Call your contacts over the Internet. Milo Casagrande milo@ubuntu.com

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 Start an audio conversation

You can call your contacts and have an audio conversation with them. This features only works with certain types of accounts, and it requires the other person to have an application that supports audio calls.

From the Contact List window, click the video call icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose Audio Call.

A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will see Connected at the bottom of the window, along with the total conversation time.

To end the conversation, click on Hang up.

To turn an audio conversation into a video conversation, choose Video Video On.

Start an audio conversation with a meta-contact

From the Contact List window, right-click on the meta-contact.

Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu select Audio Call.

To recognize if a contact is a meta-contact, move your mouse on a contact in the Contact List window, and stop over it for a second: a small pop-up message will appear showing the number of the contacts that form the meta-contact.