Some Issues With Voice Comm
nicuss
Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8749Members
Join Date: 2002-11-15 Member: 8749Members
<div class="IPBDescription">they say i'm hard to understand</div> Other people tell me I'm hard to understand when using voice comm and I'm trying to find what the problem is. Having two computers I've installed NS on both and made a LAN game, I can hear and understand myself well (not crystal clear but good enough) from one PC to the other. However, on the internet people still don't get what I'm saying.
My connection is a Verizon DSL with 128kbs upload / 756 kbs download. Those are bits/second, so in bytes it does about 13 KB/sec upload and 80 KB/sec download. Do you think my slow upload could be the problem? If not what else?
I've already read through some voice comm FAQs and played with all the variables. Ran the HL voice setup too.
The PC is a 1.4GHZ Athlon with some 900MB PC133 SDRAM.
My connection is a Verizon DSL with 128kbs upload / 756 kbs download. Those are bits/second, so in bytes it does about 13 KB/sec upload and 80 KB/sec download. Do you think my slow upload could be the problem? If not what else?
I've already read through some voice comm FAQs and played with all the variables. Ran the HL voice setup too.
The PC is a 1.4GHZ Athlon with some 900MB PC133 SDRAM.
Comments
Think of it like this:
When someone types carlesly liek tis, the reader has to put in extra effort to understand it. This balances out the lack of effort the typer put into saying it, but it also leaves plenty of room for misunderstandings. Same kinda deal works for speech.
i can hear other people fine no matter how long they talk, etc. and there's that internet telephone where people can talk for hours, right?
i'm not really sure if going through the trouble of upgrading my upload speed (or switching to cable) is worth it, that is if it's gonna make a difference or not... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
sound card is a creative soundblaster 16PCI or sumthing like that
"ee gobba go habba <i>hive</i> un, un evehbada bidda *microphone abruptly cuts off* ambers!"
Also, maybe it's just my immagination, but everybody's voice is really annoying. Except you occasionally get someone with a mild australian accent, and they sound hella cool, or some guy who sounds like a sterotypical california suerfer dude from the late 80's, and he sounds tolerable. Everyone else just sounds like someone else's nerdy kid brother breathing anxiously into a phone.
And don't even get me started on the people who use <a href='http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2002-11-18' target='_blank'>those damn voice masks.</a>
And to top it all off, they go "eed ealth! eed ealth! eed ealth!" While you're trying to build up your base. It's bad enough that they felt they had to wander off on their own, but the <i>least</i> they could do is use the damn comms menu so I can <i>jump to them.</i>
your net speed shouldn't make too much of a difference. i'm only on a 56k dialup connection, and my old mic worked fine. My new headsets not working loud enough though.