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Asked by PeeWee

How do I call friends who use Google Talk with Ekiga and is ekiga compatible with other Voip services such as Google Talk, iChat, etc?

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Best Hanusz leszek (leszek-skynet) said : 		#1

Hello,

Unfortunately Google Talk does not support the standard (SIP) for now.

The complete list of programs working with Ekiga is here:
http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Which_programs_work_with_Ekiga_%3F

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PeeWee (schofield0212) said : 		#2

OK, thanks for the help. My query is now with google and hopefully they will become SIP compatible one day.

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Yannick Defais (sevmek) said : 		#3

Hi,

Ekiga can use the SIP protocole, while GoogleTalk use the Jingle protocole.

1- You can use freeswitch to transcode SIP<->Jingle protocoles:
http://www.freeswitch.org/

2- You can use the free (as in beer) service gtalk-to-Voip to transcode:
http://www.gtalk2voip.com/

Regards,
Yannick

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Anders (andersja+launchpad-net) said : 		#4

Now available: Empathy supports voice chat with GTalk.
On a command line, type:
sudo aptitude install empathy

Info: http://live.gnome.org/Empathy