IChat AV can't audio chat with Google Talk

I'm using iChat AV 3, and I have enabled my Google Jabber account. My friend is on a PC, and has Google talk. We can IM, but we both can't start a voice chat.
Is there anything we must do to enable voice chats? We both can talk on skype fine, and we both have headsets that work, just iChat/google talk won't let us communicate.
Anyone have a solution? This is only till a universal binary of Skype comes out...
Thanks,
Bryan

Hi Furi0us.Bee,
This page still says it is not possible
http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
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