Mumble. Vent/Teamspeak without the fees.
Scythe
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
<div class="IPBDescription">Open source too.</div><a href="http://mumble.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">Sourceforge page.</a>
This was linked on slashdot recently and I gave it a try. I'm accustomed to using vent and I find this much much better. There are many servers that you can just jump on and use, no server fees. A friend of mine and I joined a Japanese server the other day, each of us had a 350 ping to the server, and it worked flawlessly. There's a good wizard for configuring auto-trigger levels and some nifty feedback-cancellation stuff that lets you use speakers and a mic without the godawful whine. Vent had a strange bug/hardware incompatibility by which it detected the volume level from my microphone to be NAN. Made level triggering difficult.
Voice quality is good, no complaints there. It's got an ingame overlay enabled by default that could conceivably cause problems with some games. You can turn it off by checking the "Expert settings" box in the menu and clicking on the game overlay option box. It doesn't cause problems for TF2, but I've got the window open on my other monitor. I can see how it would be useful if you didn't know who was talking and had only one monitor.
Memory footprint isn't exactly light, 21 meg at the moment, but otherwise it's resource-friendly.
Oh, and there's pre-compiled clients for OSX and Linux available.
It gets the Scythe Tick of Approval â„¢.
--Scythe--
P.S. First thing to do when you install it: Disable that damn text-to-speech thing, under the audio menu.
This was linked on slashdot recently and I gave it a try. I'm accustomed to using vent and I find this much much better. There are many servers that you can just jump on and use, no server fees. A friend of mine and I joined a Japanese server the other day, each of us had a 350 ping to the server, and it worked flawlessly. There's a good wizard for configuring auto-trigger levels and some nifty feedback-cancellation stuff that lets you use speakers and a mic without the godawful whine. Vent had a strange bug/hardware incompatibility by which it detected the volume level from my microphone to be NAN. Made level triggering difficult.
Voice quality is good, no complaints there. It's got an ingame overlay enabled by default that could conceivably cause problems with some games. You can turn it off by checking the "Expert settings" box in the menu and clicking on the game overlay option box. It doesn't cause problems for TF2, but I've got the window open on my other monitor. I can see how it would be useful if you didn't know who was talking and had only one monitor.
Memory footprint isn't exactly light, 21 meg at the moment, but otherwise it's resource-friendly.
Oh, and there's pre-compiled clients for OSX and Linux available.
It gets the Scythe Tick of Approval â„¢.
--Scythe--
P.S. First thing to do when you install it: Disable that damn text-to-speech thing, under the audio menu.
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In any case, we were planning to take it in use on ENSL/NSFI because now we have seperate vents (Adz and NSFi), but then the program kept crash on each of us so we decided to discard it. We tried different versions too.
--Scythe--
<a href="http://www.speex.org/" target="_blank">http://www.speex.org/</a>
Hope it answers your question, it was under "Tools used by Mumble".