Skype Developer Zone Blog

Developer Zone and Jira will be unavailable due to planned maintenance work from 12:00 GMT tomorrow (2nd of October 2009). We expect it to be up and running again after two hours around 2 PM GMT.

Skype has always focused on delivering products that delight our users. For many years, the Skype Developer Program has offered a wide range of tools that allow third-party developers to create hardware and software that work with Skype. Many innovative applications have been developed and distributed over the years and we feel fortunate to have worked with some of the best developers anywhere.

Despite the incredible breadth of Extras developed for Skype, simply not enough people were using them to justify our continued support of the Extras programme. Unfortunately, effective today, we will shut down the Skype Extras programme.

Continue reading "The future of Skype Extras" »

Have you seen small presence icons while browsing the web lately? If so, then you have probably experienced the Skype name recognition feature in action. With that feature enabled you will be able to see if your friends are online on Skype even when you are not actively using Skype. For example you will see the Skype presence in Facebook as in this video:

We didn’t build this feature just for Facebook, though! You will see it on any web-page where people’s names appear. Of course it works well in Salesforce (another video) and other online CRM systems, as well as in webmail and other social networking sites. You will only presence next to the names of people who’s full name exactly match the full name in Skype. We don’t do magic at Skype yet, so we will not be able to match if the name used in Facebook and in Skype are different. We hope you will find this feature useful.

SDP people who deal with testing and updating Extras will be on
holidays from 20th of July to 9th of August and will not be available
to update your extras over this period. The last update before pause
is scheduled for 16th July, next one will be on 13th August. Please
take that into consideration when you make your plans.

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.