[bksvol-discuss] Re: voice chat room available
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:38:38 -0800
Hi, Jackie, I've never heard of this site until you mentioned it. Do I have
to download another chat client to use it? I have: chatterbox, VIP
communicator, and Tlh conference which is used at accessibleworld.org, and I
believe it's from talking communities. Regards, Kim.
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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jackie McBride
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 10:46 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: voice chat room available
Again I suggest TeamTalk for this. No admin needed. Skype is really really
clunky when it comes to conferencing, e.g., if some1 drops out, the host has
to call them back, if the host computer crashes, the conference is up in
smoke, etc. & the audio quality tends to degrade severely when more than a
few folks are involved. I *know* this! I tried using it for our creative
writing group, & was never so glad to get rid of somethin in all my life!
I have no financial interest or otherwise in teamtalk. It's just a very
accessible voice chat client which yes, can also use text chat, send files,
etc. TTS can read the text messages, tell u who left the channel, etc.
I had been writing some scripts to help deaf-blind folks use it but lost 'em
when my machine crashed. Forgot to back up the jaws scripts folder. Blankety
blank blank blank. So now gotta start from scratch.
Unless, of course, Lynnskyi happened to keep the scripts I sent to her?
Now off to try to find a new fridg to replace the 1 in the garage that died
last week.
On 1/11/10, Lynn I <lynnskyi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The other thing I forgot to mention regarding Skype is that there are
> scripts which make Skype easy to use.
>
> I believe you can have up to thirty people on a chat. I can't imagine
> that we'd have more people than that for a chat party. Everyone has
> such busy schedules these days.
>
> We could simply post a time for a chat, and ask people to e-mail if
> they want to be included.
>
> Very simple, in my opinion.
>
> Blessings.
>
> Lynnsky
>
>
> Blessings.
>
> Lynnsky
>
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lynn I
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:31 AM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: voice chat room available
>
>
> Hi Denise!
>
> I use Skype. It works well for me. I think it would be a good solution
> too, with a lot fewer complications, but many people probably would
> disagree with that.
>
> I'd be willing to use Skype for our chats too, and think it would
> require a lot less effort. Skype is not a difficult program to
> download, install, and use--and it's free.
>
> Blessings.
>
> Lynnsky
>
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise
> Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:30 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: voice chat room available
>
>
> Yes, I know what you mean. (smile) Good ideas often turn into a lot
> more than we bargain for. The administrator part is going to be the
> toughest thing. I've emailled for more info about that. I'm wondering
> if it wouldn't be a whole lot simpler for folks to donwload Skype to
> their PCs and for a few folks who want to get together to to a
> conference call. I think up to 10 or 12 people can conference free of
> charge. It's hard to know if we'd have more than that in the chat room
> at a time anyway. For those not familiar with Skype, it's a free
> software that you down load onto your computer. Once it's installed
> whcih is done like any other software. You follow the steps and set up
your account. You need a microphone to plug into your computer.
> Microphones aren't expensive. Then calls can be made from your
> computer free of charge to another skype user. There are paid plans,
> but the free program works well also and it allows as I said a few people
to talk together free.
> It might be a place to start anyway to see how many people are
> interested before getting into the voice chat room thing which is
> going to require more time for some one organizing the chat. Just some
thoughts.
> Denise
>
>
> At 08:10 AM 1/11/2010, you wrote:
>
>
> Hi Denise!
>
> That was nice of you to check into this. *smile*
>
> Initially, when Jamie mentioned a possible chat party, I thought it
> was a good one, and after Susan L contacted Bob Acosta and asked
> whether we could use the Book Nook, I e-mailed him, last week, and
> asked whether we could use the Book Nook room last weekend. I received
> no response, and e-mailed Jamie, accordingly.
>
> I really hadn't planned to take the lead on this, but was willing to
> help to arrange it.
>
> I did visit the "politics" room at ourplace.acbradio.org, after
> Monica's post, and found the log in to be exactly like that of
> Accessible World chat rooms, so think it would be a good fit for a
Bookshare chat.
>
> I also thought of contacting Talking Communities, directly, to see if
> we could have our own chat room. That way, we wouldn't have to worry
> about conflicts with times and other scheduled events.
>
> This is becoming more of a project than I feel I can commit
> to--especially, since there would have to be an administrator for each
> chat. I'm willing to do what I can to help, but do not want to take
> responsibility for this entire project. I believe my time is better spent
proofreading.
>
> Blessings.
>
> Lynnsky
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [
> <mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Denise
> Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 12:22 PM
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] voice chat room available
>
> Hi all
> I've been in contact with one of the web masters from Blindsea a site
> which list software for those of us who use a cell phone screen reader
> called Talks on our Nokia phones. They have 3 chat rooms available
> 24/7. Stephen said we could use one. I've participated on discussions
> of accessible phone software there and it works just like the Talking
> Community works from Accessible world. So it's either a Talking community
room or very similar.
> If this sounds interesting to folks I'll get more details. If this is
> like Talking community someone will have to be willing to be the
> administrator and handle the behind the scenes stuff. This would be
> the case with Accessible world as well if we used one of their rooms.
> I'm not exactly sure who supposed to be handling this from this list,
> but let me know if you'd like to pursue this or would like me to get more
info about the set-up.
> Denise
>
> At 07:09 PM 1/10/2010, you wrote:
>
>
> I have Friday the 15th of January off, if someone is able to set up a
> place and a time I will try to make it.
>
> --
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