Voice awareness for non-voice users

Was the unibomber the only one that wasn't described as a "polite, quiet"? Great I can't recall the moniker correctly.

I completely missed this before, sorry about that. I spent the time to sit and watch the video and was extremely affected by it. Getting ready to watch the others that were posted as a response. This is a true case where you could see much about the person through text. Thank you for posting it.

You miss my point.

I don't WANT to use speakers. If I use speakers, everyone around me has to listen to them. This is rude, especially since I don't particularly want to listen to them.

I just don't want to hear it. I listen to people all day.

I don't object to speaking. I object to not knowing whether those around me are using voice.

If voice interests me, I'll enable voice. Right now, it doesn't interest me.

I simply think those who don't use voice should have a visual cue as to whether a conversation is going on around them, similar to the typing animation. It would be a simple thing to implement, and there's no reason not to extend this courtesy.

You know, considering how these threads always turn out the same way, I'm going to have to agree with you. I'm outta this one.

I'm not sure if I Godwinned this thread yet, but they say Hitler was polite and quiet, most of the time.

I Godwined it after your stipend comment. I made that Kelly's Heroes reference.

That was this thread wasn't it?


I also called Mike a grammar Nazi.

So now its triple Godwined.

I had not heard that.

I think this was the thread where I saw "grammar Nazi" though.

I think someone already tried Godwinning a couple of pages back. o.O

Which is to say you never can know anything, and you will never know if the choices you made were the right ones or not.

Ack. Sartre-esque at best!

Without reading all 28 pages… O.o
Did the OP get her answer?
Which is…Enable voice and turn down the Voice volume.
She will see the green waves over people who are talking and can also us the Near Me option in the History window to see who around her has voice enabled.
Thank you….carry on

I'm kinda giving up hope now. (T_T)

Once I'm back home... I'll do just that. I'll turn on voice, then mute it. I'll see if it leads to more or less discomfort to the people around me... (<_< .... (>_> .... (^_^)

I'm afraid expectations will change once I'm on muted voice... Wearing the dot will fool people into thinking I'm listening. I'll be sure to disappoint and that's a bad thing. If it gets too bad, I'm shutting out voice for good and giving up on trying to develop THAT social skill in SL. (>.<

Sorry if I'm sounding brash about it. Please don't hit the kid...(^_^)y And please vote on the Jira: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-1795 . I believe it's a real bug and needs attention. If everyone turned on voice and nobody listened; Why would anyone bother to talk?

Imnotgoing, I still don't understand why you wouldn't want to listen. It's not eavesdropping, the people who are in voice chat KNOW it's public, and they expect people to be listening.

Just mute your mic, if you don't want to talk. Leave your ears on.

Fwiw, nowadays I often turn on voice when I go wandering on the grid, without intention to talk, just to see if I hear ANYONE. (I don't bother to mute the mike, I leave it on push-to-talk and then just never push).

I even did this lately going to the ETD sale.

The only place I ever hear anybody is in newbie help areas, and that is just idle chatter, if not outright griefing!

Where DO people use voice, anyway? Other than with their own friends, which I do occasionally do with a couple of folks who prefer voice.

Even the Lindens don't seem to use it much.

And rather depressing now that I think about it!
Of course, ignorance is sometimes bliss.

Nope. People will treat you pretty much the same tbh.

Seriously. And if you type back and they are rude then you've got an automatic asshat detector.

I had my voice on at the Forum. Not last night though. Didn't hear anyone talking, though I think I heard a watch alarm go off at one point.

Ignorance IS bliss but sadly rarely the comfort of the intelligent, who see the sordid truth regardless.

That being said ... IT'S FRIDAY YAY!!!!

Please don't ask me to explain. It's not a matter of want. It's a psychological condition that I'm not proud of. I kinda spelled it out in my earlier posts.

Sorry.
I'm not so worried about how I'm treated. Actually I'm amazed at how well I'm treated by people in SL. I really don't have a single real horror story. My mute list has only ever had one name... And I deleted it last month.

I just want to be accommodating to people who chose to communicate in a way that I'm unable to function in. I want to have the opportunity to peacefully walk away when I don't fit in.

Crud... you all get me talking all serious and stuff... (>o<

Excuse me for bumping my ancient thread... But... Without Mods, I'm sure it isn't the worst thing to happen on this forum lately. (^_^)

This past week I've been having an epiphany with my ability to tolerate voices. These past two days have been heart-pounding events of me being able to function socially in ways I've never been before. It was exciting, scary, and fun to hear the voices of some of the people I known these past 3 months. The range of accents and characters was more diverse than I expected.

My SL social life has now completely exceeded my RL. I apologize if I'm being annoying about it, I'm just so excited! \(^_^)/ I hope I'm not moving to fast into a crash-and-burn. I'm working on the courage to plug the mic in. I'm sure it's going to take a few tries on my part to adjust to being that outward. And I'm sure most people will want to cut their ears off after hearing me speak. Even my family says I have an English dialect of my own... (=_=)

Kudos++ to Linden Labs for giving a wreck like me a social outlet!!!!! \(^_^)/ ... \(^_^)/

Wow!

Hello Imnotgoing, I don't know you or any of the details of issues you may have been dealing with. (I admit only reading the begining and end of this thread.)

I just wanted to say thanks and no excuses needed for one of the most positive and hopeful post I've seen in the forums in quite awhile.

I keep it on, as I do have some customers that voice rather than type. But in social settings I never use it. And I don't voice to the customer, merely listen.

I tried it in the beginning, and frankly in my opinion it's not good. Too much mouth juice noise for me. So now while I leave it on I do occasionally have to mute the person who can't be bothered to set their mic to "push to talk" or who thinks it's cute to blare their home music over their mic.

That said, the white dot over my head doesn't seem to make any difference really, but I don't hang out with a lot of voice users.

Amen! I agree with you Brenda.

I'm very happy for you Imnotgoing. That is great news!

While my issues were not exactly the same, I also had some social anxiety issues that voice helped me with. I had a little bit of a head start because I started using voice in There.com for a few years ago, but I had a similar experience.

Take your time and talk when you feel comfortable. I only typed for a good while before I started to talk. Heh heh, something a little funny though - I felt more comfortable talking if my avatar had a drink in his hand. lol I don't know why, but it helped me.

Take care Imnotgoing and all the best!