Twinkle (software)

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Twinkle
Developers Michel de Boer, Luboš Doležel
Initial release27 April 2005
Stable release
1.10.3 [1]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 19 February 2022
Repository
Written in C++
Operating system Linux
Platform Qt
Type VoIP
License GPL-2.0-or-later
Website twinkle.dolezel.info   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Twinkle is a free and open-source application for voice communications over Voice over IP (VoIP) protocol.

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Architecture

It is designed for Linux operating systems and uses the Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. For call signaling it employs the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). [2] It also features direct IP-to-IP calls. Media streams are transmitted via the Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) which may be encrypted with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and the ZRTP security protocols.

Since version 1.3.2 (September 2008), Twinkle supports message exchange and a buddy-list feature for presence notification, showing the online-status of predefined communications partners (provider-support needed).

Supported audio formats

See also

References

  1. "Twinkle 1.10.3 Latest". 19 February 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
  2. "Twinkle - soft-phone for making telephone calls". LinuxLinks.