Voice Inside

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Voice Inside

• Keith Weiner
• DiamondWare
• keith_at_dw.com
• Booth 502

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Early PC Video

• Like a dancing bear
• Dont focus on the fact that its clumsy
• Wow, its a bear and its dancing!
• Early VoIP

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Market Reality

• Target PSTN
• Customer assumes low latency, high QoS
• Domestic long distance cheap
• Rate arbitrage opportunity gone
• VoIP can squeeze other costs
• Eliminate boxes/wires, easier provisioning
• Cost savings not a big value proposition

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Value Proposition

• Better audio, i.e. wideband
• Why not CD-quality conferencing?
• Previously impossible features
• 3D voice positioning
• Voice colorizing
• Presence and availability information

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Natural Communications

• Always on
• Text escalates to voice to conferencing
• Add people to a conference mid-way
• Private subconferences

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Audio Demos

• PSTN audio
• 3D audio

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Voice

• The most natural way to communicate
• But not usually an end (or app) to itself
• Some activities involving voice
• Learning, networking, trade shows
• Collaboration, socializing, games
• Converged systems voice just a component

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Virtual Classroom

• Video
• Teacher always, students sometimes
• Shared whiteboard and Powerpoint
• Word, Excel, Visual Studio, etc.
• Private discussions among students

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Social Networking

• 6 Degrees, LinkedIn, etc.
• Opportunistic conference calls
• Must be easy, natural, spontaneous
• Speed of email can miss the window

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Trade Shows

• Why fly to Santa Clara?
• Combines learning and networking
• Unique features to help people mix
• Virtual rooms
• Lunch tables
• Software matchmaking
• E.g. developer channel partner

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Collaboration

• Team members known to each other
• Multiple video streams
• Shared whiteboards
• Save and restore later
• 3D positions make speaker ID easier

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Socializing

• Large conference sizes, if cost is low
• Voice disguise and avatars
• Karaoke
• Easy to break off into sub-groups

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Games

• Massively Multiplayer Online Games
• One contiguous audio world
• Virtual 3D positions
• Game semantics
• Socializing, teamwork, espionage, etc.

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Voice Inside

• In each app, voice plays a role
• Greater in some than in others
• Games
• Enables or enhances many applications
• Voice Inside
• Will take for granted, if its good