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Third party voice chat clients allow players to communicate in real time using a microphone and headphones. By using this kind of technology, it can free up a user's hands to continue the battle. There are many software applications that support voice chat. | |||
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==Skype== | ==Skype== | ||
[http://www.skype.com/ Skype] may only be used by users with a larger bandwith due to [http://www.skype.com/ Skype] calls having a rather high quality. | [http://www.skype.com/ Skype] may only be used by users with a larger bandwith due to [http://www.skype.com/ Skype] calls having a rather high quality. | ||
==Mumble== | |||
Free and open source, http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ | |||
Revision as of 23:27, 9 February 2013
Overview
Third party voice chat clients allow players to communicate in real time using a microphone and headphones. By using this kind of technology, it can free up a user's hands to continue the battle. There are many software applications that support voice chat.
Vendors
XFire
XFire is a Windows only chat client. The software is targeted at games. It provides in-game Instant Messaging to other XFire users. It also has voice chat capabilities. Recent versions of BZFlag 2.0.9 have some support for XFire, namely the in-game IM.
TeamSpeak
Ventrilo
Skype
Skype may only be used by users with a larger bandwith due to Skype calls having a rather high quality.
Mumble
Free and open source, http://mumble.sourceforge.net/