How to use GTalk VoiceConference

GTalk is a very popular instant messaging software. It provides many useful features. Two of those features are GroupChat and VoiceChat.

Anyways, there is a small limitation that these two features cannot be used in combination i.e. VoiceConference

Here is a small trick to use VoiceConference:

• Open up a copy of Google Talk on all the computers which you wish you conference
• After a instance is opened up in all computers, make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end add /nomutex (to do this right click on the new shortcut icon and edit the target field; it should look something similar to “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex assuming your gtalk installation is done in default location)
• Now open up the second instance on every computer using the shortcut. Nomutex argument will let gtalk to open multiple instances.
• Now, we need to create a chain to connect all the systems. Let us assume we do this for 3 participant now (say A, B and C)
• Participant A should call Participant B via one instance
• Participant B will call Participant C on other instance
• Participant C will connect to Participant A to form a loop
• Now all participants in the conference are connected