[Opensim-dev] Mumble & Voice

[Rob Smart]

Hi Robert,

There are two working voice modules for OpenSim at the moment. FreeSwitch
and Vivox. Freeswitch has lower voice quality than Vivox and no spatial
sound however it has the advantage of being free. Vivox is a lot higher
quality but it is down to anyone running the Vivox module to speak to Vivox
and negotiate use of their voice servers.

Mumble/Murmur looks great (Murmur is the server component) but they use the
speex codec which is not supported by SLVoice (the SL clients inbuilt VOIP
client) so use of it without modifying the client is unfortunately not
possible.

Rob.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Robert A. Knop Jr. <rknop at pobox.com> wrote:

> I don't know if anybody is aware of this, but there's a fully open
> source (BSDish) VOIP server/client named Mumble --
> http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ .  I don't know if they have a
> library/API that could be used for integrating the server into other
> things.  However, this might be something that could be integrated into
> OpenSim as built-in Voice.  (It would require changes to the client as
> well, of course.)
>
> I know that some folks use Skype or phone voice bridges to use Voice
> while in OpenSim, but I've found that not having the visual feedback on
> who's talking (voice gestures or the green lines over your head) really
> breaks the immersion.  It'd be great to have some sort of built-in Voice
> solution (even better if it was spatial, but even just "global" with
> visual feedback would get us most of the way there).
>
> Is anybody working on integrating Voice into OpenSim right now?  I know
> that there's something going on with FreeSwitch.  Who's the expert on
> Voice in OpenSim?
>
> --
> --Rob Knop
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