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Voice chat is a modern form of communication used on the Internet. The means of communicating with voice chat is through any of the messengers, mainly Yahoo! Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger or Windows Live Messenger. Voice chat has led to a significant increase in distant communications where two or more people from opposite ends of the world can talk almost free of cost.

Rocket Messenger and AOL were among the first to offer voice chat facilities. They were followed by Paltalk which became a quick hit. Later Yahoo! Messenger became the most dominant voice chat service as it provided unique features. These included individual voice chat with another person, as well as conference call type voice chat facilities categorized in Yahoo! Rooms.

Many video games with online multiplayer allow players to communicate via voice chatting. In 2001, Sony released the Network adapter for their PlayStation 2 video game console, which allowed voice chatting with a headset. In 2002, Microsoft launched the Xbox Live service, which supports voice chatting through a headset bundled with the Xbox 360 premium package and the official starter kit. In 2005, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, an online multiplayer service for both the Nintendo DS and for the Wii. In March 2006, Metroid Prime Hunters was released, making it the first game to allow voice chatting through the Nintendo DS's microphone. Also, Nintendo released a Nintendo DS headset for voice chat alongside the release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.

See also

  • VoIP or Voice over IP for an overview of all technologies available.
  • Ekiga: a nice and stable Linux program and has a beta version available on Windows and it is Free Software in the GNU General Public License sense of the word (webcam support).
  • Openwengo with their WengoPhone application that works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and it is Free Software
  • GameStreet Talk voice chat and instant messaging for gamers
  • Mumble is an open source voice chat for gamers much like Ventrilo or TeamSpeak but with quality similar to Skype; because it's open source, it doesn't have any restrictions or licensing fees.
  • Skype whose most recent version works on Windows, but they also maintain Mac OS X and Linux versions (webcam support on Windows XP en Vista, not Windows 2000 and older)
  • TeamSpeak is one of the most popular voice chat applications for gamers, currently competing with Ventrilo; it suffers most from poor audio quality
  • Ventrilo is similar to TeamSpeak in popularity, but the free server isn't nearly as flexible because of the 8 player limit
  • Gizmo which uses open standards and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, but is not Free Software (can record conversations, no webcam)
  • Yahoo! Voice (webcam support)
  • Windows Live Messenger (formerly known as MSN Messenger, has webcam support)
  • Google Talk (no webcam)
  • inSpeak (webcam support)
  • Comparison of VoIP software
  • List of commercial voice over IP network providers
Communication is a process that allows organisms to exchange information by several methods. Communication requires that all parties understand a common language that is exchanged with each other.
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Internet is a worldwide, publicly accessible series of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government
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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such
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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is an advertisement-supported free proprietary instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. It was released by AOL in May of 1997.
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Windows Live Messenger (WLM), still commonly referred to by the previous name of MSN Messenger (MSN for short), is an instant messaging client for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Mobile, first released on December 13, 2005 by
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AOL LLC

Subsidiary of Time Warner
Founded 1985 (as Quantum Computer Services)
Headquarters New York, New York, United States

Key people Randy Falco, Ted Leonsis, Ronald Grant
Industry Internet & Communications
Products Internet service
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Paltalk is an internet chat service for text, voice and video chatting. The Paltalk Messenger program is in a free, banner-supported format as well as an ad-free version that requires users to subscribe. Paltalk is only available to users of Microsoft Windows.
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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo! ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such
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PlayStation 2 in the original black colour]]
Manufacturer Sony Computer Entertainment
Type Video game console
Generation Sixth generation era
First available March 4, 2000
October 26, 2000
November 24, 2000
November 30, 2000
December 1, 2004
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video game console is an interactive entertainment computer or electronic device that manipulates the video display signal of a display device (a television, monitor, etc.) to display a game.
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Xbox Live is an online multiplayer gaming and content delivery service created and operated by Microsoft Corporation. It was first made available to the Xbox video game console in November 2002.
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Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection is an online service run by Nintendo to facilitate free Internet play in compatible Nintendo DS and Wii games.

Functionality

Games designed to take advantage of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection offer Internet play integrated into the game.
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Nintendo DS (sometimes abbreviated NDS or DS) is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo, which was released in 2004 in Canada, U.S., and Japan.
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WII may refer to:
  • Wildlife Institute of India (WII)
  • Wii, a video game console released by Nintendo

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  • World War II (WWII)



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Metroid Prime Hunters is a first-person shooter and adventure game for the Nintendo DS developed by NST, a Redmond-based first-party developer for Nintendo, and released on March 20, 2006.
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Pokémon Diamond (ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド
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Voice over Internet Protocol, also called VoIP, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband is the routing of voice conversations over the Internet or through any other IP-based network.
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Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) is a free and open source VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME and Windows. Ekiga supports both the SIP and H.323 (based on OpenH323) protocols and is fully interoperable with any other SIP compliant application and with
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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GNU General Public License
Author: Free Software Foundation
Version: 3
Copyright on the license: Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Publication date: 29 June 2007
OSI approved: Yes
Debian approved: Yes
Free Software:
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OpenWengo is a community of free software enthusiasts. The OpenWengo community is sponsored by Wengo, a French SIP provider, itself backed by Neuf Cegetel, a French telco.
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Maintainer: OpenWengo developers

OS: Cross-platform

Use: VoIP/instant messaging service
License: GNU General Public License
Website: [1] programming_language = C/C++

WengoPhone
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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Maintainer: Skype Limited

OS: Cross-platform

Use: P2P/VoIP/instant messaging/
video call/videophone
License: Freeware (with some non-free features)
Website: www.skype.
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Gizmo is a placeholder name for any small technological item. Other similar names are gadget, widget, thingamajig, blobject, etc..
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Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things.
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Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service [1], [2] provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application.
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Windows Live Messenger (WLM), still commonly referred to by the previous name of MSN Messenger (MSN for short), is an instant messaging client for Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows Mobile, first released on December 13, 2005 by
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MSN Messenger is a freeware instant messaging client that was developed and distributed by Microsoft in 1999 to 2005 and in 2007 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system (except Windows Vista), and aimed towards home users.
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