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Carbon Voice vs. Other Communication Tools.
Carbon Voice reduces the number of phone calls and meetings, while increasing the speed of sharing information to a team and discussing issues, especially while on-the-go.
Customers say...
We have many ways to communicate, yet most of our voice communication is based on a 149 year old construct - the phone call.
Customers say... "Carbon Voice reduces the number of phone calls and meetings, while increasing the speed of sharing information to a team and discussing issues, especially while on-the-go."
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Carbon Voice vs. Other Tools
We love our tools and it’s important to use the right tool for the job and for the right moment. Here’s how we see teams using Carbon Voice as part of their communication toolbox. In practice, Carbon Voice mostly takes from phone calls and meetings.
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Carbon Voice vs. Email
Email is great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Structured long-form communication
You need a conversation and speed and nuance of message matters.
✅ Rich, personal communication—embed a Carbon Voice memo instead of writing a long email.
✅ Easier replies—recipients can respond in voice instead of typing.
✅ AI-enhanced clarity—voice messages are transcribed, structured, and easy to scan.
Carbon Voice vs. Slack
While it’s easy to compare features and think Slack and Carbon Voice overlap, in practice, we find Slack usage doesn’t change. The moment a team says “Let’s talk about this” is the moment Carbon Voice comes into the picture instead of another phone call or meeting.
Slack is great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Voice memos great for one-off messages, but not super conversational or on-the-go friendly.
Typing is slowing things down or losing nuance.
✅ Faster back-and-forth voice communication—voice is typically 4x faster than typing.
✅ Seamless Slack integration—Start a Carbon Voice message from Slack or drop a Carbon Voice link into Slack to keep discussions structured and easy to reference.
Quick synchronous calls or meetings
Don’t want to disrupt focus, yet still need to talk.
✅ Easier to catch up later—transcripts, highlights, and AI-generated action items.
Structured text/short messages
Want a conversational feel like phone call.
✅ Perfect for mobile users—speak, send, and get AI-powered summaries.
✅ One-tap Catch-up—Press play to catch-up on all messages in Conversation or across all Conversations.
✅ Multi-modal—Speak or Type, Read or Listen depending on the moment.
✅ Transcript & AI—Quick tap to get transcript or AI transformed content.
Carbon Voice vs. Zoom
Zoom is great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Great for live meetings where screen sharing is needed
You need to talk about something, but don’t need a screen
✅ Just talk—Just start talking about the topic and get the conversation going.
✅ Add in Others—No need to way for others or start over when people arrive, just add them and let them catch-up on what has already been said.
✅ AI captures action items—Carbon Voice automatically transcribes and gives AI actions to summarize and structure discussions for notes.
Everyone is needed at same time at sacrifice of delays to have the meeting and disrupting schedules and focus
✅ No scheduling required—speak when you’re ready, and teammates respond when they can.
✅ No need for meeting overload—discussions can happen asynchronously.
✅ Faster pre-meeting collaboration—get discussions started before a meeting is even scheduled.
Carbon Voice vs. Loom
Loom is great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
One-way videos and screen sharing with simple commenting
You need a true back & forth conversation about a concept
✅ Faster than video when visuals aren’t needed—sometimes, you just need voice without turning on a camera, especially on-the-go.
✅ Easier to catch up and engage and have back and forth conversations —transcripts, AI summaries, and interactive replies make collaboration smoother.
Carbon Voice vs. Phone Calls
Phone Calls are great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Good for real-time communication when both are available at same time or ok to disrupt
You don’t want to disrupt or wait for phone-tag to get talking
✅ No need to sync schedules—record a message and let others reply when they can.
✅ Better than voicemail—structured back-and-forth conversations, not just scattered voice clips.
✅ AI-powered transcription & summarization—never lose track of what was said.
✅ Easy to reference later—unlike phone calls, Carbon Voice conversations are searchable and can be turned into actionable outputs.
Carbon Voice vs. Notion/Google Docs
Notion/Google Docs is great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Great for documentation and organizing information with simple comments
Comments are talking past each other
✅ Upgrade back-and-forth text comments into a fluid voice conversation.
✅ Faster idea-sharing—brainstorm by speaking instead of typing long comments.
✅ Link voice discussions directly into Notion or Docs—so nothing gets lost.
Carbon Voice vs. Voice Note Taking Apps
Voice Note Taking Apps are great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Capturing voice notes for yourself to transcribe and clean-up with AI
You want that AND you collaborate with others on your ideas.
✅ Capture Voice Memos—Capture and organize voice memos with near-perfect transcriptions.
✅ Refine—Use AI to transform them into structured text outputs. Translate into different languages.
✅ Share—Share links to the voice memos, full transcripts, or AI cleaned up text.
✅ Collaborate with Others—Share voice Memos with others and have full conversations back and forth about your ideas. Talk across language barriers with Global Voice.
✅ Integrated into your Tools—Turn your Carbon Voice messages into information fed into your existing tools like Notion, Google Docs, Saleforce, and thousands more.
Carbon Voice vs. Consumer Messaging Apps
Consumer Messaging Apps
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Great for consumer use
Conversations are about Business where companies have a fiduciary and legal responsibility to access and protect the communication data related to the business.
✅ Onboard new Teammates—Workspace Directory to make it easy to find the people and conversations to get up to speed.
✅ Offboard Departures—Remove access to Workspace conversations when teammates leave.
✅ Retention Policies—Specify retention policies to cleanup conversations and messages. Legal hold on users.
✅ Information Requests—Grab message history for sets of people in a Workspace to meet E-Discovery legal request obligations.
Carbon Voice vs. Asynchronous Voice Messaging Apps
Asynchronous Voice Messaging Apps are great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Turning voice into back and forth asynchronous conversations
You want that AND a rich set of AI tools and integrations with SaaS tools.
✅ Automatic Transcripts—Near-perfect transcripts make it easy to go back and forth between talking and texting. Automatic translation let’s you talk across languages.
✅ AI Actions—Use AI to summarize long messages and turn conversations into clear documentation.
✅ Integrated into your Tools—Turn your Carbon Voice messages into information fed into your existing tools like Notion, Google Docs, Saleforce, and thousands more.
Feels like a Phone Call, with asynchronous flexibility
The adoption of Voice notes or voice attachments have exploded in recent years.
Carbon Voice is unique in its ability to feel like a back and forth Conversation addressing some of the distinct challenges of voice & audio:
One tap from Home Screen to quickly catch-up on a Conversation or across all Conversations.
Organized Conversations to facilitate back and forth discussion and real dialogue.
Specifically designed for mobile use, ensuring you can record and send messages smoothly, even when offline or in poor network areas.
Automatic transcripts let you read when you can’t listen and text input lets you write back and the recipient can listen.
Automatic translation with Global Voice, let’s you talk across languages in your own voice.
Bring people into a conversation and they can catch-up, no need to repeat what was said.
AI helps you summarize and structure long voice messages or discussions giving you effortless “meeting notes”.
Carbon Voice vs. Translation Apps
Translations Apps are great for:
Carbon Voice helps in when:
Quick translation of individual phrases or long docs
You want easy back and forth conversations across language.
✅ Automatic Translation— Automatic translation let’s you talk across languages to the recipients understood language(s).
✅ Your voice—Voice Cloning preserves sender’s tone and nuance across languages.
✅ Conversations Across Timezones—Translation is automatic and effortless as part of the Conversation. Language barriers often mean timezone barriers where async allows each person to talk when they are available.
Carbon Voice: an unparalleled on-the-go Conversation experience
Carbon Voice combines the feel of a phone call with the convenience of asynchronous communication, offering a dynamic way for those who are constantly on-the-go with busy schedules to have voice conversations.
While it’s designed to tackle the unique challenges of audio and voice, Carbon Voice goes beyond just voice – you can choose how to communicate based on your needs: read or listen, speak or type. Plus, it’s packed with features like AI-powered conversation summaries and curated playlists to make having voice conversations an unparalleled new experience.
