A webinar is a live online method of communication that allows you to broadcast information about your goods and services to large amounts of people at a time. During a webinar you broadcast both video and sound. In this article we will cover how you will transmit your sound and how your audience will be able to hear you.
There are two ways that you can send your audio during a webinar. They are- Voice Over IP and calling on the telephone. You can also have both available to use in different circumstances.
To use the Voice Over IP option you will need a good quality headset with earphones and a microphone. Using GoToWebinar software is very simple because it will detect your headset and use it by default. Using this method you broadcast your voice at the same time as your audio. It is the easiest solution and is recommended.
If you are not set up to use a headset then you have the alternative of calling on the telephone. To do this you need to reset your computers audio settings from microphone and speakers to a telephone. You will be given a telephone number and access code that will turn your telephone into a headset and microphone, allowing you to both speak to and listen to your webinar participants. Your webinar service provider forwards your voice to the audience and returns any responses back to you.
Now that we know how our webinar audience will be able to listen to our presentation, let's discuss how they will be able to hear and respond to you.
It is simple- they have the same two choices as you do. They can use their headset to both listen and speak. You do not have to be live for them to listen to the broadcast. To use the telephone option they will need, as we discussed previously, a telephone number and access code in order to use their telephone as a headset. They can also respond to you using the telephone if you choose to let them do so.
Now that we've looked at the different methods of sending and receiving audio and video, let's summarize what we've covered. There are two ways to both send and receive information from a webinar. The first and by far the simplest, is to use a USB headset with a built in microphone. This method also provides better voice quality than the telephone option. USB headsets are widely available at a reasonable cost. They are highly recommended for people planning to broadcast webinars. Utilizing your telephone to send and receive webinar audiovisual is also possible using a special number and access code. It is important to be acquainted with all of the above techniques so you can run your webinars effectively without any voice distortion or come across audio problems which would deem your webinars ineffective and a failure.
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