[Sderby] Re: VoIP meets IM

[James Gibbon]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 18:25:42 +0000
Paul Grosse <paul-grosse at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Anyone know of anything that is a mixture of Instant Messaging and VoIP? The 
> spec is that someone wants to be able to send voice messages to certain IPs 
> on a LAN (in the same way that IMs can be done but using sound). Are there 
> any existing products that can do this?
>

Well - some IM products have integrated voice support in the Windows world
(Yahoo messenger, MSN) but voice (and webcam) support in their Linux 
equivalents is very flaky in my experience.