mentioned below it's something that's difficult to get right but we think we have an idea and we will ship that in the future once we believe it's ready.

@danbollo Thank you Daniel! Yes — I agree and that's something we will work on, but we decided to go ahead and launch without a video. When you are saying a short demo – do you mean a simple video walkthrough of all features or more of a marketing video?

@kyryl Why not both? :) A short demo/explainer video on the homepage, and a longer more detailed demo on the Features or Help page perhaps.

@danbollo yep, that's the thinking. actually, if you look into the source of the homepage and features page you'll even see play buttons which were designed and developed but hidden because we did not have enough time to produce videos ;)

@ejsnowdon @aaronoleary this is exactly what we had in mind building it and exactly how we are using it. glad to hear we're on the right track ;) Please let us know how it goes!

@damionp Hi Damion. No, Echo is designed for a natural conversation flow, click-say-send style.

@kyryl Got it. Thank you.

@bbeldagli here's a full list: English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (India), English (New Zealand), English (United Arab Emirates), English (Australia), English (Ireland), English (Canada), English (Philippines), English (Indonesia), English (South Africa), English (Saudi Arabia), English (Singapore), Українська, Português (Portugal), Português (Brasil), Русский, Hrvatski (Hrvatska), Nederlands (België), Nederlands (Nederland), norsk bokmål (Norge), Español (Estados Unidos), Español (Latinoamérica), Español (Colombia), Español (México), Español (Chile), Español (España), català (Espanya), Italiano (Svizzera), Italiano (Italia), français (Belgique), Indonesia (Indonesia), 日本語（日本, Deutsch (Deutschland), Deutsch (Schweiz), Deutsch (Österreich), Français (Canada), Français (Suisse), Français (France), 中文（中国大陆）, ไทย (ไทย), Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα), हिन्दी (भारत, TRANSLIT), 中文（台灣）, العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية), हिन्दी (भारत), 中文（香港）, Türkçe (Türkiye), Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia), 粤语 (中国大陆), čeština (Česko), Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam), dansk (Danmark), svenska (Sverige), slovenčina (Slovensko), Polski (Polska), Hindi (Latin), română (România), 한국어(대한민국), Suomi, עברית (ישראל), 上海话（中国大陆）, Magyar (Magyarország)

@kyryl wow... wonderful :)

@natalia_solovyeva Thank you ;)

@tatsiana_gavrilova It's a pretty long list — as a native app we support all the languages Apple speech recognition supports - including Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, German, French, Chinese, Hindi etc.

@petecashmore yeah it is! absolutely agree.

@iamroguelondon yes — aware of that market and looked at it. Right now our focus is internal teams. We know how to serve that market well and that's simply what we've chosen to start with. Functionally, we can already support external/guest users, cross-workspace bridges etc (Echo was built with Slack usage paradigms/concepts in mind to align well if you team is already using Slack) but internal teams is the only piece of the puzzle we consider ready enough to be launched. With that said, if you are a part of the team who would use such functionality please reach out to k@eo.chat and we'll be happy to work with you and your team while improving those features.

@eo @kyryl thanks for the reply. I wish you all the best.

@siamohajer Not right now but that's the plan.

@atif_unaldi Yes Atif, Echo supports speech recognition in Turkish.

@symphonius Working on it!

@youcedom that's fair. I apologize if our messaging felt misleading. I'll work on bringing this up higher up in the funnel.