Verbalarea is an audio/ video chat software for chatting in a group or 1on1 chatting (private messaging). It is a free chat software for any one age 10 and above. Verbalarea has categorized its chat rooms in different categories for users to easily identify their area of interest and join a specific chat room easily.
Chat rooms on Verbalarea are fully moderated. These chat rooms are created, opened and moderated by users and such users are knows as room owners (or room admins, if the room owner assignes the responsibility of moderationg their rooms to their friends). Room Owner and Room Admins have @ sign with their nicks and such admins can red dot (take away the ability to speak, write text and/ or publish cams in the room), bounce (kick the user from that room for 24 hours) or ban (restrict the entry of a user in their room till hey are unbanned again) from the rooms for better moderation of their rooms.
Verbalarea also has a word filter feature that stop any curse words appear in the G rated rooms. If a user types these words and wants to send these in the room, the text containing such words does not appear in the rooms at all.
Verbalarea is a freeware program but has some additional features which are available to those users who opt to purchase such special features. Such features include (but are not limited to) bannersless services, ability to join more than one rooms, ability to see more than one streaming cams in rooms etc. Such users are also allotted coloured nick names to depict what service of Verbalarea they are using. Following colors are being used by them (in order of payment and service features from lesser to higher): -
Black (Free nick for every one)
Blue (for males)/ Pink (for females)
Green
Orange
Purple
Program is managed by Verbalarea Support Staff (such staff has red nick names and can be reached by entering Verbalarea Help Lobby, where they are available 24/7). These program administrators can provide online assistance of different issues like chat room issues, audio and video set up support, issues with user accounts etc.
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Besides the excellent voice quality, Verbalarea has builtin echo set up that enables users to create echo environments while singing live/ karaoke. Arabic language support is also included in chat rooms and Private Messaging windows. A builtin language translater is also available for translating other languages but is not functional in the current build.
Verbalarea has been tested by Softpedia and has been certified as 100% safe program. The details of the certificate can be seen here. It takes very less resources and works perfectly fine with a Pentium x machine, 256 M RAM and a 56 kbps dial up internet connection. It supports windows xp as well as windows vista.
Criticism.
Some features do not work since the messenger is in beta stage.
Messenger works on windows only. MAC version is not available.