An apparatus comprising: means for receiving a request for communicating live video data between a device and one or more other devices, wherein the video data comprises audio information; means for determining capability information, resource availability information, or a combination thereof of the device, the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof; means for processing the capability information, the resource availability information, or a combination thereof to determine one or more first available multimodal modes, corresponding to one or more multimodal modes in the group comprising: a key frame mode; an audio mode; a hybrid mode of key frames and audio; a speech-to-text mode; a key video segment mode; an avatar mode wherein in the avatar mode captured people or objects are transformed to a cartoon profile, and to extract multimodal information associated with the one or more first available multimodal modes from the live video data; means for causing, at least in part, an exchange of the multimodal information in place of at least a portion of the live video data associated with the multimodal information in response to the request, in a communication session; and means for determining one or more second available multimodal modes corresponding to one or more multimodal modes in the group, different from at least one of the one or more first available multimodal modes, and for extraction and exchange of second multimodal information associated with the one or more second available multimodal modes, in dependence on changed capability information, resource availability information, or a combination thereof of the device, the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof, during the communication session. means for receiving a request for communicating live video data between a device and one or more other devices, wherein the video data comprises audio information; means for determining capability information, resource availability information, or a combination thereof of the device, the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof; means for processing the capability information, the resource availability information, or a combination thereof to determine one or more first available multimodal modes, corresponding to one or more multimodal modes in the group comprising: a key frame mode; an audio mode; a hybrid mode of key frames and audio; a speech-to-text mode; a key video segment mode; an avatar mode wherein in the avatar mode captured people or objects are transformed to a cartoon profile, and to extract multimodal information associated with the one or more first available multimodal modes from the live video data; means for causing, at least in part, an exchange of the multimodal information in place of at least a portion of the live video data associated with the multimodal information in response to the request, in a communication session; and means for determining one or more second available multimodal modes corresponding to one or more multimodal modes in the group, different from at least one of the one or more first available multimodal modes, and for extraction and exchange of second multimodal information associated with the one or more second available multimodal modes, in dependence on changed capability information, resource availability information, or a combination thereof of the device, the one or more other devices, or a combination thereof, during the communication session.