Category: Safe Haven
HI there. Well as I have seen so much voice chat on the internet, i am not able to speak a single word since I think my voice would sound... ugly. Well its so low pitched and i sound bigger for being 13, but I know I am not the only one since I have met some people out there who is as embarrased as me. Any thoughts?
It sounds as if you're shy which there's nothing wrong with being shy. How I got into it is at first I did lots of listening, then I joined in slowly.
Troy
well actually i am shy since I am talking to people I don't even know... but well I think I would do the same thing, but its going to take time... ha ha ha
well Lou, I would've never known you were shy. Funny the things you don't know about people by reading their text messages. No one could accuse me of being shy, but when I first go in a room on a new chat program, I am a bit cautious, because I'm in a new environment, but once somebody starts talking to me, I'm ok.
wonderwoman
I didn't know you were shy either Lou, you just told me you didn't want people to hear your voice. Well just come in and listen and someone'll start talking to you and then answer, don't worry about how you sound, it's all good. You might wanna start with a voice profile, hehe.
Caitlin
ahaha, i did audio profile, I installed skype, I got two contacts... umm, so far, lol just a day
ago, and well its kinda actually cool... lol. Is that enough Caytlin? haha
Well, you're not alone Lou!!! I hate voice chatting too. I feel so scared whenever I go on VT. However, I can talk to people I don't even know over the phone and it doesn't bother me one bit. I thought and I thought about why I feel so uncomfortable and I think I finally came up with the correct answer. A few years ago, before my brother got married, he used to voice chat with these girls who's voices sounded so awful and distorted!!! I hated how it sounded and used to make fun of my brother all the time because he thought the girls looked hot!!! I would say: "How can you think she is hot when she sounds like that???" He told me the reason why she sounded all distorted was because she was talking through a mic. I think that ever since then, I've been wary of talking in to a mic!!! Since I can't hear what I will sound like at the other person's end, I refuse to do it!!! I have talked on the telephone with people whom I have met in person and their voices didn't change when going through the wires so I think that mine doesn't either. Being a singer, I am very particular about how my voice will sound like. Whenever I record something, whether it be a track or an audio profile, I always have to make it perfect!!! If it isn't, I will rerecord it until it is. Another weird thing about me is that when I'm alone, I can listen to my own recordings of me but whenever someone is around, it doesn't matter who, I turn all red and rush to shut it off!!!
*sexy*
hehehe. Well, skype doesn't make you sound distorted, it just makes you robotic, otherwhise lorlover would say so. lol
well when I first started out, I was exclusively a voice chat person, but since my internet connection is stubbornly staying at 28.8 kbps, which means a bit more break ups, text chat is growing on me more and more. Plus, people are getting to be such cliquish microphone hogs, it's getting more and more difficult to talk. Of course, after I've been in a room a half hour or so, someone will belatedly remember there is someone else in the room besides them, and they say, why don't you talk, or don't be so shy. But what can you do, if the people in the room all know each other, have history together, and are talking about a subject you aren't into, or talking about people they all know, and you don't? I think when you go in to a room where there are people, they should be the ones to say something to you first, or initiate conversation with you, instead of them being the ones to expect you to just start talking. If they're talking about something of interest only to them and not to me, I don't like just jumping in and changing the subject. That seems a bit insensitive to me, especially, if it's not my room, I don't have the right to do so, so the only thing I can do is either sit there and tolerate it, or leave, so I do the latter.
wonderwoman
Well. I actually am more in to voice chatting now. *smile* It's really a lot of fun and I don't feel so paranoid about how weird my voice sounds. At first, I didn't want to go on VT but I decided to give it another try. Thanks to Dan, *harp* and Kev *blackbird*, I feel a lot more comfortable with it!!! My mic settings are not so bad, (I only sound like I'm on the underground, or the airport, as Chris, *winter K* puts it!!!) But I am pretty understandable accept when talking to Kev of course!!! He never seems to understand what I'm saying!!! hehehehehehehe But all in all, I love going on VT!!! Skype is another story, however. I just don't like it as much. I guess I like to talk to a lot of people at the same time and like to see the random people that come on which you never have with skype. So everyone, come voice chat with me!!!
*sexy*
hahahahahah I was just rereading this topic and found that I had posted about my dislike of voice chatting almost a whole month ago. It's amazing how much things can change in a month!!!
*sexy*
well, i am seriously thinking about vt. I mean I like chatting with random people but then if it is voice chat they could either make fun of you, or they talk about a subject you don't know and then just because of that you are stupid. Same for asking for new vocabulary words or these ones I do not understand.
Oh no. Louiano. English is my second language as well and sometimes, I have trouble with new vocabulary. I just ask if I don't know it and they tell me what it means. As for subjects I don't know about, I just ask them to explain it and the next time, I will know enough to be included in the conversation. You should give it a try!!! We're all pretty understanding and lots of fun to chat with!!!
*sexy*
umm, doubt comes up again.... ok ok ok.... someday, some day, when the water is fine out there, I will....
well there is hardly anywhere I can voice chat now. I don't like for the people at all anymore, audio tips is practically dead, and I started having serious break up issues with a woman I talked to every week, so I decided to give that up. I upgraded to ventrillo 2.2 so I could get on,
www.vipconduit.com
The site that Jenifers board of directors started on their own, and I can't use ventrillo 2.2. I don't like our place on acb radio much, because there are only 4 rooms, and you can't tell if anyone is in the room before you go in there, which can be rather awkward. Cyberspeaker.net is too unstable, and the cliques from for the people come in there, and if they see someone else in the room before them, they leave, so I'm not voice chatting much these, and there aren't any good text chat programs at all.
wonderwoman
hmm, yes there are....
like what? Mirc has all those bots on it. I couldn't use mirc directly, but I used bofhnetirc, and that wasn't too good, I mean I couldn't find anything to my liking on the irc servers, and when I did find good people, I only came across them once or twice, and that was it.
wonderwoman