Gtalk Voice chat on Ubuntu

After such a long wait, today I could talk to one of my friend in India through Gtalk on linux. I am talking about voice chat. I am very much impressed with Ubuntu. Its amazing. Things had never been so easy and comfortable.

Presently Empathy supports voice calls through gtalk. The installation instructions are available here. Just for convenience, I am reproducing the set of instructions necessary to get you started with it. Visit the above site for user comments and more information if things don't work out for you.

Use Synaptic package manager, go to Settings->Repositories->Third Party Software and then click Add and add the following line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/telepathy/ubuntu hardy main

Then, Install the following packages using Synaptic Pagakage manager.

1. Empathy
2. telepathy-gabble
3. telepathy-mission-control
4. telepathy-stream-engine

After successful installation, open the Empathy application and use the menu, Edit->Accouts to add your gtalk account. Enjoy using voice chat with your favorite gtalk account using Empathy in Linux.

Voice Chat on Linux

I am looking for a solution for Linux. Very lately I have realized the power of voice chat. I am frequently carrying out research discussions with my guide who is right now abroad and he is going to be there for a long time. Everytime he wishes to chat with me, I am forced to switch to an windows machine where gtalk is installed.

I tried my hands at Kopete, pidgin, ekiga, jabbin, gaim, psi etc. without much success. While text messaging is supported, I failed to configure voice chat on it. I know that voice chat is supported on skype. However, I don't want to create another account for it. Moreover I am google fan and won't like to switch over to skype so soon. I would keep updating this thread about the improvements I made in this regard.