“You’re straining to follow the conversation, background noise interrupts, and if two people talk at the same time, the sound cuts out,” complains Voxeet founder Stephane Giraudie as he describes the experience of conference calls. “It can be hard to tell who’s speaking, and that lack of context can make it hard to follow the conversation.”
Giraudie is from France and he found the conference calls between his colleagues in USA and Europe very frustrating. “The quality and functionality of conference calls aren’t much different than they were 10 years ago; we’re planning on changing that.”
Voxeet identified the three most common problems with conference calls: bad sound quality, no easy way to identify speakers, and no mobility. Voxeet wants to radically transform what it calls “the infuriating space of conference calling” by solving those problems. Read more...