Tim Davies’ Blog put me onto Voicethread.com. Its a website that captures the voices that surround shared media.
Voicethread is enabling users to create “voicebooks” much the same way a blogger would create a post or a page on a social networking site. While a blog is mostly written, a voicebook gives the distinct benefit of recorded group conversation. Here is a great example of a voicebook. Another example of an “American Idol” voicebook.
Here are some other possible uses of a voicebook:
- Youth groups can have brainstorming sessions about coming events.
- Churches/youth groups can use it for online teaching.
- MySpace users can enhance their profiles and use voicebooks to leave recorded messages for their friends
- Youth people can communicate with distant parents
- Service men and women deployed abroad can read a bed-time story to their children
- Comments posted to blog entries can evolve into an audio debate
“Voicebooks transform any image into a discussion that can be shared not only over the Web, but over time. Like a Tivo for voice conversations, you can contribute whenever you want,” said Ben Papell, Co-Founder of Voicethread.com. “The conversations are more thoughtful, they can be saved forever, and they’re easily shared.”
You can download the introduction to VoiceThread as a word file here from Tim Davies’ Blog.
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Thanks for sharing info on Voicethread. What a great tool.
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