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RoomTalk

Get Closer No Matter How Far
http://www.roomtalk.net/

RoomTalk.net is a unique web conferencing provider, specializing in offering quality voice conferencing over dial-up lines to the Middle-Eastern and Arab-speaking extended community as well as to other international end-users around the world.

The RoomTalk web site (http://www.RoomTalk.net/) effectively targets an international community by offering its core contents in six different languages including English, French, German, Arabic, Dutch and Swedish.

Launched in 2002 RoomTalk provides access to the unique voice conferencing and web touring tool powering VCOM Central, Orbitalk, Voxwire and Webconference.com.

RoomTalk seems to be targeting a middle-eastern community of individuals and professionals who need to Web conference with the support of a technology that well manages the slow and unreliable dial-up connections available in those parts of the world.

Though the pricing may be different, the core technology facilities available through RoomTalk are exactly the same ones accessible through a monthly account with VCOM Central, Orbitalk, Voxwire and limited to voice to those of WebConference.com.

The key benefit of the technology behind RoomTalk is the excellent quality of the voice conferencing module which allows dial-up users to easily voice-communicate with no hindrance.

This core voice conferencing technology, which leverages an audio compression codec that requires less than 20 Kbps of bandwidth (!), is well complemented by a text chat facility, a Web touring module, a file send utility and basic moderator features. An application sharing facility is also integrated but performance and reliability of this module still leave something to be desired.

Use and access are extremely easy and simplified and performance is in most cases excellent.

On the weak side only some points:

The interface layout has some problems and when it is resized, the next time a session is run the interface will not lay out on screen correctly (this is a problem afflicting all of the above mentioned products utilizing this technology).

Web touring is easy and straightforward to use but there is no easy way to store and access needed URLs.

A general information page with details about the different facilities integrated in this web conferencing tool is accessible at:
http://www.roomtalk.net/voicechat.htm
http://www.roomtalk.net/services.htm

A set of demo rooms, labeled 1 through 5, are accessible for you to test the voice quality of this technology at:
http://www.roomtalk.net/support.htm
Differently than what is available through the demo rooms of RoomTalk's competitors, the text chat and Web touring facility are both enabled for you to test.

Please note that you can invite a friend or a colleague to the above URL and can fully test the voice conferencing quality of this tool. (To talk hold down the left Ctrl key).

Customer support is quite limited on the site and technical troubleshooting is covered by this page:
http://www.roomtalk.net/difficulty.htm

A handy list of shortcuts commands that can be utilized during a live RoomTalk session can be freely accessed at:
http://www.roomtalk.net/schedule.htm

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