It will be taking a lot of

jansky — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:03:26 +0000

It will be taking a lot of time to load your site if your using voice.. What do you guys think? I still have doubts though..

ms2134 wrote: I believe

decibel.places — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:43:49 +0000

ms2134 wrote:

I believe that many people tend to have voices on their site

I was at a conference recently at which the keynote speaker announced that he has six voices in his head!

So do we really want to add some uncontrolled?

you've heard it b4 - you

decibel.places — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:42:07 +0000

you've heard it b4 - you look A LOT like Mike Myers!

I would say that having an

msharp516 — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:10:04 +0000

I would say that having an option is much better than having the audio come on automatically. I too listen to music when I am on my computer, and if there is a conflict of two sounds competing, I usually turn on off the site (close it) first before I adjust my music volume, it's just second nature that the extra noise is "interrupting" the music I have going already.

If you look at it from a navigation standpoint, when you have the audio come on automatically, you are giving less control of their experience on the site, and they might resent that, or simply go to another site where they do have that control.

I believe that many people

ms2134 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:39:44 +0000

I believe that many people tend to have voices on their site because others have told them that having them there is a great way to allow the customers to know what they are looking at without having to read so much.

The website voices tend to give out main points of the company or site and allows the visitors to understand with slightly more ease.

I must agree with the previous comments, in saying that such voices can be of an annoyance to the visitors.

Even whilst not listening to music; i tend to find that website voices can be a right pain to turn off.

My advice is that if you are going to have voices, use them for naration but make sure that the sound can be optional.

~ Mike

Are people getting "bored"

tomfeen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:50:17 +0000

Are people getting "bored" with reading websites? An audio option would give the non-readers an opportunity to hear the site for as long as their attention span lets them. Actually, I find myself rejecting long winded sites. But, I certainly don't want to hear the sales pitch as soon as I enter the site.

One use of voice would be clicking to have someone read an article to you, or a story to you. Or, to listen to things like the Declaration of Independence from top to bottom.

I find talking web sites

kushty — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:19:20 +0000

I find talking web sites quite annoying actually.

Mmm . as an end-user I'm

HQHost.net — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:50:14 +0000

Mmm . as an end-user I'm wondering how voicing increases the page loading time?

People who turn off cookies

greg — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:51:34 +0000

People who turn off cookies (and usually as well JS) know they did and turn them on when required.

Cookies are used by a large proportion of sites now, especially with 3rd party things going on like ads (Google ads in particular).
I have no issues sending users to a 'sorry' page "You need cookies enabled to use this site".

I guess that was a false

decibel.places — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:33:49 +0000

I guess that was a false alert - seems the sites work fine with JS turned off.

Blocked cookies, though, is a real issue, preventing login and other session cookie managed functions...