Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Keeping your email au courant















Frankie "Malcolm" Muniz here looks a little confused, but that’s because he’s having his first whirl at the new talking email system! Ten minutes later he was firing out messages to all his buds, and they were duly impressed and knew he was several degrees cooler than they were.

It’s true, you can now avoid the tedious typing, the endless editing, and the inevitable ridicule of your friends and colleagues as you expose your grammatical ineptitude via old-fashioned email messages. Instead, let your thoughts wander free and untethered. And dare ‘em to spell-check your ass! Your recipient must listen to your message, which arrives as an audio file, forcing him/her to hear every awkward pause, every nuance of your (quite sonorous) voice, whatever it is you’ve opted to blather on about, and any other background noise within 20 feet of you during recording. It’s a marvel of modern technology.

Voice editor allows you to purge your messages of detritus, flatulence, and the rare verbal flub, but little aural tidbits like these keep it real and human, so don’t aim for perfection, by any means. Those of you who are clever enough to impersonate others will have so much fun with this device, it’ll replace your Mr. Microphone, and whatever it is you do with that home karaoke thing that the neighbors keep complaining about. You can even send messages to yourself!

We don’t have to mention how pilot-like and ultra-fab you’ll feel talking into this microphone, do we? Say no more…you’ll be rockin’ the cool. Plaid shirt and fake wood paneling sold separately, and in another decade. Not intended for use as a means of harassment or for practical jokes, although incredibly useful as such, talking email is guaranteed to change your life on at least a minute level. And there’s no way to put a price tag on that.