When you are in an online gaming battle field, you always need to be cautious and quick. Also steady communication is needed for making strategies against your opponents. Chats may be an option for communication but they are old fashioned and they kind of diverge your mind away from the game. So, with chats there is a risk of getting killed in the battle field while you are trying to make strategy to kill your opponent. Voice chats are the alternatives that you got to eliminate the challenges of typing information while trying to maneuver through an online game. There are many voice chat programs that are available in the market but the most popular ones are TeamSpeak and Ventrilo both of which are VoIP programs that allow users to connect to a central server and talk with other much like a conference call. Few features of these programs are listed as follows:
TeamSpeak
· Optimal bandwidth usage with codecs ranging from CELP 5.1Kbit to GSM 16.4Kbit to Speex 25.9Kbit for optimal voice clarity
· Local addressbook allows you to connect quickly to your favorite servers
· Webserver list allows you to find TeamSpeak servers without their IP
· Channel and subchannel creation
· Client is designed to work well with firewalls and routers
· Completely configurable keybindings (hotkeys) to quickly join specified channels, mute your microphone, etc.
· Whisper functions so you can speak privately to inidividuals, groups of persons, or other channels
· Auto voice normalizing (no need to adjust your mic manually)
· Supports Microsoft Gamevoice ™
· Windows/Linux server and client
· Text messaging in the client
· Seemless optoinal MySQL integration, allowing you to customize your server database
· Minimal CPU and RAM requirements
· Given bandwidth requirements are met, servers can easily handle thousands of users
Ventrilo
·
Cross channel communications.
· User-to-user private conversations.
· Individual channels that can be created dynamically.
· Sub channels.
· Muted channels.
· Queued channels.
· Advanced channel control options and filters.
· Text-to-speech (TTS) voice generation.
· Key binding to execute special program functions, play wave files, send TTS messages.
· Separate phonetic spelling of user and channel names for proper TTS.
· Built in chat similar to IRC.
· Users can enter dynamic comments for all other users to see.
· User assigned names for server connections. No need to remember IP numbers.
· Multiple platform support for servers.
· Servers are now ready and supported on 64bit platforms.
· Ability to restrict server admin features. Useful for hosting services.
· Server specified codec’s to control voice quality and bandwidth usage.
There are many companies who brag about them providing the topmost quality of Ventrilo Server hosting and TeamSpeak Server hosting but it’s always a daunting task as there are thousands of options to choose from. And still there is a big confusion regarding which one to choose from among TeamSpeak, Ventrilo and other applications (Mumble, Roger Wilco, etc). I personally am using Ventrilo servers host from VoIPServers.net just because I’ve been using it for a long time and I haven’t had any problems with it. Still, I suggest my readers to do a sufficient research before making a final decision.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
And still Skype rocks the most