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Zoom Escaper App Provides Excuse to Escape Meetings Using Fake Sounds

Technology to the rescue! A new app gives you the perfect alibi to excuse yourself from Zoom meetings by playing fake audio sounds such as bad connections, a crying baby, construction, and more. Brilliant!

New App Helps You Escape Zoom Meetings

Every new piece of technology brings undesired consequences, but luckily technology inspires other technology which usually finds an antidote.

Case in point: The pandemic has forced many of us to work from home, which saw video conference software made by Zoom Video Communications, Inc., become a mainstay as the de facto method of holding meetings and communicating with coworkers off-site.

That’s good, right? Not always.

Unfortunately, many things that used to be handled by a phone call or an email inexplicably seem to require us being shackled to our chairs, forced to hold a virtual meeting.

But technology has come to the rescue with a new app, a free web widget, called Zoom Escaper, which attempts to provide a legit reason for escaping your Zoom meeting early.

How Zoom Escaper Helps You Flee Meetings

The new Zoom Escaper app is a free web widget that provides an array of fake audio effects that creates the illusion of a variety of problems on your end, problems that everyone else will agree you need to excuse yourself to solve, The Verge first reported. Which problem you choose is up to you

You can select from very legit-sounding problems like a “bad connection” that makes your audio sound choppy or “echo” which is sure to annoy other parties who will beg you to disconnect.

A couple of effects will surely pull at the heartstrings, such as “upset baby.” Of course, this only works if everyone is aware you have a baby in the house. You really can’t use this effect if you don’t have a baby unless you’re going to claim you have company and/or you’re babysitting.

Similarly, there is the “man weeping” effect that will surely induce sympathy, but who knows what kind of a whopping yarn you’ll have to spin to sell this one.

Other effects include “dog,” which would probably only provide a momentary excuse to go put the animal outdoors. “Wind” is likely only viable if you’re outside or want to claim a tornado is about to descend on your home, otherwise, there’s really no legit explanation as to why you’d have gale-force winds inside your home. “Construction,” is another one, which may sound like your place is being torn down. “Urination,” is another one but no one wants to hear that and it’s undoubtedly problematic for many reasons.

Using Zoom Escaper

Zoom Escaper is a free app that was developed by Sam Lavigne, and is very simple to use. To use it, you will also need to download free audio software called VB-Audio that will route your audio through the website and change your audio input in Zoom from your microphone to VB-Audio in order to play the effects. A tutorial for Zoom Escaper can be found here on YouTube.