GTT Live: Life After Skype...What’s Your Next Phone Patch?
George The Tech’s Performer Friendly Podcast

GTT Live: Life After Skype...What’s Your Next Phone Patch?

B1IntermediateMay 1, 202524 min

George the Tech discusses the end of Skype and explores various alternatives for making and receiving phone calls, particularly in a business and studio environment. George conducts the live stream via Zoom using a wireless OZ headset and examines why platforms like Microsoft Teams, Google Voice, and even Zoom itself may not be ideal for replacing Skype. He highlights OpenPhone as an effective VoIP solution, detailing its features, usability, and advantages for voice actors and other professionals. George also demonstrates how to use the CEntrance PASport VO...

Play episode

Opens the player: the full transcript, every word clickable, with translation and flashcards.

Try it: tap any word

Real sentences from the start of this episode. Every word is marked with its level.

Sentence 1 of 12 · 0:00

, , .

Just love to experiment with different platforms and different technology.

Hear this sentence

Tap a word to see its meaning in your language.

Do you know these words?

8 harder words from this episode. Tap one to see what it means, then mark it.

  • B21:04
  • B23:18
  • B28:04
  • B212:13
  • B212:27
  • C116:19
  • B219:13
  • C124:37

Mark a few words and we'll tell you how this episode fits your level.

Is this episode right for you?

B1

B1 · Intermediate

Fine if you can follow simple news

A1 28%A2 34%B1 21%B2 16%C1 1%
  • 83% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 162 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
  • 60 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

Transcript

The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.

0:00

Well, hello everybody, George the Tech here. Just love to experiment with different platforms and different technology. So today I'm doing something I rarely ever do, which is I'm actually doing a live stream using Zoom. So I'm using Zoom to cast out onto Facebook live.

0:19

Just because. And I'm mixing it up using a wireless headset today made by Autizy called the Maxwell. And so just curious to see what you guys think if it sounds good enough to do this kind of thing or if it's too low fidelity for you guys well

0:37

Why am I here? What this is all about is I want to talk about Skype and the fact that Skype is going away Officially tomorrow now many of you probably are thinking Skype

That was the opening. The rest of the episode (24 min) is in the player: every word clickable, with translation, saved words and flashcards.

Continue in the player

Automatically generated from the audio. May contain errors. Audio belongs to its publisher and is played from their feed. Rights holders can request removal — copyright & takedown policy