How to Voice Chat on Google Talk with IChat

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How to Voice Chat on Google Talk with IChat

I am a new mac user, started using just yesterday. I need some help to configure my IChat for Google talk. I managed to configure ichat to do normal text chat thru the settings in google's website. but i am unable to do voice chat. i need help coz google talk is one application that i use extensively..

Macbook MB062, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Aug 18, 2007 12:45 AM

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CodLBi

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Aug 18, 2007 1:25 AM in response to AsifA

Have you looked here?

http://www.google.com/support/talk/bin/answer.py?answer=24076

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Untmdsprt

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Aug 18, 2007 5:08 AM in response to AsifA

You'll have to install Windows on your Mac to do voice chat with googletalk. From this website: http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html It looks like Google hasn't included Mac or Linux compatibility.

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AsifA Author

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Aug 18, 2007 5:16 AM in response to Untmdsprt

isnt there any other workaround with which i can use gtalk to voice chat thru some other client .....

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Aug 18, 2007 10:23 AM in response to AsifA

Gizmo ( http://www.gizmoproject.com) allows you to by using a proxy to convert SIP to Jingle. It also does the same thing for Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live/MSN Messenger users. I've no idea how well it works though.

We'll have to wait until Leopard's released before we know whether Apple has added Jingle support to iChat. If they have you'll be able to do audio (and possibly video) with Gtalk users natively. I wouldn't count on Apple doing this though.

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