With the addition of public API, further integrations and a strong foundation within the platform, we believe our impact can be exponential.” With integrations, our approach has been to connect our platform with other platforms and give users wider access to content sharing. “Our technology directly serves that purpose through an open-source approach to content, with safeguards layered to moderate. “From the beginning, we developed our platform to give users the express ability to create,” they add. In addition, the competition between apps and platforms is fierce and they are all working hard to make their offerings more tacky, fun and attractive. We’ve seen from instant chat to emoticons to GIFs that people all over the world want to experiment with and just have fun with how they communicate – it’s one of the things we all have in common. Audio has the potential to have the same, if not greater, impact on modern communications. “As we’ve seen with memes and GIFs, people love to create their own very creative content. In areas like gaming, where communicating with images or text doesn’t work as well, there’s a huge gap for audio to really enhance the experience,” co-founders Xander Kanon, Joey de Kruis and Milan Kokir suggest via email. “We want to create a new way for people to express themselves creatively in the way they communicate. Zoom out, Voicy’s stated mission is to do for sound clips what Giphy has done for GIFs. So far, it has one integration with the Viber messaging app, but it offers a “simple universal API” to encourage other platforms to sign up. The typical Voicy user is, unsurprisingly, young and trigger-happy, according to the startup - which views gamers’ voice chat as a prime target for a pipeline of social integrations it hopes to build. John Oliver yells “GOOGLE IT!” repeatedly, or Epic Sax Guy’s epic saxophone, and so on. Plus a cacophony of over-enthusiastic internet memes in audio form. Borat clips, for example, or squid game sounds.
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