JAB, ICQ does have very limited voice facilities. You can record an send 15 seconds as a wav file to a user who is on line. It might not be a lot but I have used it. once to explain to somebody how to pronounce Llandudno, the town I live in and on seveal occasions to identify the name of a tune or to compare versions of a tune - a recent example of this was I was Little Musgrave cropped up in a conversation and we wanted to find out if we were using the same tune.

Jon