Pausing a live teleconference call

1. Non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed by a communications device, facilitate a method of controlling participation in a teleconference call, the method comprising:

connecting to the teleconference call such that a user of the communications device is capable of participating in the teleconference call;

recording any real-time inbound and real-time outbound audio that is communicated via the call, thereby resulting in stored audio,

(1) wherein the real-time inbound audio is audio that is being spoken by other call participants, and

(2) wherein the real-time outbound audio is local audio that is being communicated from the communications device to the other call participants; receiving a pause command, which indicates a desire to suspend real-time participation in the teleconference call and which begins a pause process, which includes the following,

(1) continuing to record the real-time inbound audio but preventing it from being presented via the communications device until a resume request is received;

(2) preventing the real-time outbound audio from being communicated to the other call participants until a resume request is received; and

(3) enabling a resume option, which is activated by receiving the resume request, which, when received, re-enables communication of the real-time inbound and real-time outbound audio;

monitoring the real-time inbound audio even though it is no longer being substantially presented via speaker, wherein the monitoring includes determining that a key phrase has been spoken by one or more of the other call participants, and wherein the live call is resumed automatically without a resume request from the user; and

resuming the live call when the key phrase is spoken.

2. The media of claim 1 , wherein preventing the real-time inbound audio from being presented via the communications device includes substantially preventing it from being outputted via a speaker of the communications device.

3. The media of claim 1 , wherein preventing the real-time outbound audio from being communicated to the other call participants is accomplished by muting a microphone of the communications device.

4. The media of claim 1 , wherein the pause process further includes outputting onto a display of the communications a text translation of the real-time inbound audio, thereby enabling a user to read comments from the other participants even after the pause command is received.

5. The media of claim 1 , wherein the pause process further includes monitoring the real-time inbound audio even though it is no longer being substantially presented via speaker.

6. The media of claim 5 , wherein the monitoring includes determining that a key phrase has been spoken by one or more of the other participants.

7. The media of claim 6 , further comprising presenting an indication that the key phrase was spoken.

8. The media of claim 7 , wherein presenting the indicating includes presenting one or more of:

a visual indication;

an audible indication; or

a feel indication.

9. The media of claim 8 , wherein the visual indication includes a transcription of a usage of the key phrase.

10. The media of claim 8 , wherein the transcription includes surrounding context associated with the key phrase.

11. The media of claim 1 , wherein the pause process further includes enabling a playback process, which includes playing back the stored audio at a playback speed.

12. The media of claim 1 , wherein the playback speed is one or more of:

slower than a recorded rate;

equal to the recorded rate; or

faster than the recorded rate.

13. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that, when executed on a communications device, facilitate a method of controlling participation of a user in a teleconference call, the method comprising:

facilitating real-time participation in the teleconference call, which includes presenting real-time audio received from the other participants and communicating any real-time audio from the user;

storing the real-time audio received from the participants, thereby providing stored received audio;

storing the real-time audio communicated from the user, thereby providing stored sent audio;

initiating a pause process in which the user's real-time participation in the teleconference call is paused, but the connection to the call is maintained; and;

enabling a playback option, which, when engaged triggers a playback process that plays back one or more of the stored received audio or the stored sent audio;

monitoring the real-time inbound audio even though it is no longer being substantially presented via speaker, wherein the monitoring includes determining that a key phrase has been spoken by one or more of the other call participants and wherein the live call is resumed automatically without a resume request from the user; and

resuming the live call when the key phrase is spoken.

14. The media of claim 13 , wherein facilitating the real-time participation in the teleconference call is carried out incident to receiving input from a user to establish a connection to a teleconference call, which includes other participants.

15. The media of claim 13 , wherein the pause process includes monitoring the real-time audio received from the participants for a key phrase, which, if spoken, would invoke a notification process.

16. The media of claim 14 , wherein the notification process includes presenting a visual indication that the key phrase was spoken.

17. The media of claim 16 , wherein the visual indication includes a transcription of the key phrase.

18. The media of claim 13 , further comprising presenting a playback control on a display of the communications device.

19. The media of claim 13 , wherein the pause process is initiated without providing an indication to the other participants that the pause process was initiated.

20. A method of controlling participation in a teleconference call, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a given user and requests from other participants to join a conference call (“call”);

facilitating recording all audio that is communicated via the call, thereby producing recorded audio;

from a communications device that is associated with the user, receiving a request to pause the call;

continuing to communicate audio information to the communications device while preventing the device from being used to participate in real time in the conference call until receiving a request to do so (“a catch-up request”);

receiving a request to playback at least a portion of the recorded audio (“audio portion”); and

during the call, playing back the audio portion through the communications device such that the given user is able to listen to the recorded audio without severing a connection with the call, which can be rejoined at will by way of the catch-up request;

monitoring the real-time inbound audio even though it is no longer being substantially presented via speaker, wherein the monitoring includes determining that a key phrase has been spoken by one or more of the other call participants and wherein the live call is resumed automatically without a resume request from the user; and

resuming the live call when the key phrase is spoken.