[CUBE] Audio/Voice conferencing on the web

[Richard Clark]

With Yahoo there is no audio for the mac just video works well but very 
slow compared to ichat.
On 8 Feb 2004, at 4:50 AM, gooddog at interlync.com wrote:

> Folks;
>
> A friend of mine and I are collaborating on some kids stories, and 
> want to do a lot of story audio conferencing over the internet. We 
> both have high speed connections (me dsl, him cable), and have tried 
> to use Yahoo Messenger, but cant' make it work. Do I need a special 
> headset with a microphone made for the computer in order to connect to 
> him and talk? What am I missing?
>
> I'm on a Mac with Panther. He's on Windows and XP.  His menu choices 
> include "enable or activate voice", but I have nothing like this.  Has 
> anyone had experience with this or with any other method that's 
> successful?
>
> We have a shareware called Squidcam, but we haven't been able to make 
> this work. We're working with the guy who made it up to help our 
> cause. So far, though, we are dead in the water.
>
> It's frustrating because I've been told by the people at the Apple 
> Store here that "with yahoo! and msn it's real easy to do voice 
> conferencing with a mac."  So far, nothing.
>
> Unless this is interesting to the group, please email me off-list.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mark