Website voice communication with Javascript??

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  • Obbligato

    Website voice communication with Javascript??

    Wellll...I'm hoping this is on topic, because if it is, it means there
    is a Javascript solution to what I want to do. At the very least it
    seems like I need *some* sort of client side script. What I want to do
    us allow multiple users in a chat room to talk to each other,
    regardless of what browsers or OS or whatever they are using. I also
    want to be able to integrate this chat script, whatever it is, to my
    own website, so that the controls can be accessed from within the chat
    room pages, and the members of the chat room can be automatically
    connected to each other.

    For various reasons I think that a lag of up to a few seconds between
    the time someone speaks and the time that the others hear them is
    acceptable. Given that, it seems that something relatively primitive
    might work. Is there any open source stuff out there that does this?
    If not, I would love to try my hand at writing the script myself, if
    someone could just point me to tuturials, books, websites, gurus,
    whatever, where info on how to do this might be found. I know PHP and
    HTML fairly well, but would be getting into anything else from
    scratch.

    PS: I know that you can do voice conferencing with Netmeeting, Yahoo's
    voice chat feature, Roger Wilco, and all that. The trouble with those
    is that they require everyone to be using the same software, or the
    same OS, or both.
  • David Dorward

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    Re: Website voice communication with Javascript??

    Obbligato wrote:
    [color=blue]
    > Wellll...I'm hoping this is on topic, because if it is, it means there
    > is a Javascript solution to what I want to do. At the very least it
    > seems like I need *some* sort of client side script. What I want to do
    > us allow multiple users in a chat room to talk to each other,[/color]

    I'm almost entirely certain that JavaScript isn't going to let you do this.
    You are going to need something capable of reading from the microphone
    (assuming the user has one), which I suspect means a Java Applet or Flash.


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