Voice chat?

I send out the music at full volume and use SL voice on the extremely and increasingly rare occasions that I do vocalise what I want to communicate. This gives people the chance to mute me and keeps the music unbroken.

Showing again the point from when voice was proposed that it would split the SL community into 2 communities.

There is some grey areas. I know a pub where voice is the norm. This is due to most of the patrons being physically disabled.

At another club, both blend together easily, one particular person voice and writing what they say and people being patient if people show that they are typing to not run all over them with voice.

Okay, this shows that they do exist but how do I find the others? Anyone mind dropping me an LM or two to the ones that are really good? I would love to see a --voiced-- Shakespearian play in Second Life.

Any play between 04:00 - 12:00 SLT this Sunday would be -perfect-. Otherwise, I would like to see at least one play at any other time or day.

Have you checked out The Globe theater?

Could you expand on this Melita?

That's a fair statement. But I am jugmental. I just never find a need - I type superfast, I like my music on. I dont like that feeling someone is watching me. In real I live in a secure community with my own alarm system etc. Voice just seems to invade that.

Cam is out of the question. I cant see how anyone in sl would wish to cam unless they were "soliciting" in real.

Voice in certain circumstances is simply another expression for cheap phone sex. I prefer the more recreational aspects of sl in terms of sex. A quick pick up, home to Zindra or his place and then "see ya" no strings attached.

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I don't know if public voice gives anything away... but I do have voice set so only friends (ie people I can trust (and only "real" friends are on my friends list)) can initiate private voice.

Wow thanks Luna ... I don't know how I missed that first time around.

By definition we all think faster than we type. After all you cannot even begin to type the words before the thoughts form. The same holds true for speaking.

I think what you mean is that some can speak faster than they can type. That is true for almost everyone including a person that can type very fast. I can type pretty fast but it is never going to be faster than I speak. What I do find though is that: 1) what I type generally comes out as more coherent and understandable than what I voice and, 2) when I type it gives me the opportunity to reflect on what I am about send in local chat or IM which in turn has prevented me from saying things that I probably would have regretted saying to greater or lesser degrees depending on the circumstances.

We can speak faster than we can type. BUT, we can read faster than we can listen. And when you have multiple people in a conversation, the bottleneck is input, not output... multiple people can type at a time without conflict, but only one person can speak at a given moment. And once you have MORE than a few people the bottleneck becomes managing the bottleneck. Taking turns, nicely, so as to speak. Either you have to establish rules of order, or you have the loudest and most outspoken (think about that word) taking control.

The same problem does eventually come up for written communication, too, but not until many times as many people are involved.

I would like to see my mum up against some morons, who, "Umm ... well ... you know ... the Sun is like round and stuff," and I better add George Carlin's quote to this, "Remember, half the people you meet in life are below average."
Okay, given that is was only a 120 MHz processor with 128 MB of RAM, Win 98, Word 97 and she didn't have to think about what she was typing because she was copying pages of printed documents into the PC ... and she had forgotten the kettle the first time it boiled.
I was still blown away when she typed furiously, went to make a cup of tea and the words were still flying on to the screen line by line when she got back. That is a long time for the buffers and the PC to lag behind displaying them.

Consider if they made gloves, which read our nerve impulses so we don't even have to do something as slow as actually flex the muscles in our hands?

Agreed/ Thing I REALLY despise is when clubs leave voice ON and people are using it when either 1. a live DJ is spinning or 2. heaven forbid a live performer is singing. This is just plain disrespectful.

Mine is ALWAYS off due to lag anyway and if I am in a club where everyone uses voice and not chat, I leave.

We use voice for 1 time a year. For reading aloud Burns's poems for Burns Night supper in SL.