Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak?

Re:Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak? by Kiro on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:56PM (#12981468)

Hook up a microphone recording your whole day in extremely bad quality. Then run it through an analyzer and just set a threshold that will pick up when you actually speak.

After you've successfully tried it on yourself package it as a simple prototype app. Add some gamification and put it on Kickstarter.

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Re:Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak? by lalos on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:04PM (#12981549)

In theory this could be illegal in certain states, right? You have to notify all parties that they are being recorded.

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Re:Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak? by taylorzane on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:16PM (#12981687)

There are only ~11 states that require all-party consent to record, and most of the states state that the law only applies to telephone/wire recordings. On top of that, the states who are all-party consent generally specify that public conversations are not protected under the law.

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Re:Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak? by JimmyAustin on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:09PM (#12983104)

Not to mention he wouldn't necessarily be recording, just logging time where the amplitude of the signal was over a certain threshold.

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Re:Ask HN: Any way to measure how much I speak? by ThrustVectoring on Thursday November 17, 2016 @07:20PM (#12983182)

I'm not a lawyer, and I may not be remembering this correctly. That said, I believe that having a really obvious microphone obviates the need to explicitly inform people that you're recording. Maybe someone on a camera crew can chime in?

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