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What is SkypeTalking?

SkypeTalking is the accessibility plugin for the Skype Internet telefony service. It uses Skype API and your screen reader's API to provide access to Skype. It reads incoming/outgoing Skype alerts, such as online statuses, incoming calls, file transfers and incoming/outgoing chat messages by using Skype API and your favorite screen reader! Therefore, No more need for scripting for individual screen readers! SkypeTalking will also simplify your Skype experience, by making various Skype features even much easier and more accessible to you! SkypeTalking is written in Python programming language. The additional current dependencies are Skype4Py (latest) and wxPython (latest).

SkypeTalking advantages

SkypeTalking allows simple access to Skype client, no matter what screen reader are you using. You can get the information about any Skype events such as calls, file transfers, chat messages or user status changes with no need to focus Skype window and leave the application you are working on. Monitor your active chats and file transfers, view the events history, change your Skype status on the fly, and even make calls by using SkypeTalking without touching the Skype window! Get easy access to your contact list by using the built-in Contacts Manager, and view your friends details by using the integrated Profile Viewer. SkypeTalking is available in many world-wide languages, including croatian, arabic, bulgarian, czech, danish, french, german, hebrew, hungarian, italian, japanese, latvian, malay, polish, portuguese, russian, spanish, turkish and chinese.

SkypeTalking discussed on the Global Voice

Listen to the interview with Hrvoje Katic that was made on April 20, 2010 and was continued on April 27, 2010 on the Inovations show of The Global Voice. Click here to download or listen to the interview 1 or Click here to download or listen to the interview 2

SkypeTalking mailing list

The SkypeTalking mailing list is a good place to get technical support and help from other SkypeTalking users as well as the main developer. It is also a good place to track SkypeTalking development and give your feedback and/or suggestions. To subscribe, send a blank email with Subscribe in the subject line to skypetalking+subscribe@googlegroups.com.

SkypeTalking source code repository

The SkypeTalking code repository is now available on bitbucket. You have to be familiar with Mercurial Distributed Version Control System in order to use this repository. If you are a developer, translator or documentation writer, you are more than welcome to register an account on a bitbucket.org and become a part of SkypeTalking team!

SkypeTalking nightly builds

If you are a beta tester, or just want to play with a fresh stuff currently being developed, you can visit the following link to get SkypeTalking Nightly Builds. Please note that these nightly builds are for testing purposes only, and are not recommended for general daily use. For general use, please download the latest stable version instead.