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Best Voice Chat Software For Gaming?

Posted by simoniker on from the lima-foxtrot-lollipop dept.

a-freeman writes "I frequently play Everquest and Quake III with some close friends that (now) live far away, and we've been looking for a solid voice-chat package to encourage trash-talking and taunting during our raid/frag sessions. We have variously tried Roger Wilco, TeamSound, TeamTalk, and Microsoft's Sidewinder GameVoice, and all of them have various limitations. TeamTalk has the best latency and sound quality but poor compatibility, TeamSound has terrible latency and requires lots of firewall holes, GameVoice requires a .net passport and Windows Messenger, and Roger Wilco is horribly unstable. This is a fairly simple problem, and I refuse to believe that these are the best-of-breed solutions. Can anyone recommend a solution that they are pleased with?"

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  1. Teamspeak by errorlevel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know that quite a few of my friends that play America's Army: Online use a program called TeamSpeak from http://www.teamspeak.org . I can't vouch for its stability, but I haven't heard any complains from them.

    For those that care, there is even a Linux client and server.

    Jared Lash

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    1. Re:Teamspeak by wossName · · Score: 4, Informative

      The Linux server for TS2 is rock-solid. It's running on my box 24/7 and I only have to shut it down to update.

      The installation might intimidate some people, because this thing is built to scale. You have a superadmin who can set up several servers, all with their own admins, channel ops and whatnot, but you can configure all of that through the web interface, or the client.

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  2. TeamSpeak by thefatz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Teamspeak supports Windows & Linux. It now uses the speex codec.

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