Is there a voice program?
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2short2care,
Posted on: 2011-08-24 14:39 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Many gamers are moving to Mumble for their voice chat needs: http://www.mumble.com/
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Originally Posted by 2short2care
Sorry about the title I don't know what you would call something like Skype or Vent. Is there something like that, that is free, NO I am not talking a free trial I am talking free as in free forever. Thanks to all who help me with this.
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Thanks, but no you got to pay for it. I am looking for FREE but thanks anyway.
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Originally Posted by je_saist
Many gamers are moving to Mumble for their voice chat needs: http://www.mumble.com/
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Um... no you don't. |
Originally Posted by 2short2care
Thanks, but no you got to pay for it. I am looking for FREE but thanks anyway.
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Mumble is a BSD licensed software project: http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ / http://sourceforge.net/projects/mumble/
You can't get much more free than that.
Hmm. I think I see your problem. You just looked at the Mumble.com website and thought the hosting solution there meant that there was all there was.
Instructions for running your own completely no financial charge mumble server can be found here:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Running_Murmur / http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Murmurguide
It should also be noted that the only time you really need to "pay" to use Teamspeak or Ventrillo is, like Mumble, if you require server hosting. If you have the bandwidth and processing power to run a small server yourself, you can do that for free.
As far as finding a free server, you probably won't have much luck. There's no upside to a company giving you free badwidth and processor time on their servers unless it is some sort of Value Added server to some other hosting arrangement. In this case, they aren't really giving you the service for free, they are simply including in the cost of your hosting, whether you actually use it or not.
- Garielle
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Originally Posted by Frosty_Femme
I said "ur" which is not a word. It's a sound dumb people make when you ask them to spell out "you are".
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The question that should be asked is:
Do you need to host a server?
If the answer is no, then Teamspeak, Mumble or Ventrilo will fit the bill for you.
If the answer is yes, you can still use those options, provided that you can host yourself.
If the answer is yes, and you don't know the first thing about hosting a server, then yes, you'll need to pay. The great thing is that there are Ventrilo hosting solutions out there that are pretty affordable (ranging anywhere from $2.00/month up to hundreds of dollars per month, depending on the size of server you need.)
I've used Darkstar Communications for work purposes in the past, however I hear alot of people like Typefrag.
As far as "Free" goes...well Skype is about as free as you can get, and they do all of their own hosting. You're just limited with how many can chat at once *and* you have to put up with random invites from phishers.
There's plenty of other solutions out there (just google "Free VOIP Comms" or "Free VOIP solutions") however I can't speak to their fidelity or legitimacy.
Best of luck!
Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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Just kind of point of contention here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/...-buys-skype-2/|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
As far as "Free" goes...well Skype is about as free as you can get, and they do all of their own hosting. You're just limited with how many can chat at once *and* you have to put up with random invites from phishers.
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Those familiar with Microsoft's history of buying software companies are pretty much aware that the purchase means that it's not a question of whether or not Skype will crash and burn, but a question of how long till the product crashes and burns. Granted the buyout itself has investors openly questioning Steve Ballmer's direction of the company.
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There's plenty of other solutions out there (just google "Free VOIP Comms" or "Free VOIP solutions") however I can't speak to their fidelity or legitimacy. Best of luck! |
Ventrillo, while a popular solution, still lacks a Linux client: http://www.ventrilo.com/download.php
Skype, while the best casually known VOIP solution, uses a closed-source base and the protocol is proprietary. The purchase by Microsoft means this state isn't likely to change in the future, as well as the invetiable middle-finger to Apple OSX and Linux users.
Teamspeak and Mumble are truely multiplatform:
http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads
http://www.mumble.com/mumble-download.php
From that point it really comes down to network latency, processing power consumption, and general audio quality. There are loads of comparisons pitting Teamspeak and Mumble against each other: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&b...mspeak&spell=1
For the most part Mumble wins on all fronts, supplying better audio quality with lower processing power consumption with less network traffic. This is why more and more hardcore gamers, the type who go to QuakeCon and ask when the Rage Linux Client is going to be released (answer, probably not 0-day, but soon-after), are using Mumble over Teamspeak.
Now, from my own experience, it's really 6 of 1 / half a dozen of the other.
Yes, Mumble does provide a better audio quality with less processing power and less network traffic than Teamspeak. I'm not convinced that difference is pronounced enough for an average user to be able to tell the difference. You really wouldn't want to be running your favorite game and your voice server on the same computer to begin with... and to be fair... both the Teamspeak and Mumble servers run fairly well on older hardware / software configurations, such as an AthlonXp 1800 with 512megs of ram running a Debian install.
That being said, if you have a capped upsteam bandwidth... say... something like 128k upstream, yes, Mumble will more than likely be able to better handle a few peopled connecting and chatting through your server.
Once you start to get around 256k upstream or better, most users won't likely see a network bit-width constraint difference between Mumble or Teamspeak. At that point the largest network constraint will be latency, or how long it actually takes for your own server connection to respond to somebody elses server connection.
Oh wow I haven't been looked here in a while, thank you for all the help. I will definetly look into some of these. If I can get something going hopefully my small group of people will be interested too, (there is about 8 of us) Thanks again.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
That is good info.
Hmm... I have a server... I wonder...
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
Mumble is pretty good. I still mostly use vent though.
well to give you all an update I downloaded skype and so far so good, thanks again for all the help.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
Sorry about the title I don't know what you would call something like Skype or Vent. Is there something like that, that is free, NO I am not talking a free trial I am talking free as in free forever. Thanks to all who help me with this.
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!