[sldev] [ARCH] idea - group voice

[Frans]

Yup that is a great idea. Use the SL windows or mac client and you will see
it is almost exactly implemented as you described. :)

On 10/17/07, inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have an idea.  I don't know if it's an original idea..
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> I think it would be neat if SecondLife had voice.  And not just between
> two people.  You should be able to hear what everyone is saying around you
> at once, but each voice should have a volume that's attenuated according to
> a function of distance, whatever that function in real life is.  And you
> should be able to speak and hear at the same time.  It would be like being
> in a mall or something, so the noise around you wouldn't prevent you from
> having a conversation with someone right next to you.
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> The only drawback, I guess, is that it might make it a little hard for
> people who can't or won't use sound and/or a mic to to participate.
> Although text would still be functional, of course.
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> The server should combine the voices for each client and send a single
> audio stream, rather than sending each individual voice the client hears
> separately.
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> A low-khz stream with voice compression could be used for a client's
> upstream, and perhaps for the downstream too.  I say "perhaps" because
> low-khz or voice compression might make the sum of peripheral voices sound
> bad.
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