VoxSwap Integrates Skype’s Video

Users of VoxSwap social network can now watch education and entertainment videos in a wide selection of language through Skype's video being offered and integrated in the service.  This development will enable users to hear, see and at the same time type text of the language are seeking to learn.

Although, VoxSwap is a social network it differs from other in the sense that it is for people learning and practicing languages.  As such they can add videos to the service at the press of a button to help one another learn and practice each other's languages. Also the ability of user to hear and see during the period of chatting will help in acquiring knowledge proper pronunciation about the languages they are learning.

 

Not until the integration of Skype, chatting through this medium had been limited to text, users can now talk to one another and even video conference at no cost. This new features of video and Skype will sit alongside a virtual keyboard, which offers characters and accents users may not have on their keyboards, as well as a built-in Google Translator for understanding phrases and words.

Co-founder Sean Hargrave believes this is a major step forward for the site. Sean set up the site with his wife, Nicole, at the start of 2008 to give social networking a purpose.

Rather than compile lists of friends and have virtual snowball fights, VoxSwap allows people to talk in multiple languages so users can help one another progress - hence the site's motto of 'make friends, learn a language'.

 

Included with the upgrade to the site are new features to improve the internal email system and allow people to take more control over their contact with one another. These additions include the ability to delete emails and comments people no longer want on their profile or mail box, as well as the ability to block user they wish no longer wish to get in touch with.