Sunday, October 24, 2004
VoIP suitable for dial-up
Over the past few months, I have been receiving ocassional emails from my father-in-law with an audio message rather than text. Turns out he's been involved in the development of a product (Vqube) that enables a P2P connection for Voice Transfer (at the risk of not sounding like an anlayst, thats a disclaimer too!). It is remarkably clear even for dial-ups.
I was beginning to get more interested when this article appeared in BusinessWorld.
You can then call and talk to another online user who has also downloaded the product. You can send a voice mail if the person is not online. You can chat or hold conferences.
There are other players too in this market (see the article) and there are technical differences I am incapable of doing justice to. But its free to download from download.com and works really well for calls to India. I can also see several applications of the basic technology - voice searching on the web, for remote learning programs, as an inbuilt OS feature that summarizes all the news you want from a news- voice-bot, maybe even broadcast within net communities, a voice blog that gets to your listeners rather than the listeners/readers getting to the blog etc. It definitely promises a rosier future for your wrists!
I was beginning to get more interested when this article appeared in BusinessWorld.
You can then call and talk to another online user who has also downloaded the product. You can send a voice mail if the person is not online. You can chat or hold conferences.
There are other players too in this market (see the article) and there are technical differences I am incapable of doing justice to. But its free to download from download.com and works really well for calls to India. I can also see several applications of the basic technology - voice searching on the web, for remote learning programs, as an inbuilt OS feature that summarizes all the news you want from a news- voice-bot, maybe even broadcast within net communities, a voice blog that gets to your listeners rather than the listeners/readers getting to the blog etc. It definitely promises a rosier future for your wrists!
