[Opensim-users] Recommended Approach for Voice for Opensim

[Ai Austin]

At 11:00 29/07/2010, Toni Alatalo wrote:
>It might be quite easy to write a slvoice replacement that talks Mumble,
>to be used with the Linden based viewers (like Hippo and Imprudence and
>friends), as slvoice is a separate little app that the viewer talks
>with. We haven't done that 'cause are not using slviewer for other
>reasons, but is I think option for people who need the slviewer
>featureset otherwise. Perhaps something from the Naali mumble client
>module code could be reused for that, or at least directly the mumblelib
>that we use too.
>
>I find it's also nice that people with the normal mumble client can join
>in without needing a full viewer. Though I guess that [will] work with
>freeswitch too if that's some SIP thing, dunno.

Yes, I believe Freeswitch is standard SIP along with H.323 call 
initiation perhaps.  I can say that when we opened our network 
boundary firewall for Freeswitch use externally it was all standard 
ports of this type.  So I would imagine any suitable VoIP server 
would be able to be used in Opensim with appropriate module in the 
server side, without any client change at all.

I can confirm from our own tests that Freeswitch works fine with out 
of the box SL Viewers (1.23.5 and 2.1) and with lightweight non-3D 
client that supports voice such as the Radegast Metaverse Client.