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Skype Is Evaluating Adding Typing Suppression Feature
An anonymous reader writes "At a press event in Stockholm, Sweden today, Skype confirmed it is evaluating the addition of a typing suppression feature to its desktop clients that will automatically filter the sound of your fingers hitting the keys. Unfortunately, the Microsoft-owned company isn't ready to ship the functionality yet, despite it being available in the company's enterprise-focused Lync tool."
The ability to manually transfer calls to other phone numbers and skype contacts
we are going touch and maybe voice control so if you are not enterprise then we don't really give a dam about the keyboard.
Let's see how it deals with my IBM model M keyboard
The sound of typing tells you that the person on the other end is doing something. e.g. you call someone up with a question. They say "hold on, let me look that up". In this case, intermittant typing lets you know that something is happening. It's a lot better than dead air.
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Being able to hear the sounds of the keyboards allows us to accurately identify your typing patterns and tie the passwords used into the other metadata.
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It'll just lead to a lot of head-scratching and "can you repeat that" over weird, distorted-for-no-apparent-reason audio. At least I hope it works better than Google+'s "looks like you're typing, so I auto-muted you" feature, that one was a disaster for collaboration since the speaker couldn't go anywhere near the keyboard while talking. At least there's a way to say "don't mute me" now.
And mouses too.
alternative to Skype video calling? can someone please point out a working client/server app?
And at the same time, the key-recognized and processed typing can directly be sent to the NSA.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Where's my Skype Suppression Keyboard? Preferably one that can do it in an area-denial fashion.
Unfortunately, the Microsoft-owned company isn't ready to ship the functionality yet, despite it being available in the company's enterprise-focused Lync tool.
And we all know that once it works with one product, it's just a matter of waving the code over all the other products in the company's portfolio to make it work everywhere.
Skype's instant messaging doesn't work half of the time already?
This. Many times I have been "hosting" a group call and my friends have been forced to call each other back manually if I have to leave.
Seriously, they have to develop a filter for the people that you are talking to, while transmitting those sounds directly to the NSA for storage.
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They should focus on making it actually not suck ass, especially on mobile. I can't tell you the number of times it has failed to send and/or receive messages on mobile. Its file transfer system is also total garbage. Sadly microsoft messenger actually worked a lot better than this.
Why are they working on this kind of crap when they could instead be working to give us back the image sharing we used to have in MSN Messenger? I'm getting fed up of having to mess around with file transfers when all someone wants to do is show me their screenshot of an unexpected error for my diagnosis.
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How about maybe clean up my contacts list?
How about you make it easier to search for people you know. Here's a fun experiment. Try setting up a relative on skype and then importing their contacts.. they don't use facebook? Well I'm glad they use mail.ru and rediff oh she's a bit more obscure than that.. well under "other" you can import contacts from 163.com and Fastmail.
I'm the only person I've even known IRL who has ever used Fastmail. I loved the interface but the gmail storage space forced me out years ago. But it seems to me that unless you're an old russian lady you have no way to import contacts unless you know their information. How well does your aunt know her address book? Mine tried searching for contacts and ended up just creating contact lists named after her emails.
Wish there was a way to better organize contacts so having a bunch of phone numbers didn't just completely fill up the list. Kinda want my offline contacts rated above phone numbers which are never "online".
Oh but no.. by all means spend all your time erasing the typing sound. That's obviously more important than the fact that casual users can't navigate the Skype UI.
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WebRTC is the future of real-time video. As an example, check out vLine link.
I'd rather them work on an actual, functional background noise filter. Or at least filter out the noise of a loud laptop fan.
Each iteration of Skype adds more features I don't want, makes the fundamental features harder to use, and bogs down the host device even further. It would behoove Skype to bear in mind that their revenue comes from people who pay for the VOIP capabilities and focus on making sure that actually works well. Also, don't make it so damn difficult to find the international rates.
Skype has been able to filter out the sound of cats purring for a long time now. I tell you that it's really useful when you're sitting in your island lair, plotting world domination, and issuing orders to your minions via Skype. The sound of the purring kitty on your lap is completely filtered by Skype. So when a suave British spy tries to infiltrate you, the minions can hear your voice loud and clear. I tell you, this is a great win for evil overlords everywhere.
I'm stuck on skype v4.0.0.8 because the latest linux skype client crashes literally every minute or so. And I'm not the only one who has this problem.
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It's the one that's baked into the Nokia N9 (and sometimes I use the one baked into the N900). Hilariously, it's integrated into the OS at such a level that it acts like normal phone calls, and in that and other ways it's more seamless of an experience than on the platform Nokia now uses which Microsoft actually develops. Oh, the irony layered upon irony there . . .
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