Seems like this is primarily reducing the friction of entering a new channel and talking. And you get visibility into who's in there. In Slack you'd have to either start a new call or join one.<p>On a related note, does anyone wish they could just follow along with a text-to-speech version of a Slack conversation? Especially given you can model someone's voice with a 15-second clip [0] - I wonder if it would be less distracting to just hear messages play with unique voices that match your coworkers instead of alt-tabbing or seeing notifications on my screen pop up while doing semi-focused work.<p>0 - <a href="https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adaptation/" rel="nofollow">https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/speaker_adapt...</a>