What’s on your mobile phone? Checking it quickly will probably reveal a lot about you and about mobile phones today in general. A call history containing people you’ve made mobile calls to or received calls from might indicate that you’re a sociable person or someone easy to contact in case of emergency. Saved text and multimedia messages might hint at just what your social life contains, and how you speak to people. Your entertainment content might indicate your favorite artists, films or albums, from the videos played on your YouTube app to the ringtones you use to announce an incoming call or message.
One interesting way to tell a person’s personality is through checking out his ringtone. These music clips started out as MIDI-style arrangements that played to approximate an existing song’s melody, and over the years have evolved into closer approximations – from overlaid monotones that more closely tried to match the song’s signature sound to actual song clips. For the most part ringtones have been song-based, and served in part to give anyone within earshot a notification that the owner had an incoming call or message – as well as a glimpse of the owner’s interests and musical tastes, something which entertainment companies have embraced to the hilt.
One innovation brought about by the introduction of audio clips as ringtones [they’re called real, true, and master tones depending on who you ask], however, is the way that the versatility of using almost anything in an audio clip. Beyond just having snippets of actual songs play to announce incoming calls and messages, one could now go to a voice recording from a friend or colleague, or a sound effect or quotable quote culled from one’s favorite films or shows [Big Bang Theory’s “Bazinga” and How I Met Your Mother’s “Suit up!” are popular choices]. You could even record yourself telling yourself there was an incoming call.
One interesting approach is introduced by No Tie Software in their new edition of 9999 Ringtones Uncensored Pro for iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. Version 6.1 continues to include new types of ringtones, mainly voice clips telling you exactly who’s calling. While you’ve always had the option of setting a particular song to play for a particular person, when you have a lot of songs to choose from and a lot of people calling you it can get confusing – so having your phone actually say the person’s name is still a fairly big deal.
Talking Text-to-Speech Ringtones can be set within the program using a variety of voices – from Jersey Girl to Space Alien and everything in between – to play a call or message report. You basically input the message you want the program to play, and choose the voice it should say it in, and the rest is up to the program to take care of. It’s an uncensored feature, of course, and you can have the phone announce that “The Bastard” is calling you – although you might want to disable this when you’re out or at work.
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