[TriLUG] Has anyone looked at gizmo?

[Brian Henning]

google for gyach.  Supports webcams and voice on Y!.

Crashes a bit on my system, but then, my system is a little wonky anyway.

I can only vouch for the webcam ability; never used the voice myself.

~Brian


Steven Klund wrote:
>  OK,
>  
> Here is a question regarding Yahoo Messenger w/voice for linux.........
>  
> I DL'd the latest yahoo messenger for linux but cannot see where voice is
> available.  What can I use to talk voice with someone who has a windows PC
> with yahoo messenger w/voice?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Steve
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: tomed at barq.itsco.com
> Date: 03/21/06 10:57:11
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Cc: burnett at pobox.com
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Has anyone looked at gizmo?
>  
> Tested Gizmo today, and it does in fact send tones. I was able to access my
> cell phone voice box, no problem. Seemed to have smoother duplex support -
> it can take advantage of alsa.
>  
> Retried Skype, and still no go on sending tones. Still limited to oss
> drivers.
>  
> Tom Ed
>  
> At Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:47:14 -0500,
> tomed at barq.itsco.com wrote:
> 
>>Does Gizmo support sending tones?
>>
>>With Skype, I've had a problem using the dialer to send tones to phonebots
> 
> and answering machines, whenever there's a "Press one to leave a message"
> situation.
> 
>>Especially with the linux client, which uses the OSS drivers and doesn't
> 
> seem to support duplex audio.
> 
>>I've noticed that Gizmo has support for alsa. Is it possible to send
> 
> tones?
> 
>>Thanks,
>>Tom Ed
>>
>>At Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:39:26 -0500 (EST),
>>burnett at pobox.com wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Rick DeNatale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>With all the VOIP devotees in the group, I was wondering if anyone has
>>>>played with gizmo?
>>>>
>>>>http://www.gizmoproject.com/
>>>
>>>Works fine. Be careful on the installer, though, at least for OS X: if
> 
> you
> 
>>>allow the Gizmo Project installer to scan your Address Book (there's a
>>>yes/no dialog box), it scrapes every email address and sends them all
>>>invites to download and install Gizmo.
>>>
>>>(No, I didn't, but I received an email from an acquaintance of mine
>>>because he wasn't cautious. I received three identical emails from him,
> 
> in
> 
>>>fact: one for each address he had on record for me.)
>>>
>>>Perhaps Gizmo's installer has changed since a couple of months ago, but
>>>that was its behavior then.
>>>
>>>Other than that unlovely installer feature, works fine for me, at least
> 
> on
> 
>>>OS X.
>>>
>>>
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