Voice communication
by Pat Wilson · in Technical Issues · 03/17/2001 (12:11 pm) · 2 replies
I'm exploring options for voice communication in my project. HawkVoice was suggested, however it it in a non-functioning alpha state. DirectPlay Voice is made by Microsoft, so it's out. I'm thinking about RogerWilco, and it would work except for one shortcomming, I really need to be able to play wave files over the link. Any ideas on how I can work around this?
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06/17/2001 (8:41 am)
would it be possible to use the technology of audio conferencing? there are several progs free at cnet and zdnet and i cant help but think that this is the way to go. why use a cb radio when you can have a conference call with all team members on the same channel? then you just add some code that recognizes when players can or cannot hear each other, plus a modulator for distinct voice effects, and voila! This might be for too much for a 56k but my game is designed for high bandwidth anyway. and im talking technical issues here, never mind the licensing aspect. does this sound feasible? 
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DirectPlay's voice support is good too but you have to use their networking code. Why oh, why wasn't the voice compression/playback part of DirectSound?
Miles Sound System has great voice codecs but the license is not cheap for an independent.
There is also the Ogg Vorbis codecs. I have been watching these guys for a while now but have not had the opportunity to check out their stuff. Basically and MP3 replacement.