Does anyone following me have the audio tweets feature? I'm confused whether it is still in testing or not...it's remarkably hard to get any clear information on this
Looks like a nobody so far then. But some people clearly do have this feature. I hope they roll Twitter out to everybody soon/ eventually. It'd be be fun to hear people's voices, even if most folks will hate the sound of their own, ha
...[enters trivia mode] the reason a lot of us dislike the sound of our own voices if we hear them on recordings is that when we hear ourselves speak, we are not hearing ourselves directly. Instead we are hearing sound waves passing through our jaw bones & up to our ear canals
...Clearly this modulation doesn't occur we listen to other people, so our own voices always sound distinct to us, and when we hear recordings the difference between our perceived voices and our actual ones can be quite jarring
...Further research suggests the 'tweet with your voice' audio clips feature has not yet rolled out because of complaints from disability advocates that audio tweets would be inaccessible to them. And that's fair enough really. But the technology for auto generating [1/2]
...captions clearly exists (see YouTube) so I'm optimistic the blue bird app will get their act together, and hopefully sooner rather than later. Yes, I want audio tweets: the idea has caught my imagination 🗣 [2/2]
....Footnote: but there is no discernible pattern as to who has audio tweets at present and who doesn't. Perhaps it is completely random
...Maybe I should tag @Twitter in on this thread, ha
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