Re: [orca-list] OT Orca, Skype and accessibility workaround

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

You raise a couple of points I will comment on.

TeamSpeak, I don't know about TeamTalk which you mention, but TeamSpeak 
does have a Linux client, debian has the TeamSpeak client in its 
non-free repository. The debian package for teamspeak-client points 
users to the home page http://www.goteamspeak.com. The Linux TeamSpeak 
client doesn't seem accessible though so isn't an option for those who 
rely on orca for access to the computer.

Pidgin may not do voice calls normally, but from what I understand the 
skype4pidgin plugin does allow users to use pidgin to make calls via the 
skype client (IE. allowing users to make skype calls from within the 
pidgin interface). I haven't been able to get this working on my system 
though.

From what I know SIP is the best solution for accessible clients 
(probably due to SIP being an open standard and many clients having been 
written for it). As for the voice quality on SIP, this is something I 
haven't gone into too much but people seem to be saying with the right 
codecs it can be of a good quality.

Michael Whapples
On 23/12/42 19:59, Erik Heil wrote:
> Hi,
> OK, maybe I completely missed something. Is Teamspeak/Teamtalk the same
> thing? if so, I fail to see why that is mentioned here.  As far as I'm
> concerned, their are no (nix( clients available for Teamtalk/Teamspeak. So
> their fore, its not at all revelant to the discussion. Pidgin? Great. Does
> not have voice chat available, but then again, that's not at all
> important, as i never actually use it the few times when I actually use
> Windows. As far as why Skype is being mentioned, that's simply because of
> its popularity. Want a free alternative to Skype that has the same audio
> quality? Well, then, perhaps GSM will do the trick. Or then, their's also
> Speex. Then again, there's existing H.323/SIP standards which already do
> have client-to-client operability.
>
> --Erik
>
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, hank smith wrote:
>
>    
> > Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:05:42 -0700
> > From: hank smith<hanksmith5 gmail com>
> > To: Labrador<labrad0r edpnet be>, Orca-list<orca-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT Orca, Skype and accessibility workaround
> >
> > because skype is widely used with the blind comunity
> > ---
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> > skype:
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> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Labrador"<labrad0r edpnet be>
> > To: "Orca-list"<orca-list gnome org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:24 AM
> > Subject: Re: [orca-list] OT Orca, Skype and accessibility workaround
> >
> >
> >      
> > > Why should skype (a non free thing) be the first to be accessible
> > > while there are lots of free and opensource software under gpl, like
> > > amsn, pidgin, ekiga, teamspeak etc... ?
> > >
> > > why should non-free be encouraged while free left unaccessible or
> > > unoptimized ?
> > >
> > > Why shouldn't skype users be invited to switch to other better tools? why
> > > does people uses skype with a maximum of person limits, while teamspeak
> > > servers autorize to talk together even if you are about 120 users ? (joke)
> > >
> > > Labrad0r
> > >
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