Low-latency, high-quality voice communication for gamers. Includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from y... More
Voice chats have emerged as integral parts of many online games in recent years--part of the social gaming trend--and VoIP solutions such as Teamspeak have been created in response. Mumble is an open source project that has gained an audience in this arena for the low-latency game chatting it facilitates. It offers noise suppression, gain control, and support for multiple audio standards. It's client-server focused, and does need its own dedicated server. We checked in with Thorvald Natvig, lead developer of Mumble, on open source and where Mumble is going.