Re: [orca-list] voice conferencing with Orca

["Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>]

Hi Henning,
Many thanks, I will give Mumble and others a try.
Milton
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henning Oschwald" <listmail hoschwald de>
To: <Orca-list gnome org>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [orca-list] voice conferencing with Orca


> Hi,
>
> On Di, Aug 24 2010, Milton wrote:
>
> > Can you please tell me if there is a program for voice conferencing
> > accessible with Orca?
>
> There are many SIP clients out there which are quite accessible. Ekiga
> (GTK), Linphone (console and GTK interface) or Twinkle (QT3 and console
> UI) for example. At least Twinkle also supports conference calls.
>
> > I heard of Mumble but it is not accessible with Orca.
>
> That shouldn't necessarily prevent you from using it. I use Mumble
> during my job. It is permanently running to allow me and my colleagues
> to keep in touch as we work at different locations.
>
> Sure, Mumble uses Qt4 and is not accessible for orca, but the connection
> data can be specified on program execution.
>
> Assuming your Mumble server runs at mumble.example.net and you want to
> connect and join the room "meeting" and your user name is "milton", you
> can execute mumble as follows:
>
>  mumble mumble://milton mumble example net/meeting
>
> If Mumble already knows your password, you'll be connected immediately
> and can start conferencing. Otherwise you can enter your password and
> press enter. Perhaps you may need some sighted assistance when starting
> mumble for the first time to go through the audio wizard and accept the
> server certificate, but if you are getting a bit familiar with Mumble,
> you don't need sighted help at all, except for configuring the shortcuts
> such as push-to-talk, mute, etc. You however do not necessarily need
> them.
>
> cheers
>
>  Henning
>
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