12/28/2022 0 Comments How to make an .m4r file louder![]() You may be required to use a certain interpreting platform to take calls, using a required third-party application that isn’t specifically designed for interpreting, or you’re interpreting the old-fashioned way through a dedicated phone line (whether landline or VoIP). Your ability to even touch your ringtone is highly dependent upon how you’re taking calls. It raises your blood pressure, too! This fight-or-flight response takes about 20 minutes to an hour to completely dissipate.ĭoes any of this sound like a good way to start off a remote interpreting encounter to you? Am I Able to Change my Ringtone? Accurate visualization of my previous VoIP desktop app ringtone and also (no coincidence) how it would make me feel Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplashĭuring the fight or flight response, your body releases hormones (including adrenaline) that cause a domino effect of physiological responses: increased heart rate, increased respiratory rate, dilated pupils, and even shaking. ![]() ![]() Although some of us live with anxiety 365 days a year, pandemic or not, many of you are likely experiencing sustained stress and situational anxiety from the pandemic that you may not otherwise have. Most people will usually only have an acute stress response when faced with a real threat (whether it be physical or psychological), but folks with anxiety tend to have an easily or frequently triggered fight-or-flight response. In some people, especially those with anxiety, such loud, startling sounds can trigger a fight-or-flight response, also know as an acute stress response. When I first began phone interpreting, the deafening scream of my desktop VoIP application’s default ringtone would not only make me jump, but sometimes make my heart race and my palms get sweaty. This will likely come as no surprise to you: many default ringtones are deafening and, to say in the least, startling. But what about for our VRI or OPI setup(s)? Maybe this is an unexplored avenue for you, but changing your ringtone (if you are able) can be a great way to reduce the initial anxiety you may get with incoming calls. Most of us either stick with the default ringtone on our cell phones, or spend a whole thirty seconds selecting from the list of a dozen or so prepackaged tones and call it a day. They’ve become nothing more than a (tragically?) brief footnote in the history of cell phones. ![]() These days, hardly anyone uses custom ringtones. Remember how you had to hit the 7 key four times to type the letter S? If any one of them was careless, their phone would start ringing in the middle of class and their custom ringtone of “Lips of an Angel” would start playing, resulting in the confiscation of their beloved Razr. If you were still in high school like I was, all the cool kids had their Motorola Razr cell phones stashed away below their desks so the teachers couldn’t see them painstakingly texting, letter by letter. ![]()
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