Re: [orca-list] orca suggestion

[Halim Sahin <halim sahin t-online de>]

Hello,
On Mi, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:38:45 +1100, Jason White wrote:
> Since SIP is an open, standard protocol, not a closed, proprietary one, the
> latter is the way to go.

ACK.

> > There are many free sip clients under linux available.
> 
> Try linphone for example, either the Gnome version or the console version.
> Also, there's a new open protocol available called Jingle, based on Jabber. It
> was developed originally by Google, and apparently Pidgin may implement it at
> some point. When that happens, you should be able to make voice calls via
> Pidgin, which will also be compatible with Google's interactive messaging
> service. However, it won't be restricted to Google's service, as Jingle is an
> open, documented protocol, not a closed proprietary one such as skype.
 
Unfortunately there is currently no working implementation of a 
jingle capable client.


> Let's make Orca work very reliably with SIP clients as well as Jabber and
> Jingle clients.
> 
Yes that's it.

> Under Linux you also have the advantage of being able to 
run the Asterisk
> telephony system, which is excellent, and highly accessible via braille or
> speech as it works entirely at the console level. This list isn't the place to
> discuss it, but if you're interested I would recommend reading a book entitled
> "Asterisk: the Future of Telephony", which will provide a comprehensive
> tutorial, and a good overview of what can be accomplished. There are several
> Asterisk and VoIP experts on this mailing list, who know much more about it
> than I do.
 
I used asterisk on the textconsole using the sbl screenreader and a sip 
account.

It is perhaps a bit dificult for endusers to understand but a ((very)) 
powerfull application.

Currently I am using twinkle (www.twinklephone.com) which has excelent 
voice quality and is very stable.

There is one litle problem with it:
The configuration is not accessible (QT) but if you have some config 
files then it's easy to edit it yourself using a texteditor.
Twinkle runs on a textconsole (no need for kde) 
BR.
Halim