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Facebook Voice Chat On Its Way From Vivox

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If you have enjoyed the voice chat with Google Talk, you might like the fact that now you can voice chat with your Facebook friends as well.

Sometime in the next few weeks, Facebook users will begin to be able to have high quality voice conversations.

The technology is offered by Vivox, a Boston based company that provides the integrated voice service for virtual worlds like Second LIfe and EVE Online.

The service is currently in closed beta, which will allow Facebook users to have high-fidelity conversations with anyone on their friends list. Each user will have to download Vivox's plug-in. Once the plugin is installed, the service works almost seamlessly with Facebook, and is intended for everything from one-to-one chat to large group discussions.

Vivox plans to offer free dial-in numbers that will allow anyone to call into an existing facebook conversation. So you don't have to be a member of Facebook to participate in the voice conversations. That means almost any app, from games to utilities, can have a voice component. Vivox and Facebook are also planning to relese the APIs to thir-party developers who want to integrate voice into their applications. So it wouldn't be too long when you will be able to voice chat with your facebook friends using your iPhone or iPod touch.


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