Filed under: Utilities, Google, Social Software, Beta

Google Speak Labs edition is a new desktop version of Google Talk that borrows some features from the on the web Google Talk Gadget, including the addition of Group Chat, emoticons and more.

Google Talk Labs edition also adds new desktop notifications from Google Calendar, Orkut, and Gmail.

Unfortunately, it skimps on a few of the desktop features, and seems more like an intermediate step toward a full-featured desktop Chat application rather than its fulfillment. The most notable missing features are voice calling and file transfers. If you need those, you’re better off with the original Google Talk client.

We hope that, in the near future, Google can round up all of its Chat features into one application. Until then, you’ll have to pick and choose which features are important to you, and download or use the appropriate Google Speak service.

[via Daily Apps]

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