The Top 3 Open Source Softphones in 2021

  • Sat, 05/16/2015 - 02:12 by aatif

<h3>The Top 3 Open Source Softphone Software Projects</h3>
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<b>What is softphone:</b>
A softphone is a software application used for making telephone calls over the internet and used over a computer instead of a hardware device. We also called Softphone a soft client. Usually, a Softphone required a headset that is connected to the sound card for a personal computer. For communication on both end side needed Voice over Internet Protocol(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP">VoIP</a>).

<b>Lets we see The Top 3 Open Source Softphone.<b>

Here we have listed the top three open-source softphones ranking wise and our criteria to rank the best three applications is based on Github http:/wwwgithub.org project stars + update frequency + latest development + maturity of the application in question however we are open to accepting any feedback from user personal experience.

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<h4 style="font-size: 17px; padding-bottom: 17px;">Jisti </h4>
Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. At the heart of Jitsi are Jitsi Video bridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting.
It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality. <a href="https://jitsi.org/" class="ext-link">https://jitsi.org/ </a>
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<h4 style="font-size: 17px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Ekiga</h4>
Ekiga is an <a href="https://opensource.org/">open source</a> SoftPhone, Video Conferencing and Instant Messenger application over the Internet.
It supports HD sound quality and video up to DVD size and quality. <a href="http://ekiga.org/" class="ext-link">http://ekiga.org/ </a>
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<h4 style="font-size: 17px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Mumble</h4>
Mumble is an Open Source, low-latency and high-quality voice-chat program written on top of Qt and Opus.

There are two modules in Mumble; the client (mumble) and the server (murmur). The client works on Win32/64, <a href="https://www.linux.org/">Linux</a> and Mac OS X, while the server should work on anything Qt can be installed on.

<a href="https://www.mumble.info/" class="ext-link">https://www.mumble.info/ </a>
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