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The author says in another post from 2017 that they had to abandon Google Voice when they moved to Europe. I had no idea. I'm in Europe and I've used Google Ha
by INTPenis 8y ago
The author says in another post from 2017 that they had to abandon Google Voice when they moved to Europe. I had no idea.
I'm in Europe and I've used Google Hangouts to audio and video call people with Android phones for longer than 2017 so I have no idea what the author is talking about. Clearly Google Voice must be something different because Hangouts most likely "dials" over data.
Quick googling says Google Voice is PC to PC so no mention of SIP or GSM being used.
Either way I think using IRC seems a bit outdated, especially when you're trying to accomodate non-technical people.
XMPP would give more support for modern clients like Conversations for example. And it's just as easily scriptable as IRC imo. You don't actually touch XML, you use client libraries. So even if IRC is simple on the protocol level XMPP is just as simple to script with.
- kilburn 8y agoThe fact that google voice works in Europe is not the authors' qualm. His qualm is that you cannot get an european number from google voice, nor call european numbers for free, nor send sms messages to them, etc.. It just "doesn't work" when your life is european-centric.
- soneil 8y agoGoogle Voice does phone termination, but only in the US & canada. Like how you'd normally consider skype device-to-device, but you can pay extra to get a skype number and make & receive calls to/from other phone numbers? Just like that, but with a bunch of extra features (automatically transcribing voicemails is the one I heard the most about). GV exists in Europe, but the call termination part (which doesn't) sounds like it'd be very central to the usage he describes replicating.
- Boulth 8y agoFor XMPP there is also https://jmp.chat https://jmp.chat