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[Eager Beaver]

Anyone up for practicing idioms in a text chat tonight?

[FPlay]

Anyone up for practicing idioms in a text chat tonight?

what chat?

[Eager Beaver]

what chat?

I will create one on gavenkoa’s discord server if someone else is interested.

[FPlay]

I'm interested.

[Eager Beaver]

FPlay, great! 9 pm Moscow time?

[gavenkoa]

над которым обычно работает не один десяток человек

https://dic.1963.ru/?s=Игорь+Мостицкий - переводчик, наклепавший множество словарей. Много в печати на бумаге!

[gavenkoa]

FPlay, great! 9 pm Moscow time?

I'll try to see how far behind I am ))

[FPlay]

9 pm Moscow time?

OK

[QwestDay]

Eager Beaver, I'm in; until 22.

[gavenkoa]

Eager Beaver, I'm in; until 22.

FYI an invitation link to join the server: https://discord.gg/KERQfhN

[Eager Beaver]

FPlay, QwestDay, gavenkoa,
Thanks for joining in, guys. It was nice to finally put voices to nicknames.))

[FPlay]

Eager Beaver, Thank you!

[gavenkoa]

Thanks for joining in, guys

Regarding sound quality I'd say that [mention]FPlay[/mention] sounds absolutely the same in Zymbronia's Skype meeting. He can adjust quality a bit as he done it today.

But generally it is difficult to hear him.

Many participants of [mention]zymbronia[/mention] club have low quality equipment. There is a choice - to suffer or to leave )). I am staying to practice.

I put my headphones on. That way I can hear better. I'll buy a directional microphone if I find trusted recommendation for one with a good side noise reduction.

[mention]FPlay[/mention], I'll record you and myself in the next class (Skype has button to do that, providing file to download by everyone). Self calling test shows that my equipment is not nice ((

An unshielded cable to headset microphone picks 50Hz of a flat's wiring as a constant static noise. Built-in microphone is extremely sensitive and take noise from the street.

[FPlay]

I'll record you and myself in the next class (Skype has button to do that, providing file to download by everyone).

What do you mean "providing file to download by everyone"? By everyone in the group or everyone in the world? I kinda object to the second option. )

[gavenkoa]

in the group

And of cause everything is logged to FBI ))

It is common practice in business apps to share recording among all participants.

To avoid legal suite every product for mass market notify all parts about active recording so no one can make advantage of others.

Spyware is another topic ))

I set VoiceMeeter and VirtualCable to redirect sound from apps to recording software as I practicing pronunciation and want to capture my voice and native original in the same recording, so evaluation of my performance is just listening to a single track. Theoretically I can push "record" button and it would be secretly.

I remember Yety suggested to use an extra phone to record own voice and origins from laptop. Unfortunately this solution produces a low quality recording, not the best for pronunciation training.

[Yety]

Yety suggested to use

Nope. Yety suggested using.=)
So what you should remember is Yety suggesting using.=))

[VictorB]

gavenkoa,

To avoid legal suite

A lawsuit?

[Eager Beaver]

I'll buy a directional microphone if I find trusted recommendation for one with a good side noise reduction.

Actually, I could hear you quite well most of the time. There was no ambient noise whatsoever.

[Eager Beaver]

FPlay, thanks for the link to rev.com - I didn't know they have a whole library of transcripts!

[gavenkoa]

There was no ambient noise whatsoever

I tried Skype "self test" and I can hear it when I am in headphones.

Another problem is voice level (loudness) - integrated sound cards / Operation System driver/mixer settings, microphone hardware - too many components are involved to deliver quality sound. And there is another problem is sitting between a keyboard and a char ))

[Opt]

Наушники средней ценовой категории с опцией Active Noise Cancelling решают все эти технические вопросы.

[gavenkoa]

Наушники средней ценовой категории с опцией Active Noise Cancelling решают все эти технические вопросы.

ABSOLUTELY WRONG.

Active Noise Cancelling is targeting low freq only!

AND WE ARE SPEAKING ABOUT MICROPHONES!!!!!!

Have I CAPSLOCKED enough for you? ))

[gavenkoa]

There are mics with a noise reduction using electronic appliance.

The quality of products varies.

A general customer market has pure quality solutions.

An active noise reduction - is a marketing bullshit justifying +100$ to price (for addition a chip with cost of 20cents).

[QwestDay]

Folks, I found out that I misinterpreted phrase "cold turkey" because there is an expression "talk turkey", which means:

to discuss something in a direct way without avoiding difficult issues (US informal) - Few politicians are willing to talk turkey about immigration.

[Michelangelo]

QwestDay, why didn't you look it up in a dictionary?