Mumble - Free Group Voice Chat for Online Gaming Mumble is a VoIP based chat tool group online group communication, but designed mainly for online gaming. There is no service behind Mumble, it is only a software tool offered for free, unlike some other online gaming VoIP apps. What makes it different is that it is open source, runs on nearly all modern operating systems and is very light and easy to use. Mumble is a good gaming chat tool that is comparable to TeamSpeak and Ventrilo, and even better than them to certain tastes. Mumble excels in voice quality. That’s because it has some technical things working inside that others do not have. Firstly, there is an echo cancellation mechanism in the system. It also has low latency, which makes things better for your ears, your connection and your computer memory. It contains some high end codecs like Speex, which contributes a lot to its superior sound quality. Speex also takes care of echo cancellation. Although Mumble has a very basic interface that is not impressive, it does have a good set of interesting features. You can, for instance, use the in-game overlay that shows you who in the game is talking, and positional audio, that lets you sense the voice being directed from the character in the game’s virtual environment. You can also change the sound settings to fit your bandwidth and other parameters. See http://ift.tt/29RxVX5
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