Can someone walk me thru this??

Im looking to get set up so that I can host a Poetry night- featuring my work .
I know I need to get tech stuff like Skype- but havent got the slightest idea how to do it.
Can someone walk me thru this process- help me figure out which is best product to buy.??
I belong to a group that walk me thru the rest in terms of ad space and setting up-
But need help on this end.
I would appreciate it
you can email me at [email]julieloo2@yahoo.com[/email] or message me here.
Thanks in Advance for your helping a newbie out.
julesZee

When do you plan to do this? On Book Island we have a class each Tuesday night and the leader 'talks' to us in voice (it's activated on a lot of sims). Skype works only if everyone has it I think...

You may want Skype, but not for poetry night. It is free. You can find the website and download source: Just Google for Skype.

You could use TeamSpeak. You can dowlload from here:
http://www.goteamspeak.com/index.php?page=downloads
You have to pay for hosting a server. I pay $48/ year for a server that will host 16 people
The voice capability is arriving. You can download a first looks viewer with voice. Works in some places. Does not work for everbody yet.
TM

I think you should get advice from people who stream music to SL. What you are doing is more like that than Skype or TeamSpeak.

Also, Consider the current FIRST LOOK Voice viewer. Search the SecondLife web site for it. it is just like the regular viewer, with voice capabilities.

You will need a decent microphone in any case.

Lastly, maybe you should try a text only voice night. You, and audience, and the poem in Chat. Chat is the current SL equivalent of voice, so why not use it?

Anyway, this sounds interesting, and if you see me in world, feel free to IM me. Better yet, get the FL voice viewer working, and call me

lee

Skype is at www.skype.com/skype/download/

Once there you follow the easy steps and in no time you have it downloaded and ready for use. It's free. There's a skype you need to pay for, that's not it.

Skype limits 5 people to a conference chat.

The FirstLook client with built in voice capabilities is ok.....

I use 'poetry scrolls', I load my poetry into a scroll, drop it on the ground and it 'reads' my poetry line by line at timed intervals into chat. Anyone having 'text to speech' on their computer, will get a 'voice' rendition of the poetry.

http://blog.slmusic.org/?page_id=40created


All the other fine suggestions notwithstanding, at this point, your best bet is probably to "stream" your poetry reading just like live musicians.

Above is (hopefully) a link to Jaycatt Nico's SL streaming music guide, which explains how it's done quite nicely.

If the above link doesn't work, go to your main account page and look on the left, under CONNECTIONS, MUSIC. Once that page comes up, the link to Jaycatt's primer is at the very bottom.

To stream, essentially you need three things:

1. Shoutcast (Nicecast for Mac) which isn't terribly expensive
2. A "stream" which is essentially bandwidth on a server somewhere
3. A chunk of land where you can change the stream.