Decibel is a realtime communications framework, integrating services like CTI (Computer Telephone Integration), VoIP (Voice over IP), text based chat and instant messaging. Desktop users find in Decibel one central place to manage all their realtime communication settings and can easily configure and change responses to communication requests. By providing a simple, DBus-based API to the services like communication accountmanagement, connection to contacts, etc. Decibel reduces the complexity and effort of accessing realtime communication technologies in applications. This allows for integration of realtime communication technologies into applications that are not focused on communication. WWW: http://decibel.kde.org