Ekiga, the Glossary
Ekiga (formerly called GnomeMeeting) was a VoIP and video conferencing application for GNOME and Microsoft Windows.[1]
Table of Contents
63 relations: Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec, Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband, Advanced Linux Sound Architecture, Advanced Video Coding, Blink (SIP client), Bonjour (software), C (programming language), C++, Call forwarding, Call transfer, CELT, Codec, Comparison of VoIP software, Contact list, Damien Sandras, DTMF, Empathy (software), FireWire camera, Free software, Full Rate, G.711, G.722, G.723.1, G.726, G.728, G.729, GNOME, GNOME Evolution, GNU General Public License, H.261, H.263, H.323, Integrated Performance Primitives, Intel, Internet Low Bitrate Codec, Jami (software), Jitsi, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, List of free and open-source software packages, Message-waiting indicator, Microsoft, Microsoft NetMeeting, Microsoft Windows, MPEG-4, Open Phone Abstraction Library, Open Sound System, QuteCom, Session Initiation Protocol, SIMPLE (instant messaging protocol), Speex, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- Free VoIP software
- Free instant messaging clients
- Instant messaging clients that use GTK
- Université catholique de Louvain
- Videoconferencing software that uses GTK
- Voice over IP clients that use GTK
Adaptive Multi-Rate audio codec
The Adaptive Multi-Rate (AMR, AMR-NB or GSM-AMR) audio codec is an audio compression format optimized for speech coding.
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Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband
Adaptive Multi-Rate Wideband (AMR-WB) is a patented wideband speech audio coding standard developed based on Adaptive Multi-Rate encoding, using a similar methodology to algebraic code-excited linear prediction (ACELP).
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Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers.
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Advanced Video Coding
Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. Ekiga and Advanced Video Coding are videotelephony.
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Blink (SIP client)
Blink is a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) client distributed under the Blink license (GNU GPLv3 with an exception to permit the inclusion of commercial proprietary modules).. Stand 13. Dezember 2012 The software is written in Python for macOS's Cocoa, with a later port to Qt for supporting Microsoft Windows, Linux, AmigaOS. Ekiga and Blink (SIP client) are free VoIP software.
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Bonjour (software)
Bonjour is Apple's implementation of zero-configuration networking (zeroconf), a group of technologies that includes service discovery, address assignment, and hostname resolution.
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C (programming language)
C (pronounced – like the letter c) is a general-purpose programming language.
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C++
C++ (pronounced "C plus plus" and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
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Call forwarding
Call forwarding, or call diversion, is a telephony feature of all telephone switching systems which redirects a telephone call to another destination, which may be, for example, a mobile or another telephone number where the desired called party is available.
Call transfer
A call transfer is a telecommunications mechanism that enables a user to relocate an existing telephone call to another phone or attendant console, using a transfer button or a switchhook flash and dialing the required location.
CELT
Constrained Energy Lapped Transform (CELT) is an open, royalty-free lossy audio compression format and a free software codec with especially low algorithmic delay for use in low-latency audio communication.
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Codec
A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.
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Comparison of VoIP software
This is a comparison of voice over IP (VoIP) software used to conduct telephone-like voice conversations across Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. Ekiga and comparison of VoIP software are VoIP software.
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A contact list is a collection of screen names.
Damien Sandras
Damien Sandras is known in the free software community due to his work on GNOME, more specifically on Ekiga, the leading open-source softphone for the Linux desktop.
DTMF
Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and switching centers.
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Empathy (software)
Empathy was an instant messaging (IM) and voice over IP (VoIP) client which supported text, voice, video, file transfers, and inter-application communication over various IM communication protocols. Ekiga and Empathy (software) are discontinued software, free VoIP software, free instant messaging clients, GNOME Applications, instant messaging clients that use GTK, videotelephony and voice over IP clients that use GTK.
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FireWire camera
FireWire cameras use the IEEE 1394 bus standard for the transmission of audio, video and control data.
Free software
Free software, libre software, libreware or rarely known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions.
Full Rate
Full Rate (FR or GSM-FR or GSM 06.10 or sometimes simply GSM) was the first digital speech coding standard used in the GSM digital mobile phone system.
G.711
G.711 is a narrowband audio codec originally designed for use in telephony that provides toll-quality audio at 64 kbit/s.
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G.722
G.722 is an ITU-T standard 7 kHz wideband audio codec operating at 48, 56 and 64 kbit/s.
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G.723.1
G.723.1 is an audio codec for voice that compresses voice audio in frames.
G.726
G.726 is an ITU-T ADPCM speech codec standard covering the transmission of voice at rates of 16, 24, 32, and 40 kbit/s.
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G.728
G.728 is an ITU-T standard for speech coding operating at 16 kbit/s.
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G.729
G.729 is a royalty-free narrow-band vocoder-based audio data compression algorithm using a frame length of 10 milliseconds.
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GNOME
GNOME, originally an acronym for GNU Network Object Model Environment, is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems.
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GNOME Evolution
GNOME Evolution (formerly Novell Evolution and Ximian Evolution, prior to Novell's 2003 acquisition of Ximian) is the official personal information manager for GNOME.
GNU General Public License
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses, or copyleft, that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software.
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H.261
H.261 is an ITU-T video compression standard, first ratified in November 1988.
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H.263
H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videotelephony. Ekiga and H.263 are videotelephony.
See Ekiga and H.263
H.323
H.323 is a recommendation from the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) that defines the protocols to provide audio-visual communication sessions on any packet network. Ekiga and H.323 are videotelephony.
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Integrated Performance Primitives
Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is an extensive library of ready-to-use, domain-specific functions that are highly optimized for diverse Intel architectures.
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Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and incorporated in Delaware.
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Internet Low Bitrate Codec
Internet Low Bitrate Codec (iLBC) is a royalty-free narrowband speech audio coding format and an open-source reference implementation (codec), developed by Global IP Solutions (GIPS) formerly Global IP Sound (acquired by Google Inc in 2011).
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Jami (software)
Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone) is a SIP-compatible distributed peer-to-peer softphone and SIP-based instant messenger for Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Ekiga and Jami (software) are free VoIP software, free instant messaging clients, GNOME Applications, Groupware, instant messaging clients that use GTK, Online chat, Teleconferencing, VoIP software and voice over IP clients that use GTK.
Jitsi
Jitsi (from жици — "wires") is a collection of free and open-source multiplatform voice (VoIP), video conferencing and instant messaging applications for the Web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. Ekiga and Jitsi are free VoIP software, free instant messaging clients, videotelephony and VoIP software.
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Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open, vendor-neutral, industry standard application protocol for accessing and maintaining distributed directory information services over an Internet Protocol (IP) network.
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List of free and open-source software packages
This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.
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Message-waiting indicator
In telephony, a message-waiting indicator (MWI) is a Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) term for an FSK-based telephone calling feature that illuminates an LED on selected telephones to notify a telephone user of waiting voicemail messages on most North American public telephone networks and PBXs.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Microsoft NetMeeting
Microsoft NetMeeting is a discontinued VoIP and multi-point videoconferencing program offered by Microsoft. Ekiga and Microsoft NetMeeting are Teleconferencing and videotelephony.
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Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.
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MPEG-4
MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. Ekiga and MPEG-4 are videotelephony.
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Open Phone Abstraction Library
In the field of VoIP networking, the Open Phone Abstraction Library (OPAL) continues the open-source openh323 project to support a wide range of commonly used protocols used to send voice, video and fax data over IP networks rather than being tied to the H.323 protocol.
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Open Sound System
The Open Sound System (OSS) is an interface for making and capturing sound in Unix and Unix-like operating systems.
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QuteCom
QuteCom (previously called WengoPhone) was a free-software SIP-compliant VoIP client developed by the QuteCom (previously OpenWengo) community under the GPL-2.0-or-later license. Ekiga and QuteCom are free VoIP software, free instant messaging clients and videotelephony.
Session Initiation Protocol
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for initiating, maintaining, and terminating communication sessions that include voice, video and messaging applications. Ekiga and session Initiation Protocol are videotelephony.
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SIMPLE (instant messaging protocol)
SIMPLE, the Session Initiation Protocol for Instant Messaging and Presence Leveraging Extensions, is an instant messaging (IM) and presence protocol suite based on Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) managed by the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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Speex
Speex is an audio compression codec specifically tuned for the reproduction of human speech and also a free software speech codec that may be used on voice over IP applications and podcasts.
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STUN
STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT; originally Simple Traversal of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) through Network Address Translators) is a standardized set of methods, including a network protocol, for traversal of network address translator (NAT) gateways in applications of real-time voice, video, messaging, and other interactive communications.
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Theora
Theora is a free lossy video compression format.
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Tox (protocol)
Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. Ekiga and Tox (protocol) are free instant messaging clients, instant messaging clients that use GTK, videotelephony and VoIP software.
Twinkle (software)
Twinkle is a free and open-source application for voice communications over Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol. Ekiga and Twinkle (software) are free VoIP software.
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Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software.
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UCLouvain
UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain. also known as the Catholic University of Louvain, the English translation of its French name, and the University of Louvain, its official English name) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university. Ekiga and UCLouvain are Université catholique de Louvain.
Unix-like
A Unix-like (sometimes referred to as UN*X or *nix) operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, although not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification.
URL
A uniform resource locator (URL), colloquially known as an address on the Web, is a reference to a resource that specifies its location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it.
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USB
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard that allows data exchange and delivery of power between many types of electronics.
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Video4Linux
Video4Linux (V4L for short) is a collection of device drivers and an API for supporting realtime video capture on Linux systems.
Videotelephony
Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. Ekiga and Videotelephony are Groupware and Teleconferencing.
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for voice calls for the delivery of voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. Ekiga and voice over IP are videotelephony.
Zero-configuration networking
Zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) is a set of technologies that automatically creates a usable computer network based on the Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) when computers or network peripherals are interconnected.
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See also
Free VoIP software
- Asterisk (PBX)
- Blink (SIP client)
- Coccinella (software)
- Ekiga
- Elastix
- Empathy (software)
- FreePBX
- FreeSWITCH
- GNU Gatekeeper
- GNU SIP Witch
- Issabel
- Jami (software)
- Jitsi
- KDE Telepathy
- Kamailio
- Linphone
- LinuxMCE
- List of free and open-source Android applications
- MicroSIP
- Movim
- Mumble (software)
- OSIP
- QuteCom
- Signal (messaging app)
- SipXecs
- Sipdroid
- Telephone (application)
- Trixbox
- Twinkle (software)
- Wengo
- Wire (software)
- Xx messenger
- Yate (software)
Free instant messaging clients
- AMSN
- Adium
- Ayttm
- BitlBee
- Centericq
- Climm
- Coccinella (software)
- Cryptocat
- Ekiga
- Element (software)
- Empathy (software)
- Fama IM
- Finch (software)
- Fractal (software)
- Gajim
- IGap
- Instantbird
- Jami (software)
- Jimm
- Jitsi
- KDE Telepathy
- Kopete
- Miranda NG
- Movim
- Naim (software)
- Pidgin (software)
- Profanity (instant messaging client)
- Psi (instant messaging client)
- QuteCom
- Retroshare
- Ricochet (software)
- Session (software)
- Signal (messaging app)
- Telepathy (software)
- TextSecure
- Tkabber
- TorChat
- Tox (protocol)
- WASTE
- Wengo
- Wire (software)
- Xx messenger
- Zephyr (protocol)
Instant messaging clients that use GTK
- Ayttm
- Ekiga
- Empathy (software)
- Fractal (software)
- Gajim
- Gossip (software)
- HexChat
- Jami (software)
- Pidgin (software)
- Smuxi
- Tox (protocol)
Université catholique de Louvain
- Académie Louvain
- Aula Magna (UCLouvain)
- Biéreau Farm
- CHU UCLouvain Namur
- Center for Operations Research and Econometrics
- Centre d'Etudes des Crises et Conflits Internationaux
- Clinique Saint-Jean
- Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc
- Ekiga
- Guy R. Cornelis
- Higher Institute of Philosophy
- Hoover Chair
- Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT
- Laboratory for the Analysis of Organisational Communication Systems
- Louvain School of Engineering
- Louvain School of Management
- Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron
- Marie Haps Faculty of Translation and Interpreting
- Martin Moors
- Orchestre Symphonique des Étudiants de Louvain-la-Neuve
- Progressive Congolese Students
- Saint-Louis University, Brussels
- Theme-based shared flat (kot-à-projet)
- UCLouvain
- UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe
- UCLouvain Charleroi
- UCLouvain FUCaM Mons
- UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning
- UCLouvain Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication
Videoconferencing software that uses GTK
- Ekiga
Voice over IP clients that use GTK
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekiga
Also known as Ekiga Softphone, GnomeMeeting.
, STUN, Theora, Tox (protocol), Twinkle (software), Ubuntu, UCLouvain, Unix-like, URL, USB, Video4Linux, Videotelephony, Voice over IP, Zero-configuration networking.