What is audio conferencing?
Audio Conferencing (or Audio Teleconferencing) is two-way interactive communication through the use of telephone or Internet technologies to transmit and receive voice signals.While standard telephone calls connect people in a point-to-point conversation, (and many telephone companies can now provide three-way calling features able to connect three telephones in a conversation), an Audio Conference provides the ability to connect many participants in the same conversation.Audio Conferences can be made using standard analog telephones, or ISDN digital telephones, cell phones, or the newest Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephones. Academic Technology Services can provide Audio Conferences with up to 48 caller participants, or mix telephone callers in video conferences (for guest speakers, etc.
