Monday, June 01, 2009

VOIP to Gtalk, YM, MSN using Gizmo.

I have setup Gizmo on Ubuntu and called couple of friends (Windows users) on their Gtalk and Yahoo Messenger and had voice chat today and surprised them.

Gizmo has not updated its Linux version since Nov 2007 and there is lot of criticism by Linux users on its forum. I had to use OSS to make the audio work.

Once setup and audio checked through free sip call to Echo Test I could easily import the Gtalk and YM buddies and could have text chat with online buddies but voice chat did not work. This was happening because they were setup as user_id@xmpp.chat.gizmoproject.com (Gtalk) user_id@yahoo.chat.gizmoproject.com

Then I added one contact as user_id@gmail.com and called him and had successful voice chat.

3 comments:

shah said...

good to hear this :)

do u have any luck with Ekiga Softphone?

Kamalakar Agashe said...

@ shah
I know Ekiga is available on Ubuntu but never tried it.

shah said...

I tried ekiga on my debian 5.0 box to experiment voice chat with other gtalk users.

but no luck yet..

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