{"id":28362,"date":"2011-03-31T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T14:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=28362"},"modified":"2016-06-24T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T13:28:42","slug":"skype-phone-booth-and-skype-voice-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/skype-phone-booth-and-skype-voice-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype Phone Booth and Skype Voice Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting developments on the <a title=\"Skype Hardware\" href=\"\/skype\" onclick=\"ga('send', 'event', 'voip-insider-blog-post', 'click', 'Skype ');\">Skype <\/a>front include the first ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakingtravelnews.com\/news\/article\/skype-returns-to-estonia-with-first-phone-booth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype phone booth<\/a> installed in an airport in Estonia and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarecrew.com\/2011\/03\/skype-voice-changer-enables-you-to-alter-your-voice-on-a-call\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skype voice changer<\/a> that allows you to alter the sound of your voice during VoIP calls.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, why install a Skype phone booth and why Estonia?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Skype software was developed by a pair of Estonians and many development team members are still located in Tallinn, the city where this phone booth has been launched.\u00a0 The Estonian government is also on a mission to do away with all analog phone booths on the street.\u00a0 And why not?\u00a0 When&#8217;s the last time you haven&#8217;t been near a cell phone?<\/p>\n<p>Detractors are saying that\u00a0this would have been a great idea 10 years ago, the booths themselves are expensive (~$6,000), and they&#8217;re potentially unprofitable if everyone signs up for a free Skype account.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the booths won&#8217;t last but a new free Skype add-on\u00a0has gained a following\u00a0&#8211; the <a title=\"Skype Voice Changer 1.0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downloadcrew.com\/article\/21128-skype_voice_changer_10_\" target=\"_blank\">Skype Voice Changer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As advertised, the voice changer (originally an audio project created by <a href=\"http:\/\/mark-dot-net.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Heath <\/a>) will change your voice in real time with special effects from a predefined list\u00a0that can also\u00a0be customized.\u00a0 Now go have fun with your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting developments on the Skype front include the first ever Skype phone booth installed in an airport in Estonia and a Skype voice changer that allows you to alter the sound of your voice during VoIP calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188003,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28362\/revisions\/188003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}