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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="audio-call">

  <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"/>
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    <revision pkgversion="2.30" version="0.3" date="2010-02-14" status="review"/>    
    <credit type="author">
      <name>Milo Casagrande</name>
      <email>milo@ubuntu.com</email>
    </credit>
    <license>
      <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
    </license>
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      <year>2009</year>
      <name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
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  </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>
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  <comment>
    <cite date="2009-09-02">Shaun McCance</cite>
    <p>Link to A/V support matrix</p>
  </comment>
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  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>From the <gui>Contact List</gui> window, click the
      <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/audio-input-microphone.png">audio call</media>
      icon next to the name of the contact you wish to call and choose <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.
       Alternatively, right click the contact and choose <gui style="menuitem">Audio Call</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>A new window will open. When the connection is established, you will
      see <gui>Connected</gui> at the bottom of the window, along with the
      total conversation time.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>
        To end the conversation, click on <gui style="button">Hang up</gui>.
      </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>, or click the
    <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/camera-web.png">video call</media>
    toolbar button to select it.</p>
  </note>

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