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Alex Kistenev

Slack Voice Chat by Standuply - Easily record and send voice messages on Slack 🗣️

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/voice command for Slack to send voice messages to your teammates.

We know you wanted it - so here it is 😎

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Pavel B.
It would be much better if recordings were translated into texts too, so anyone can preview or refer later on without listening over and over again. Well, at least in English. :)
Alex Kistenev
Maker
@inlinecoder Well, it's not an easy task... How would you handle that?
Pavel B.
@sprinter from which perspective? UX? UI? Code?
Alex Kistenev
Maker
@inlinecoder first from UX, assume ~2 min duration which will be a lot of text and thus inconvenient to use; next - speech recognition isn't good and pricey. It all brings more challenges then value. How would you solve it?
Pavel B.
@sprinter I'd say, a postponed speech-recognition (not a real-time) might be ok. So, basically, you record your voice as you usually do with no signs of speech to text conversion. Then, later on, every chat member is provided with a fully converted speech or, at least, a small preview. Providing a small preview, for, say, first 10-15-30 secs might be a good feature to be able to navigate through all messages (and to keep history). There're some fundamental issues with having voice (messages in a chat): – It's not searchable – It's not accessible (in terms of human disabilities) – It's not conveniently preview-able ... (I do indeed agree that it's not a trivial task. I'd argue about it's importance tho)
Pavel B.
@sprinter real-life case: I'm using voice/video messages very often for a work and casually, but everyone hates me because of this and eventually I have to outline what was told :( I have to mention when it's casually, it's perceived much better as the information being conveyed isn't that important.
Alex Kistenev
Maker
Hello Product Hunt! Recently we shipped Video Messages on Slack. Many of you asked us to make the same, but for voice. So here it is. I'm excited to announce that from now on you can send voice (and video) messages on Slack to keep in touch with remote teammates ✨ 💡 How does it work? You install Standuply slack bot which brings /voice slash command. Then you just type /voice in a channel or in a DM with a person to send a voice message in a corresponding place. 💽 Where are recordings stored? We connect to your Google account and create a private video channel on Youtube for your account. All your recordings are stored there, and you have the full control. Also having them in a private video channel means nobody will see them unless you share the link to the message. 💵 How much does it cost? At the moment voice messages are the part of the free plan at Standuply. All you need is to have the bot installed on your team. 🗣️ Can I use voice messages for standup meetings? It's a paid feature, though. See details at https://standuply.com/pricing We're looking to having your feedback and suggestions. Warm welcome from Standuply team.
Joe
I admire this workaround but it's so obvious that people are crying out for Native voice recording/snippets in Slack.
Alex Kistenev
Maker
@itsjoeturner yeah, maybe our feature within Standuply bot will force them to ship it faster
G G
Old news, Slack is now as exciting as Microsoft Word. Next!
Alex Kistenev
Maker
@androidlove so what are all the cool kids using now?
G G
@sprinter using Slack does not make one cool. Just as using Microsoft Word does not make you and old school hipster.
Ajay Goel
FYI, Amazon's speech transcription API was released to the public just today. https://aws.amazon.com/transcribe/
Vincent Loi
Interesting - does it support replying to voice messages in threads? I assume a lot of users will not want their channels spammed. Also would there be a better way to store audio? Not sure on the technical side of using Slackbots but using YouTube for just audio seems a bit over-do. Would definitely give this a try later :)
Artem Borodin
Maker
@vincentloi1204 yep, it supports the threads...so everything is great with this. About storing the records...we hope that Slack will add other providers that can play records directly in Slack without leaving it, but for now, it seems impossible, we contacted Slack and they aren't going to extend the list of supported providers...wait...maybe they don't do it because want to release the native feature...
Chris

This is simple, and extremely useful. I hope the Slack guys will offer you a lot of money for this :)

Pros:

Extremely useful idea

Cons:

Slack might copy this

Mark C. Webster
This is great, congrats on the launch. Will be interesting to see what the average length of these clips will be, and what the core use-case is (like, are people sending long clips to save themselves from typing, or short clips via voice to just add more personality). Good stuff.
Veronica Bekker
I like Slack products so much
Przemysław Szczepaniak
Will I still need Skype if I convince my other contacts to join Slack Voice? I was wondering if that would be an ultimate tool and I won't need to use more than just one app :).
Ivan Braun

Love it. We need mores tools like this: simple apps, not subscription services

Pros:

Works! Free

Cons:

support for the chats with 2+ people

Boris Khodorkovsky

The /voice command is working fine but on iOS the recording takes place in the browser, and Safari is unsupported by the app.

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Very promising app.

Cons:

Does not work on iOS Slack — Safari is not a supported browser.

Oleg Babakov