Listen: 12 New Sound Effects on Google+ Hangouts

Google+ Hangouts bring silliness to the chatroom with the help of a virtual toy box filled with costumes and videos for friends to share while they talk. Now Google has added sound effects to its bag of tricks. If the hats were conversation starters, the sounds are more like conversation enders. Here's a quick and dirty preview of how they sound.

Google+ Hangouts bring silliness to the chatroom with the help of a virtual toy box filled with costumes and videos for friends to share while they talk.  Now Google has added sound effects to its bag of tricks. If the hats were conversation starters, the sounds are more like conversation enders.

Explained Google product manager Amit Fulay on Google+:

Thanks to the Google Effects app, people have added reindeer antlers, and pirate hats, and moustaches to their live video feeds in Hangouts.

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