I feel like when i first got invited to gmail LOL This is a buttery smooth experience to add tasks and more using my voice. Bonus points because it understands my international accent so well! Looking forward to using more! Thanks makers 😊
@stuart_eggerton Thanks for trying it out Stuart! Yeah with our international team, even though everyone speaks english it theres it still a challenge to get the accents right!
@stuart_eggerton Wow, thanks Stuart! As we're a globally distributed team, you can imagine that this is very important to us [1]. People should not feel forced to talk like a machine to work with voice, we want to allow you to talk with your team as naturally as if they were in the same room.
One of the more magical advances in speech recognition recently is the availability of more accents for languages. It's not really that long ago that even my Australian accent couldn't be understood but now it's nearly flawless. The more this accuracy improves for everyone, the more I'm really excited about what we can build with Verbz!
[1] Our current distributed team record is having the team spread out across 7 countries - and that was nearly one each :)
@kevin_david_k thanks! take it for a spin and let us know whats working and whats not! We'd love to hear [voice message in the app? ;) ] your feedback!
This looks interesting. I have a few questions:
1. can this be used as a personal tool or does it have to be used with teammates?
2. what's the cost? i see a promo code for PHUNT but it says free on the website
3. is there a limit to the length of voice recordings that can be saved?
@sarrah Thanks for the questions Sarrah!
1. Can definitely be used a personal tool - recording notes or assigning tasks to yourself is definitely supported. If you do have to share a note or assign a task with an external user, we allow you to just send them what you create over email
2. We're free to download. We're currently scaling up as we add more users so the promo code is just making sure that the people who join early can add their friends too. Everyone who signsup now will have access to a personal invite code that they can use too!
3. There's no technical limit to how long you can record. For example, one of our early users is using Verbz to create a recording of himself reading a book :)
re voice length, a useful feature we have implemented is the append button. This lets our user take a pause between recordings and the end result is still a continuous piece of audio. So they only need to hold the record button when they're actually talking - don't need to say everything in one breath!
@sarrah Hey Sarah, thanks for your questions.
1. A lot of people are using it by themselves for notes and to-dos. It also works great with smaller team , like if you work with 1 or 2 other people. We're not trying to replace Slack for huge operations teams, we want highly mobile or highly personal teams to communicate and manage their work better.
2. Some people are using it for voice diaries. Not an intended use case, but we're stoked that people find it a painless way to capture thoughts (playback on notes got delayed.. next week!)
3. What you see/try today is 🔥free🔥 and won't be paywalled. We have some pro tiers coming that will include advanced features. We want to be useful free or paid
4. Promo code is used as we've been invite only beta, and want to to be able to slow adoption if necessary. It will morph into a friendly friend code as we reach product maturity.
Pricing TBD, we're still learning about how people use voice and where it fits into their day.
@sarrah@geigster That's a good way to capture the essence of Verbz.
"We're not trying to replace Slack for huge operations teams, we want highly mobile or highly personal teams to communicate and manage their work better."
@sarrah@geigster The transparency you and the team seem to have is amazing. Keep it up. Makes it so much easy to move my team over reading clearly what you're doing and intend to. I also LOVE that you're real people, not cartoon characters (like a lot of the "note taking" products seem to be lately).
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