[access-uk] Re: using skype

  • From: "Jackie Cairns" <cairnsplace@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:27:59 -0000

Phew! Alex! many thanks indeed for all that very helpful information. I've got everything I need to get me going, so I'll try and see what happens. Quite how I'm going to have the time to fit all this in is another matter (smile) but ... well I'll have a bash. 


Thanks everybody for your help on and off list.

Jackie
----- Original Message ----- From: <alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: [access-uk] using skype



Hi Jackie

if you use jaws, there are excellent scripts that make skype even more
accessible from:
http://www.dlee.org/skype

Doug Lee has been involved with producing these for quite a while.  The
current version number is 550, but he is soon to release an upgrade to these which will be announced on the skype english list when he is ready. I am by 
no means a technical person, and there are lots of people who use skype
better than I do, you can send files to people with it as well as voice and 
text chat.  If you register your mobile phone you can send text messages
with it if you create a skypeout account, which means you can also use skype 
to ring ordinary landline and mobile phones around the world.  I have used
it to successfully talk to someone on my windows live contact list who comes 
from east China, and it only costs 1.4p per minute to ring a mobiel there.

Finally, I would recommend you go to:
http://www.marrie.org

this is Sarah Alawami's internet site and she is the skype english list
moderator, where she has some mp3 training modules you can download and
listen to which will assist you in familiarising yourself with skype.  She
has other links and information there to gaming for the blind if you are
interested in that, and stuff about her podcast feed.
A skype phone is a phone which you can use as a cordless phone or which you can use for skype. I don't have one, I prefer a USB microphone plugged into my computer. I have a logitech one which is quite literally plug and play. 
You might have to configure your sound settings once within skype if you
have some initial teething troubles, but once that's done, if you have to do 
it, you are away.  Skype to skype voice calls are completely free, and I
think my record of talking to someone on one single session is eight hours. 
Enjoy yourself when you are up and running, as if you have a fast stable
broadband connection, the voice quality is near cd quality.  If you don't
like the idea of a microphone, you could always go down the road of
purchasing a headset with a microphone.  Two of my friends use them
successfully and the voice quality is nearly as good as a desk microphone.
?Good luck.

Alex
skype name: grytpype2006
windows live messenger name: alex.thynne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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