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  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#audio-video"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="audio-video"/>
    <desc>Call your contacts over the Internet.</desc>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.1" date="2009-08-02" status="stub"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.28" version="0.2" date="2009-08-07" status="review">
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      <e:review by="shaunm@gnome.org" date="2009-09-04" status="done"/>
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    </revision>
    <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="2.32" version="0.4" date="2010-09-09" status="review"/>   
    <revision pkgversion="3.8" version="0.4" date="2013-04-15" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email its:translate="no">milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>

    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>
  </info>

  <title>Start an audio conversation</title>

  <p>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.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>
        Right-click on the contact that you want to call and select
        <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
        see the total conversation time at the bottom of the window.
      </p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        To end the conversation, click the <gui style="button">hand up</gui>
        button.
      </p>
    </item>
  </steps>
  
  <note style="tip">
    <p>
      To turn an audio conversation into a video conversation, choose
      <guiseq><gui style="menu">Video</gui>
      <gui style="menuitem">Video On</gui></guiseq>.
    </p>
  </note>
  
  <section id="audio-meta-contact">
    <title>Start an audio conversation with a meta-contact</title>
    <steps>
      <item>
        <p>
          From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, right-click on the meta-contact.   
        </p>
      </item>
      <item>
        <p>
          Select the contact you want to have the conversation, and from the menu
          select <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.
        </p>
      </item>
    </steps>
    <note style="tip">
      <p>
        To recognize if a contact is a <em>meta-contact</em>, move your mouse on
        a contact in the <gui>Contact List</gui> 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.
      </p>
    </note>
  </section>

</page>
