NAME

       auphone - a simple telephone client

SYNOPSIS

       auphone [-a servername] [-v volume] [-l latency] [-r filename]

DESCRIPTION

       auphone allows two-way real time voice communication between two audio servers.

OPTIONS

       The following options can be used with auphone:

       -a servername
               This option specifies the audio server to which auphone should connect.

       -v volume
               This is the volume, in percent, for the incoming ring sound.  The default is 15 percent.

       -l latency
               This  is the latency, in seconds, of the auphone connection.  A lower value will result in better
               real-time communications at the expense of possibly overloading the server (causing dropouts) and
               a greater network duty cycle.  A higher value will lessen the load on the server and decrease the
               network duty cycle but will increase the communications delay.  The default value is .25 seconds.

       -r filename
               You can personalize your incoming ringing sound using the -r option.  Simply specify the filename
               of an audio file to use for the incoming ring sound.  Note that this sound will be looped.

USAGE

       To place a call, enter the address of the audio server that you wish to connect  with  in  the  Who  text
       field.  Then hit RETURN or click on the Call button.  If the callee is accepting calls, you should hear a
       ringing  sound.   If the callee answers, the username and server address of the callee will be displayed.
       To disconnect, click on the Hangup button.

       To receive incoming calls, you must already be running auphone.  To answer an incoming call, click on the
       Answer button.  You may also determine who's calling before you answer  by  clicking  on  the  Caller  ID
       button.

       Once  you're  connected,  the  Volume slider controls the volume of the speaker output and the Input Gain
       slider and Input Mode toggle control the gain and mode of the microphone or line input.

AUPHONE AND THE ATHENA WIDGET SET

       auphone uses the X Toolkit Intrinsics and the Athena Widget Set.  For more information,  see  the  Athena
       Widget Set documentation.

ENVIRONMENT

       In  addition  to the standard toolkit environment variables, the following environment variables are used
       by auphone:

       AUDIOSERVER
               This variable specifies the default audio server to contact if -a is not specified on the command
               line.  If this variable is not set and the -a is not specified on the command line, auphone  will
               attempt to connect to the audio server running on the X Window System display.

SEE ALSO

       nas(1), X(1)

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1993 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

AUTHOR

       Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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