This part of the app also includes voice settings where you can test your equipment, set up shortcuts, set call blocking and much more. Other options include voice messages, volume controls, and the option to select either speakerphones or a headset as your primary listening device. On the first tab you can find a large dial pad with the option to type a number and start a call, or you can select a number from your contacts list. Everything is where you would expect it to be and works as it should. The same goes for the user interface design, it is simple and not overly complicated. The look of the app is sleek and modern, and has an overall nice aesthetic. You don’t have to worry about adding accounts or fiddling with the configuration anymore, and you can start making your first calls. When you first open the Bria app, it’s all set up. The software is all set up and ready for action by the time you install the Bria app and log into it. I also appreciated that you have to connect your VoIP service during your account setup. I’m sure it would be appreciated by every beginner who has never set up a softphone before. The guide proved to be very helpful along the way, and should be a part of every softphone software. The installation and implementation process was fairly simple and fast. Bria directly integrated 12 VoIP service providers into the initial setup, so connecting them took a few moments. Next, I had to set up a voice account, enter my login, and finally download the app. Once I provided my details, I was welcomed to my account with a simple message telling me what to do next. It takes just a couple of minutes to complete, and the website didn’t force me to select any payment method or add credit card information. I selected the Bria Solo trial for the purpose of this review. I started by making a trial version first. The process starts with creating a new account at the Bria website. Bria can be very versatile which makes it excellent for single users, teams or even entire companies. It offers a sleek user interface with useful features, and even something extra for users who are willing to spend more money. When that happens there will be more options to translate between SIP and XMPP with Google Talk/Voice.Bria, previously known as X-Lite, is an easy-to-use softphone software suitable for users who want to get slightly more functionality. The Google Talk developer document does state they intend to implement the latest versions of Jingle and that would mean also supporting the latest version of ICE. To work around the mismatch in STUN/ICE versions between softphones that do support ICE and Google Talk/Voice would mean proxying the media and that’s not something the sipsorcery service is geared for. Unless something else crops up I think that’s pretty much the end of any attempt to integrate Google Voice XMPP calls with sipsorcery for a while. It also send the STUN binding request to initialise the media and as with the XLite it’s requests were rejected as malformed by the Google Talk/Voice XMPP server due to the newer STUN attributes. Update: Thanks to Avi Marcus I tried out the Blink softphone which like the XLite also supports ICE. If anyone is aware of a SIP softphone that supports ICE please let me know. I tried out the free version of the Zoiper softphone as well but it doesn’t look like it support any version of ICE so I didn’t get anywhere with it either. The problem then became the Google Voice server not recognising the STUN request because it implements an earlier version of STUN/ICE and it doesn’t recognise the STUN attributes set by the XLite. Once that was fixed the XLite did send a STUN request as part of the media initialisation. Update: it was my own malformed SDP packet that stopped the XLite from working properly. The Google Voice server isn’t interested in RTP until it’s done the STUN binding request exchanges. The specific issue is they don’t send a STUN binding request on the RTP socket and instead launch straight into sending their own RTP stream. The problem is the counterpath softphones don’t seem to be implementing ICE properly or perhaps are implementing an earlier version. I’m not having much luck getting the counterpath softphones, either Bria 3 or XLite 4, to work with the Google Voice media server.
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