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Echo — Instant voice messenger with speech-to-text for remote teams
Echo is built by a fully-remote team for teams working remotely and is designed to compliment existing communication tools. You no longer need to choose between typing everything you have to say and “jumping on a quick call” — Echo fits right between the two.
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@ejsnowdon @aaronoleary this is exactly what we had in mind building it and exactly how we are using it. glad to hear we're on the right track ;) Please let us know how it goes!
Is your goal to target internal teams only? A lot of ppl use voice messaging for client side interaction but downloading and using a recurring cost tool is too much for most clients. Will you dabble in the market of consultants and coaches with client side?
@iamroguelondon yes — aware of that market and looked at it. Right now our focus is internal teams. We know how to serve that market well and that's simply what we've chosen to start with. Functionally, we can already support external/guest users, cross-workspace bridges etc (Echo was built with Slack usage paradigms/concepts in mind to align well if you team is already using Slack) but internal teams is the only piece of the puzzle we consider ready enough to be launched.
With that said, if you are a part of the team who would use such functionality please reach out to k@eo.chat and we'll be happy to work with you and your team while improving those features.
Thank you @kevin! And hello everyone. Excited to share this with you and hear your feedback once you give it a try. We built Echo for ourselves and been using and building it for a couple of months now.
Few things I wanted to share:
- Everything is free through the end of the year. We're after satisfied users and we'd like to offer you an opportunity to give it a try without figuring out if it's in your budget.
- We're here to hear. Reach out to hello@eo.chat and we'll be happy to build based on your feedback.
- We focused on creating a tool for your conversations to happen naturally, feel real, and make sure you're in control.
- Team Sync and Team Async both find Echo useful. Our team is both — some of us are in the same timezone and some are across the world. Let us know if you feel like we missed something.
I'm here if you have questions!
@kensavage Ken, it's both - you could create channels/groups and talk to many people at once
@osalabs @kensavage We built it with Slack in mind and with similar concepts — workspaces for separate teams, one to one, public and private channels.
Apple has a built-in speed to text on iPhone/iPad keyboard. I can use it on any chat/note app, and it is pretty good (Example: ). I often use it.
Quick question: What is the advantage of your app to that feature of Apple?
@bbeldagli here's a full list:
English (United States), English (United Kingdom), English (India), English (New Zealand), English (United Arab Emirates), English (Australia), English (Ireland), English (Canada), English (Philippines), English (Indonesia), English (South Africa), English (Saudi Arabia), English (Singapore), Українська, Português (Portugal), Português (Brasil), Русский, Hrvatski (Hrvatska), Nederlands (België), Nederlands (Nederland), norsk bokmål (Norge), Español (Estados Unidos), Español (Latinoamérica), Español (Colombia), Español (México), Español (Chile), Español (España), català (Espanya), Italiano (Svizzera), Italiano (Italia), français (Belgique), Indonesia (Indonesia), 日本語（日本, Deutsch (Deutschland), Deutsch (Schweiz), Deutsch (Österreich), Français (Canada), Français (Suisse), Français (France), 中文（中国大陆）, ไทย (ไทย), Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα), हिन्दी (भारत, TRANSLIT), 中文（台灣）, العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية), हिन्दी (भारत), 中文（香港）, Türkçe (Türkiye), Bahasa Melayu (Malaysia), 粤语 (中国大陆), čeština (Česko), Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam), dansk (Danmark), svenska (Sverige), slovenčina (Slovensko), Polski (Polska), Hindi (Latin), română (România), 한국어(대한민국), Suomi, עברית (ישראל), 上海话（中国大陆）, Magyar (Magyarország)
Great idea! Tried it during a closed beta (thanks for the invite). Any plans for iOS version?
@peter_bondarevsky thank you Peter :) I'll put it this way — I have an iOS version on my phone but it's not ready yet. We're working on it.
@peter_bondarevsky iOS version is currently under intensive development. Coming soon.
Love this! I literally had the exact same idea floating around in my head for a while, after corona struck. Would like the ability to have the chat heads dock to the side of the screen, so users don't have to manually switch to the app to use it. :)
@paul_nylund thanks for the feedback Paul! We definitely work on interface improvements
@paul_nylund you know we had this at Yac for awhile and most users hated it. Designers found it always in the way and developers didn’t want it floating over their code. We ended up removing the feature
@paul_nylund hi Paul, and thanks for the feedback. We did explore a few of those options but none ended up in the version we released since none of those were polished enough. As Justin mentioned below it's something that's difficult to get right but we think we have an idea and we will ship that in the future once we believe it's ready.
@tatsiana_gavrilova It's a pretty long list — as a native app we support all the languages Apple speech recognition supports - including Russian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, German, French, Chinese, Hindi etc.
Looks awesome.
One note -- a short video demo of the product on your website would be helpful.
@kyryl Why not both? :) A short demo/explainer video on the homepage, and a longer more detailed demo on the Features or Help page perhaps.
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