Woices

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Current revision as of 10:51, 28 January 2011

Main purpose

The main purpose of this web application is to facilitate the creation of audioguides.

Woices is a web application where anyone can completely free create, listen and share geolocalized audioguides.

Useful information

The aim of this application is to help people to share echoes about every visited location on earth. Audio podcast/guide can be created in three simple steps:

• You have to choose where you want your echo to be listened
• Then you have to give a name, short description and language of your echo. There is also an option to specify tags that will help other users to find echo.
• In this step you can record new or upload existig audio file. Supported file formats are MP3, WAV, AMR and AWB. Audio file have to be shorter than 10 minutes and smaller than 10 MB.

Pros & Cons

Pros

• Ease of use
• It can be used for the tourism promotion
• Subscription to latest echoes, walks, favorites and comments

Cons

• -

Reference

• http://www.woices.com/

Tool accessibility test (28 July 2010)

Server Response Time test performed from Seattle, WA / Munich, Germany / Brisbane, Australia : 2.145 sec / 0.845 sec / 3.919 sec

Server Response Time Scale: Less than 0,1 = Optimal; 0,1 - 1 = Acceptable; 1 - 4 = Noticable but tolerable delay; 4 - 8 = Bearly tolerant delay

This tool has help included on the tool's webpage (link): http://woices.com/help

There is no possiblity of changing the type or size of fonts in the tool (it can be done only as a browser functionality).