0579 – Why Video Calls Lead To Vocal Loading

2022.08.02– 0579 – Why Video Calls Lead To Vocal Loading

But then neither is the whole tech and protocol of video-conferencing:

• Talking to people we can see and hear but are not physically with and so can’t see their full body language
• The now-disrupted turn-taking rhythm we are used to in a conversation and working out the protocol if several people talk at once and how to give way
• How we can do work, school, church, a quiz with friends, talk with grandparents or the doctor … all while sitting in the same chair at the same desk, sometimes switching from one to another without even getting out of the chair. And so, as everything is in the same format, a meeting with friends can feel like work. Yes, you're talking about fun things, but you've set it up just like a meeting.
• Coping with audio delays, buffering, automatic mic cut-outs, extra noises for children and pets, unmuted mics and broken feeds
• Friends and colleagues who don’t join on time, don’t know how to mute and unmute, or turn video on and off, or send messages on the current video-chat platform of choice.

All of which adds to mental tension, skeletal stress and vocal loading - meaning you are less ‘communicatively confident’. 

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