User:Verbalarea

Verbal Area (Verbalarea) An audio and video chat software with additional useful utilities like PC to Phone and PC to SMS. It is a free to use software and can be downloaded at verbalarea website.

Overview
Latest advancements in IT are biased towards VoIP technology. A lot of VoIP based services are being provided to internet users including live news, audio video conferencing, online movies etc. Audio Video chat is another service that has been developed in the past few years for providing users the real time chat opportunities, where they can talk and publish their cameras for others chatters publically or privately. Verbalarea is one such software with additional service like: -


 * PC to Phone Calling.
 * PC to SMS.
 * Secure PMs.
 * Language Translator.
 * Builtin Echo for Karaoke and live singing.
 * 24/7 Online help and support.
 * Users' moderated Public Chat Rooms.
 * Colored nick names to distinct users on different levels of service.
 * Secure file transferring.

Audio and Video Chat
Verbalarea uses the latest VoIP technology and audio codec for HD audio throughout the program. All public and private chat rooms and AV PMs are supported with high quality sound. The video streaming is upto 30 FPS. This streaming is as closer to as watching television.

The difference between Public Chat Rooms, Private Chat Rooms and Private Messaging is explained below: -

Public Chat Rooms
These are the Chat Rooms where any one can join and participate in room activities like text chat, sharing microphone and viewing/ publishing others/ their web cameras (webcams). There are following types of Public Rooms on Verbalarea: -

By Permanence

 * Permanent Rooms. these are user created paid rooms. These remain open permanently and when a user looks at the rooms' list in a sub category; where these rooms exist, these room show up even if there is no one present in these rooms. Owners of permanent rooms have the ability to restrict entry of specific users by mainting a list. These rooms have different capacity levels like 50 members to 500 members, based on the subscriptions made.


 * Temporary Rooms. These rooms show up in the list when opened by a room admin. When these are open, any one can join these rooms and can participate in chat through text, audio or video. These rooms close and do not show up in Rooms' List when an admin closes them or every one leaves these rooms. These are free rooms and maximum capacity of these rooms is 100 people.

By Permission to Enter

 * Open Rooms. Such rooms are open to public and any one can join these rooms with the exception of those whose entry has been restricted by the room admins through a bounce or a ban.


 * Locked Rooms. These rooms are locked by the room admins and only those people can join these rooms who have the room lockword supplied to them by room admins or any one else who has already joined the room through the lockword.

Private Rooms
Private rooms are opened by users and joining those rooms is only possible by accepting an invitation by someone already in such rooms. These rooms do not show in the rooms' list and close automatically when every one leaves the room. A maximum of 10 people can join a Private Room at one time and even if invited, 11th user can not enter unless one already in the rooms exits.

Private Messaging
Generally termed as PMs or IMs is basically a service that lets users chat in text/ voice/ video with another user one on one privately and securely. The PM window does not show up in any list and no one can know if one is doing PMs with someone else.

PC to Phone Calls
Calling any landline/ cell numbers in the world from PCs is an integral service of Verbalarea. Users are required to purchase the time (in terms of minutes) to use this service.

PC to Phone SMS
Verbalarea provides a handy service for its subscribed customers to send SMS to any cell/ SMS enabled landline phones.

Foreign Phone Numbers
Members of verbalarea can have international phone numbers. Any user calling on those numbers will be connected to Verbalarea members through the software and they can talk to eachother when the called number holder is online on Verbalarea.

Administration
Verbalarea is fully moderated chat software. To ensure that rating in the rooms is maintained and children safety is maintained, Verbalarea Administration is ensured in following ways: -

Rooms' Administration
Users' created public rooms are moderated by the room owners and any other person(s) deputed by them to administer their rooms. These users; when administrating their rooms, have an @ sign next to their nick names e.g., @Truley Yours, @Sidekick etc. They have the abilitiy to remove microphones, ability to publish videos, and/or ability to write in text from any user in the room to maintain order in their rooms. They can also bounce a user (a restrictio non any user to enter that room for 24 hours)or to ban a user (permanently restrict a userto enter a specific room).

Program Administration
Verbalarea staff is deputed on the software for Administration and help & Support. These staff members appers in red nicks with an @ sign and have different roles to perform. Their funtions are highlighted below: -
 * Verbalarea Volunteer Staff
 * They are volunteer staff of Verbalarea and are present in the help rooms 24/7 for helping users facing any difficulties in using the program features and funtions. They can assist users on sound issues, video issues, room creation and administring etc. Their nicks (just for examples) are as under: -


 * @Robust (va-host) . They are welcome hosts in help lobbies and language help rooms. They act as the front office of Verbalarea and can assist users on basic program features.
 * @Orthodox (va-help) . For help on support on general features on the program including audio/video set up, room admin functions etc.
 * @Extreme (va-support) . They can perform all the functions like va-help but are more exprienced on the program.
 * @Charlie (va-tech) . They can provide help on VA functions with detailed help on networking and firewalls etc.


 *  Verbalarea Office Staff 
 * Staff working in the main office and the development team. their nicks appear as @Forrest Gummp (verbalarea) . Those dealing with commerece are recognized on Verbalarea as @Estate (va-sales).


 *  Administrators
 * Verbalarea staff responsible for policy making, dealing with program functions and managing the users and volunteer staff are the Administrators of the program. Their nicks appear as: -


 * @Smart Wings (co-admin)
 * @AdminX