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AUDIO TELECONFERENCE

Done by: Mahmood AL-HarrasiHussain Al-Qaedi

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Tool

Description

Advantages

limitations

• A teleconference is a simple and cost-

effective way to communicate between two single sites or to multiple sites and users.

• An audio teleconference alive two-way conversation using telephone line or satellites contact people at different location.

Audio Teleconference:

Tool:

The device can be connected to any computer that is being used by a meeting host as long as that user is both dialed into the phone and broadcasting.

Audio Teleconference Types:

Audio Teleconference Classroom Connection:

Example: phone link

One example use for group Audio Teleconference from a boardroom meeting to a phone-link for a large audience.

Internet Audio Teleconferencing:

Equipment for Audio Teleconferencing:

• Telephone

• Desktop units (speaker phones) for inter-office conferencing.

• Portable audio systems with tabletop microphones for a group of people in an ordinary room environment .

• Installed audio systems in acoustically treated teleconference rooms.

Advantages:

Inexpensive: All of the audio/voice technologies are relatively inexpensive.

Easy to use : Almost everyone is comfortable using a telephone and an audio cassette. With voice technologies, there is no software to install and no hardware to configure!

 Easily accessible.

Limitation:

Not conducive to visual information: Many students find it hard to focus and learn strictly through audio input. In addition, audio-only format restricts the content that can be conveyed (abstract concepts are very difficult to convey through audio).

May be impersonal: With audio-only interactions, there is no eye contact and no body language. Students may be "turned off" by a talking box.

May require scheduling.

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