Sound applications

Telephony
Visioconference
Radio broadcasting

Telephony:

These applications allow one or more individuals to participate in real-time voice communications over the Internet. It is in many ways similar to IRC (Internet Relay Chat)

• freetel: shareware
  Description: enables you to conduct real-time full-duplex voice conversations via the Internet
  More Info: www.freetel.com
  

• Internet Phone (Full Duplex) 4.0 : Commercial
  Description: Excellent two way real-time voice chat in Half & Full Duplex with users list to choose.
  More info: www.vocaltec.com
  

• IRIS Phone: Shareware
  Description: IRIS Phone is a real-time Internet telephone which lets you talk as a conventional telephone over the Internet without incurring long distance charges. Full-duplex, can record conversations, has a "white pages" Caller ID, and answering machine, call waiting, text chat capability and more. Now supports video up to 5fps on a 28.8 connection.
  More info: www.irisphone.com
  

• Net2Phone : Freeware
  Description: A new technology which makes it possible to place domestic and international calls from a personal computer to any telephone in the world. You must have an account with them to use this, and they charge per minute for connections. The charge is typically less then a normal phone call.
  More info: www.net2phone.com
  

• PowWow : Freeware
  Description: Allows up to seven (7) people to chat via keyboard or voice, travel to web pages together, exchange files and photographs and play associated event sounds for whatever you choose.
  More info: www.tribal.com
  

• Web Phone : Shareware
  Description: It works exactly like a telephone. You dial the IP address of the person you want to reach. It can be also used as an answering machine. The design of the program is excellent.
  More info: www.itelco.com
  

visio-conference:

Televideo conferencing allows computer users to talk to one another and see each other, much as the new telephones. In addition to the software, users will each need a video camera.

• CineVideo/Direct : Shareware
  Description: CineVideo/Direct opens an exciting dimension for users of the Internet! CineVideo/Direct allows you to speak, with your own voice and live video, with other users all over the globe via modem, Internet, or your office LAN/WAN. CineVideo/Direct supports one-on-one conversation, broadcasts to multiple users, and video on demand(pre-recorded videos).
  More info: www.cinecom.com
  

• CU-SeeMe : Freeware
  Description: Video conferencing with audio on the net (but slow).
  More info: cu-seeme.cornell.edu
  

• Enhanced CU-SeeMe : shareware
  Description: Color multi-point videoconferencing over IP supporting all connection speeds. Includes video, audio, chat and shared whiteboard capabilities.
  More info: www.cu-seeme.com
  

• VidCall : Commercial software
  Commercial software
  Description: Video Conferencing with special hosts.
  More info: www.access.digex.net/~vidcall/vidcall.html
  

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  Radio broadcasting

• Internet Wave: Shareware
  Description: Internet Wave lets you listen to top quality, real-time audio through your web browser.
  More info: www.vocaltec.com/iwave.htm

• Streamworks: Shareware
  Description: Real-Time Streamed Playing - Play audio and video streams from the network with no wait for download. Works as a helper application for web browsers such as Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer, providing an easy to use, easy to design viewing experience. High Quality - StreamWorks Player provides the highest quality audio and video available on the net, capable of up to full screen, full color, full motion video with CD quality, 44KHz, audio.
  More info: www.xingtech.com/sw_now.html

• ToolVOX: Free beta release
  Description: Add high-quality speech audio to your Web pages. With ToolVox, it's as easy as embedding a graphic: your existing HTTP server can stream audio. ToolVox delivers 53:1 compression ratios - more than three times smaller than first-generation real-time Internet voice products.
  More info: www.voxware.com

• TrueSpeech Plug-In for Netscape: Freeware
  Description: Enables the efficient compression, storage, communications, and playback of digital speech reducing costs.
  More info: www.dspg.com

• VDOLive Plug-in: Freeware
  Description: A plug-in for real-time audio & video in Netscape 2.0.
  More info: www.vdo.net

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