Topic 32 of 395: WebTalk
Wed, Jul 24, 1996 (11:07) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
WebTalk -- WebTalk is Quarterdeck's answer to Internet Phone
(IPhone). Like it and another of IPhone's competitors, Digiphone,
WebTalk allows you to carry out real-time telephone-like
conversations over the Internet and without a great sacrifice in
audio quality. The savings in long-distance charges can really add
up with any of these clients, and with the full-duplex capability of
WebTalk and IPhone, the delay between sender and receiver is
nearly negligible. Unfortunately, full duplex capability is currently
restricted to a limited number of sound cards, including Gravis
Ultrasound Max, Turtle Beach Monterey, Spectrum Office F/X,
AcerMagic S23, Ensonic (Windows 95), Media Magic Telemetry
32, and Crystal. Users of half duplex sound cards can still make use
of WebTalk; however, the delay between sender and receiver
becomes much more noticeable (and annoying) in half duplex mode.
WebTalk offers an interface and features similar to Internet Phone
and even includes a few extras like diagnostics and statistics
reports. WebTalk is substantially different in one area to IPhone --
whereas IPhone integrates an efficient and superior address book
and phone server into the client, WebTalk users will first need to go
through a web server in order to accomplish the same goal.
Fortunately, this isn't too difficult a task because Quarterdeck's
QMosaic web browser (v1.1) is also included with WebTalk. This
duo of apps is a strong alternative to IPhone but currently falls
short of IPhone's impressive service. One reason for this is IPhone's
ease of use and efficiency, as illustrated above. Another is Internet
Phone's audio quality, which is noticeably better than that of
WebTalk. Still, this version of WebTalk is a very early beta release
and is like to improve by vast margins when commercially released.
Pros: The next killer-app? Real-time voice communication achieved
on the 'net
Cons: Lacks Internet Phone's overall ease of use, efficiency, and
superior audio quality
New: Improved connection utility, new splash screen and expiration
date, bug fixes
Version Reviewed: 1.0w
Date of Review: 6/21/96 Reviewer: Forrest Stroud
Date Entered 7/7/96
4 responses total.
Topic 32 of 395 [apps]: WebTalk
Response 1 of 4: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jul 29, 1996 (12:14) * 2 lines
Audio quality is the name of the game in internet phone apps, hopefull it
will improve in the next release.
Topic 32 of 395 [apps]: WebTalk
Response 2 of 4: Peter Schoeffel (PvRS) * Fri, Nov 14, 1997 (17:02) * 1 lines
Trying to logon with WebTalk on 11/12/97, I found no rooms or participants displayed. Tec Reps seemed not to know if WebTalk is still supported. Is anyone using WebTalk successfully?
Topic 32 of 395 [apps]: WebTalk
Response 3 of 4: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Nov 16, 1997 (23:15) * 4 lines
I'm not sure, but if you do an Alta Vista search for David R. Woolley, his
website will tell you the current status of this and other conferencing
software.
Topic 32 of 395 [apps]: WebTalk
Response 4 of 4: Peter Schoeffel (PvRS) * Tue, Nov 18, 1997 (17:46) * 1 lines
Many thanks for the David Woolley suggestion. I'll try it
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