Comments on: Getting the point of Skype and chat https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/ Open information and technology. Tue, 16 May 2006 17:06:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ed Davies https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-470 Tue, 16 May 2006 17:06:32 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-470 Sound quality on Skype seems to be very much a function of the microphones/speakers in use. With reasonable headsets it’s as good as any phone except for the very slight time-lag, with builtin laptop microphones it’s awful. My use has been mostly within Europe (UK, Sweden, Switzerland) plus a few calls to Egypt or Hong Kong.

]]> By: david https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-469 Tue, 16 May 2006 14:40:34 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-469 I got Skype working on Linux once I figured out how to enable the mic in the mixer. I don’t know if the sound quality would be any better under Mac or Windows, though.

]]> By: Sylvain https://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-468 Tue, 16 May 2006 13:18:04 +0000 http://www.megginson.com/blogs/quoderat/archives/2006/05/16/getting-the-point-of-skype-and-chat/#comment-468 I’ve also found that Skype usually had average quality to the best (I tried to use on Linux, oh the interface works fine but not the audio which makes it pointless).

I gave a try to other products and I’ve found Gizmo to be the most reliable. I also love the audio quality delivered by GTalk (not mentionning its non bloated interface) but Gizmo has the advantage to work find under Linux as well.

There is also OpenWengo which seems to do fine (I haven’t tested it much though) and which is open source.

You might want to give those an ear 🙂

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