Skype Developer Zone Blog

Version 1.0.32 contains fixes for Client.Focus and and several open UI dialog commands that did not previously work with Windows 4.x clients.

Click here to download.

The long awaited 4.1 (build 130) is now available for download on the Skype main site. Read more here.

Releasenotes for the Public API have been included to the API Reference.

The notes contain just two items this time:
* Deprecation of shared contact groups.
* Brand new multiobject/multiproperty get command.

CTSS ("Chat Translator and Speaker for Skype") translates Skype chat messages in 43 different languages in real-time.

Don't have Skype yet? Not a problem, while installing CTSS, CTSS will realize that you currently don't have Skype installed, and will open your default browser to the Skype download page so that you can quickly and easily download and install the latest Skype for Windows release. CTSS can even start Skype for you, if you start CTSS and Skype is not already started.

Why not send a link to this page to all your friends and they can quickly and easily now use Skype INSTANTLY just by installing CTSS? Maybe you can even all get together all at the same time by creating a Skype chat based in another language and practice learning new languages in a Skype Group chat? They will also be able to hear your chat messages and when you come online as well.

CTSS speaks your Skype chat messages in 10 different languages as well as a British accent. Call it, your Skype chat answering machine, with Caller Id for Skype chats.

CTSS also can speak your Skype contact status messages in 10 different languages as well as a British accent as well. Now you can here when your Skype contacts come online.

CTSS works with all Windows Skype releases currently supported and does not require the Extras Manager to run.

CTSS can be removed using your Add/Remove Programs from your Windows Control Panel at anytime.

Expand your Skype experience to a new global and worldwide level.

Hear contact status changes and Skype chat messages when you are busy and/or near your computer and decide when and if you wish to respond. Learn new languages at your own pace.

Make new friends, in far away places, and communicate with them INSTANTLY, not even knowing their language, using Skype and CTSS and the 43 different languages it supports.

Soon you will not only be able to chat with your new friends but also call them and speak with them as well, because CTSS can also teach you, how to speak new languages, as well as read and write them.

CTSS is FREE!



Click The Picture or This Link for More Information About CTSS

CTSS translates Skype chat messages for all of these languages below

Albanian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese Simplified
Chinese Traditional
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Galician
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Greek
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese

Enjoy - TheUberOverLord AKA Don Kennedy

The Hardware Certification Team is happy to announce the arrival of its latest lab to test and Certify routers - an important part of the overall Skype Experience. We are now inviting router manufacturers to submit their products for certification testing (fees will be waived for first 2 products submitted by each manufacturer). Test specifications can be found here. Our aim, through measuring basic performance and functionality, is to be able to recommend to our user base those routers that facilitate the best Skype experiences.

SDP People who deal with testing and updating Extras will be on holidays from 13th to 17th April and will not be available to update your extras over this period. Next Extras update will be on 23rd April.

Video: Skype’s US blogger Howard Wolinsky talks to Jason Fischl

Cross-posted from the main Skype blog.

I’m happy to report that Jason Fischl has recently joined Skype as Director of Developer Relations. Among other things, he’ll be heading up the Skype Developer Program.

Jason’s no newcomer to the world of VoIP. Before Skype, he was Chief Technology Officer at CounterPath, the leading developer of cross platform softphones for desktops and mobile convergence products for the likes of AT&T, BT and Verizon.

Personally, I’m thrilled about Jason joining. We have a great opportunity to revitalize our developer program and he has the skills and experience to lead this effort. He has an excellent track record working with industry standards bodies like the IETF in and is a thought leader in open source software development.

Last month, Skype made news when we offered our advanced SILK speech technology – which is incorporated into Skype 4.0 for Windows – to developers for free, and positioned it as a new standard for high quality audio.

Jason’s new role will allow Skype to do more in this direction, continuing to give third-party developers access to tools like SILK – and making Skype a platform for ground-breaking innovation.

Skype 4.0.0.215 light installer package doesn't include Extras Manager. We are working on fixing it. Next hotfix release will include the EM.

In the mean time we would like you to download the Skype with full installer.

Download Skype 4.0.0.215 full installer from this link - http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-full.
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Edited on 19.03.2009

This issue has been fixed in Skype 4.0.0.216 for Windows.

Some say Silence is the voice of complicity. I share the point that SDP as some of you knew has been a bit too quiet lately. But again, it does not mean at all we all left the Skype developer community or are working on projects that are not related to serve and support the developer community.

Actually we have improve and increase the team (I will let wolli commenting on that later I'm sure).

Many projects for developers are planned and on track to be delivered this year from our team (too early to share) but you know how much we like to share, so stay tune!

But for now, I thought I should thank someone most of you (Extra vendors) work with. Our dear Halina Mugame has decided to move on and actually to go and visit the other part of the Earth.

From Halina's words:

Mark Twain said: "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

So I'm off to follow my dream and discover the world -  living the backpacker life for a year or two. I'm starting with Oz - I'll land there at the end of next week

I want to thank you all  for everything - being patient when I started or made some mistakes, supporting me to do my job better, discovering and creating new things - and the rest. You Thank you!

It's with incredibly heavy heart we will say goodbye to her but guess what! she found her perfect backfill with the recruitment of Kristi Pakler.

From Kristi's words:

I am fresh at Skype, joined just this week. So I try to keep up with Halinas good work and make DevZone better and better. Newsletter and Blog will also be my areas. It's all new and exciting for me and I look forward to work with you all

We are very happy to welcome Kristi in our team and she will be working with most of you and of course we wish all the best to Halina.

We will talk to you very soon again.

Guest writer: Jonathan Christensen, Skype's GM for Audio and Video

Today marks a significant moment in the journey of Skype. Some of you may be aware of the SILK speech codec which is included as part of Skype 4.0 for Windows - it's what enables super-wideband audio and optimizes call quality, even in low network bandwidth environments. It transforms sound quality for Skype calls, and if you haven't already tried 4.0, believe me: you should.

I'm speaking at eComm today, and have some very special news to bring our developer community - we're making the SILK speech codec available for a royalty free license by third-party software and hardware developers soon.

What does this mean for the future of audio on the web?

SILK is Skype's signature super wideband audio codec which achieves super wideband audio quality using 50% less network bandwidth than previously required. It is the outcome of a three year long development process in the Skype labs, which focused on four things:

• improving audio bandwidth going from 8 kHz to 12 kHz, meaning that a SILK conversation sounds like you are in the same room as the person you are speaking with
• providing real-time bandwidth scalability to deal with degraded network conditions
• balancing codec optimization between voice, music and background noise, each of which can have an impact on the overall user experience
• delivering a robust solution that delivers a more consistent audio experience, regardless of network conditions and an individual user's voice signature

Making SILK available opens the door to its adoption as the standard across a huge range of platforms, applications and devices by web developers and chip manufacturers, as well as consumer electronics and mobile device manufacturers. By offering it for free, we are removing one of the biggest hurdles to adoption of wideband audio: cost. By doing so, I hope we'll establish a new industry-wide standard in speech processing: clearer, richer, and warmer audio.
When can I get my hands on the code?

We are still working on the details but for more information about SILK, please visit our SILK website.

Not sure if most have noticed but the Skype FUP ("Fair Usage Policy") has been updated. More here:

Click Here

There are some important additional daily limits for most subscriptions ,to be aware of, as you can see, with subscriptions along with the Monthly 10,000 Minute limitations with most Skype subscriptions, they are:

A maximum of 6 hours of subscription based calls per day.

No more than 50 different numbers in total can be called per day.

I quote from the FUP (" I love saying that ")

"Once these limits are exceeded Skype will charge normal rates and a connection fee for any additional minutes used. Subscriptions are for individual use only. Each subscription is to be used by one person only and is not to be shared with any other user (whether via a PBX, call centre, computer or any other means)."

This is why I created the SMFS "Subscription Monitor for Skype". Which will help you know when you are getting close to any of these limits so that if needed you can make sure you have some extra Skype credit in your account, if and when needed.

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