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Got an error when posting the first 2 tries. Hopefully this didn't post multiple times.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If my memory serves correctly, this is the thing that basically plays everything you say back to you with a 200ms delay that instantly makes you feel awkward.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh god. If I hear myself through people's speakers when on a call I cannot continue. It's super effective at making me confused and distracted. That's awful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yes! I was wondering if I'd find this video here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Was just gonna link that.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah, a zoom emulator. Why didn't you say?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

....ab....ou...ayb...oo....trousers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

...ear me now?

I'll just share my-...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm guessing it was that, which won an IgNobel prize like a decade ago.

If you've ever worked in a call center, this kind of thing happens from time to time. After a couple times you learn to ignore it and push through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Whenever I run into that problem I just pull the earpiece away from my ear when I’m talking. I can still kind of hear it, but it’s much easier to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I remember seeing this effect on QI. They tried it on Alan first and he just powered through and managed to keep talking!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alan is a very special individual, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, it can't. It can disturb the speech of some people.

A bit akin to those "drunk glasses" or something. No, they don't actually make you drunk, and this doesn't actually prevent you from speaking. It's just a matter of getting used to slightly weird thing.

When I worked in taxi dispatch I *had" to get used to this because the phone lines would pretty often just have the maon features of this "gun" as a fault of some sort.

It's weird hearing your voice with a tiny delay, but you get used to it.

Edit also it's like 15 years old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This thing makes it so you can't hear yourself, though. So it has that added difficulty.

[–] arandomthought 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The whole country of japan invented this? That must have been a huge group project

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I bet it is like highschool where one guy did all the work and everyone else took credit...

or having a job.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My old boss's phone would echo back at you when you'd try to talk. Reeeeally fun trying to explain a fuckup over the phone with him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just don't listen when you talk. That will also stop them from stopping you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"Hey boss sorry I just LA LA LA LA LA...."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Got an error when posting the first 2 tries.

You got hit by the post jammer

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Why is Asian Ted “Theodore” Logan pointing this at me?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Insert xkcd "remember, so does a handgun" here

[–] Trigger2_2000 2 points 2 months ago

Say what one more time!

[–] CCF_100 2 points 2 months ago

Point it at all the transphobes lol