Former Microsoft Chief Architect Ray Ozzie along with Matt Pope and Eric Patey has developed a new application dubbed Talko, aimed at the enterprise market to introduce voice communication over the internet in a different way to make day-to-day discussions accessible even after the meetings are over.
Talko will record all communications including voice, text and pictures shared during the conference call and anyone who is not able to call in, will be able to listen to the whole session at a later time.
Ozzie conceived the idea for the app while he was deputed on a project to help Japanese technologists build a radiation monitoring network after the Fukushima nuclear power plant was destroyed by Tsunami in 2011.
He saw that the employees had only their phones to communicate with each other and he began to think how differently voice communication can be used over the internet to make everyday discussions accessible at a later time.
The app has been under development since 2012 and Microsoft is now all set to take the wraps off Talko. The project raised a funding of $4 million in 2012 when it was initiated with investors including Ozzie, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners and Kapor Capital.
The data will be stored on Talko servers and the data will be sent to users’ devices through the application whenever the user requires. Users can also bookmark parts of the conversation and tag other attendees of the conference call with action items.
While the service comes for free, users will have to pay a monthly subscription to listen to old conversations. Microsoft has not yet shared subscription details and it is assumed that it will cost less than $10 for a month to get access to data that is 10 days old.
