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A year into working from home, the number of Zoom meetings that should be phone calls is only rising. And our Zoom-avoidance strategies have not gotten any better. We may have toyed with blaming power outages and broken internet connections, and some may have resorted to fake freezing when called upon on a video chat. (Mouth agape, mid-sentence is a nice touch.)
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A new tool, Zoom Escaper, takes the pressure off your acting and stillness skills. Following a few simple steps, you can sabotage your own audio streams, “making your presence unbearable to others,” according to the description by the developer, Sam Lavigne. It creates fake, noisy background distractions that sound like they’re emanating from your living space. There’d be little realistic recourse on the part of your colleagues other than excusing you from the meeting to shut off the terrible din and deal with the perceived i
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Are you absolutely tired of spending hours each week on Zoom calls? Do you wish for some sort of way to cause enough acceptable chaos to bring them to a swift end? If so, this website is the answer to your problem. The Zoom Escaper lets you add weird and downright awkward noises to your video calls in hopes of ending your endless meetings.
The website, which we learned about at Design Taxi, is the brainchild of artist Sam Lavigne. Users can pick from an array of sounds including a crying baby, construction, and the ever-annoying echo. You can go back and forth between noises and crank up the volume for extra emphasis. And maybe, just maybe, they will be terrible enough to set you free from Zoom. There is an app for the Zoom Escaper but it’s not a requirement to use it. The only thing you will need to do is install the VB-Audio plugin on your computer to put the sound effects into your meeting.
Zoom Escaper will let users add crying baby, dogs barking sound to help escape meetings
A new web widget that goes by the name Zoom Escaper has been introduced by artistSam Lavigne, which lets users choose from a variety of fake audio effects to sabotage your zoom meeting.
Ankita Chakravarti | March 16, 2021 | Updated 12:39 IST
Highlights Zoom Escapers has been introduced by artist Sam Lavigne.
The app lets users choose from a variety of fake audio effects to sabotage their zoom meeting.
Users can choose the sound of a dog barking incessantly, construction noises, a child crying his eyes out, or any other chaotic audio.
Zoom Escaper Can Help You Drop Out of a Meeting With Sound Effects of Bad Connection, Crying Baby, More
Zoom Escaper Can Help You Drop Out of a Meeting With Sound Effects of Bad Connection, Crying Baby, More
Zoom Escaper offers a wide array of sound effects, including Construction, Dogs, and more. By Satvik Khare | Updated: 16 March 2021 15:49 IST
Photo Credit: Sam Lavigne
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Zoom Escaper is created by artist Sam Lavigne
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Zoom Escaper offers fun ways of escaping a meeting on the platform by playing sound effects of choppy connection, baby crying, and more. Created by artist Sam Lavigne, the Web widget lets you choose from a wide variety of sound effects (read: excuses) that will help you escape a meeting without raising suspicion among other attendees at the meeting. The sound effects are designed to make others on the call believe you may have actual network issues o
There’s no need to come up with excuses anymore as there’s a web widget out there called 'Zoom Escaper' that lets you ‘escape’ meetings on Zoom using a slew of fake audio effects.