Shum or will the short audios replace text posts?

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Hello, I'm co-founder of Shum, app to record and post 1-minute audio notes (Twitter for audio) We have MVP available, but there are few users yet.

So, I want to talk about perspectives of audio sharing in future. Will it be the most proliferated format to express thoughts and share news in your opinion? Or will such format be short videos(Tik-tok) / smth more advanced (like 3D models, short animations, whatever)?

I think audio notes will definitely step up. Reasons: 1) People in big cities spend a lot of time to commute to work from home and back. And cities grow faster than travel speed. The most convenient ways to interact with information on the road - audio, as far as hands in public transport, bike, car are usually occupied. I performed a review among technopark residents, which showed that 8/10 people consume audio content on the road. 2) Voice processing methods are close to advance. People tend to use audio messaging more(from reviews) along with voice assistants. 3) Music streaming services, of course. There is already popular and working business model of consuming audio content on freemium base.

What do you think, what are the obstacles in the way for services which allow to share short audios?

Text is information dense but allows skimming. Audio (and video) are linear. One minute is a short audio or video message. It's a very very very long text. Good luck.

Thank you, think about possible introduction of speech -> text transcription under each voice. It might not be perfect but useful for rapid communication. On the contrary, majority of audio content could be conceived as a background. Text or video require more attention.

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