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Does Fire support Voice Chat for Yahoo and AIM?

April 26, 2017aim chat support Voice yahoo

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Does Fire support Voice Chat for Yahoo and AIM?

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At this time Fire does not support voice chat with Yahoo and AIM. Unfortunately, the audio implementations used by these services are unique to the Microsoft Windows platform, and even the official Macintosh clients do not support it. Since the audio CODECs are proprietary and use patented technology, it is unlikely that Fire will be able to support them until the original manufacturers make them available on Mac OS X. (Ideally as a part of QuickTime, if Apple is listening ….