Olá,

O TeamSpeak é um programa que oferece comunicação de voz entre os seus usuários. A sua plataforma possui uma estrutura de cliente/servidor semelhante ao IRC, ou seja, o servidor e o cliente são claramente separados. A seguir, explicarei através de um guia passo-a-passo como utilizar o programa.

Sobre

O TS é capaz de suportar várias conexões simultâneas, por isso, é utilizado para realizar teleconferências, reuniões, ou simplesmente, para proporcionar um ambiente de entretenimento para amigos. Por poder ser utilizado simultaneamente com outros programas e ser bastante leve, o TeamSpeak também é bastante utilizado por fãs de jogos on-line.

Ambiente

O ambiente do TeamSpeak é parecido com o do IRC. Basicamente, o usuário conecta em um servidor, entra em um canal e interage com os usuários desse canal. Como o TeamSpeak é essencialmente um bate-papo de voz, a presença de um usuário em vários canais causaria caos, contudo, é possível trocar de canal quando quiser e enviar mensagens de texto para qualquer usuário do servidor.

Como foi dito anteriormente, o TeamSpeak pode ser utilizado simultaneamente com outros programas. Em outras palavras, não é necessário que ele fique na janela ativa para que seja possível interagir com os outros usuários, possibilitando a conversação no MSN, navegar por qualquer site na Internet, e/ou fazer outras atividades, como ler/escrever um email.

Instalando o TeamSpeak passo-a-passo

1. Primeiramente, é necessário baixar o cliente do TeamSpeak. Para fazer isso, acesse o sítio oficial do programa clicando aqui. Ao clicar, este sítio será aberto:

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 1

2. Após abrir, escolha um dos links para baixar: site 1 ou o site 2. Ambos vão redirecioná-lo para o mesmo lugar. Depois de escolher um dos dois, aparecerá esse sítio:

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 2

3. Esses são os termos de uso do TeamSpeak. Para concordar, arraste a barra de rolagem até o final e escolha a opção “I AGREE” (Eu concordo). Depois de selecionar o lugar onde o arquivo (instalador) ficará salvo no seu computador e de terminado o download, execute o arquivo “ts2_client_rc2_2032″.

4. Após abrir o instalador, aparecerá a seguinte mensagem: “This will install TeamSpeak 2 RC2. Do you wish continue?” (Isso vai instalar o TeamSpeak 2 RC2. Você deseja continuar?) Após clicar em “Sim”, aparecerá uma janela de instalação. Clique em Next (Próximo) para continuar. Feito isso, o acordo de licença vai aparecer. Marque a opção “I accept the agreement” (Eu aceito o acordo) e clique em “Next” (Próximo).

5. A seguir, você escolherá o local onde ficará salvo o programa no seu computador, por padrão ele fica salvo em: C:\Arquivos de programas\Teamspeak2_RC2
Porém, você pode mudar e colocar no local que lhe for conveniente.

6. Depois de escolher o local onde ficará o programa, você poderá escolher se quer ou não um atalho no “Start Menu” (Menu Iniciar). Senão quiser, escolha a opção “Don’t create a start menu folder” (Não criar atalho no Menu Iniciar.)

7. Em seguida, você poderá optar se quer um atalho na área de trabalho, caso queira, marque a opção “Create a desktop icon” (Criar um ícone na área de trabalho). Agora, você poderá visualizar todas as opções definidas: local onde ficará o programa, nome do atalho no Menu Iniciar se assim você o fez e se você quis ou não um atalho na área de trabalho.

8. Para finalizar, clique em Install e após terminar, instale também os codecs que o TeamSpeak pedir.

Usando o TeamSpeak passo-a-passo

1. Para começar, abra o TeamSpeak. Isso é o que deve aparecer:

TeamSpek Guia Imagem 3

2. O próximo passo é escolher a opção “Connection” e em seguida “Connect”. Aparecerá essa janela:

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 4

3. Agora, clique com o botão direito do mouse no espaço branco delimitado pela janela de título “Connect To Server”. Ao clicar, escolha a opção “Add Server”. Depois de escolher, você poderá nomear o servidor. Escolha um nome, por exemplo: Canal Direito. Ficará assim:

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 5

4. No campo “Server Address”, preencha com canaldireito.cjb.net e no campo “Nickname” coloque o seu apelido. Depois disso, clique em “Connect”. Se você conectou corretamente, aparecerá assim:

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 6

Ao conectar, você sempre irá, automaticamente, para o canal “Seja bem vindo =)”. Você só poderá interagir, ou seja, falar e escutar, as pessoas que estiverem nesse canal. Para mudar de canal, basta dar dois cliques no canal desejado.

A configuração padrão do microfone no TeamSpeak é a Ativação de Voz, ou seja, o microfone vai captar todos os sons em uma determinada tonalidade. Você pode configurar essa tonalidade, ou fazer com que o microfone só capture os sons quando você segurar uma determinada tecla. Esse modo, é o “Push to Talk”, que funciona como um Walkie Talkie.

Configurando as opções de captura de voz

TeamSpeak Guia Imagem 7

Retângulo verde
Aqui você configura o volume da voz dos outros usuários.

Retângulo vermelho
Aqui você escolhe o modo de captura do som. Escolhendo o modo “Voice Activation”, o microfone fica sempre ativado, captando todos os sons dependendo da tonalidade que você mesmo configura. Escolhendo o modo ”Push to Talk”, o microfone só vai capturar o som quando você segurar uma tecla determinada.

Retângulo azul
Aqui você configura a tecla de ativação do microfone, caso tenha escolhido o modo “Push to Talk”.

Considerações finais

Vale ressaltar que os endereços mostrados nas imagens (canaldireito.cjb.net) foram usados somente para o guia e não são servidores válidos. Para encontrar servidores de TS, basta fazer uma busca simples no Google (Servidores de TS) ou abrir o seu próprio e hospedá-lo no seu computador. Qualquer dúvida gerada após a leitura desse guia pode ser tirada aqui mesmo, basta fazer um comentário com sua dúvida. Será um prazer respondê-lo(a).

Teamspeak 3: Open Beta Start am 19. Dezember 2009

Am 19. Dezember startet die Open Beta der dritten Version des Teamspeak-Clients. Die Erwartungen sind hoch und werden hoffentlich auch erfüllt. Bis zum Start der Beta müssen die Entwickler aber noch ein bisschen an ihrer Version rumbasteln.

Um diese Uhrzeit wird am 19. Dezember 2009 die Open Beta auf die Interessenten losgelassen:

• 13:37 CET (Central European Time)
• 07:37 EST (Eastern Standard Time)

Und Teamspeak 3 wird auf diesen Systemen funktionieren:

• Windows (32bit and 64bit)
• Mac OS X (Intel and PPC)
• Linux (32bit and 64bit)

mit freundlichen Grüßen, Euer eSports-Blog Team!

Tooltime

When moving around the civ multiplayer community one soon stumbles upon certain handy tools used by people on different occasions. Some are useful any time playing civ, others only serve a purpose in specific situations. Three of those programs that come in handy for every league player at one time or another are supposed to find a closer description here. Most of their functions are self-explanatory, it´s more a questions of knowing about their existence.

Teamspeak (TS)
Download Link: Download Teamspeak here.

Teamspeak is a voice-over-ip communication program, which allows you to talk and listen to multiple people at once. Many clans have their resident teamspeak server, using it for normal league play in order to share some strategical thoughts or just have some fun together. Often many people playing in a random shuffle teamer gather on one of those servers. TS shines most during clan games, where it allows for precise coordination and extensive in advance planning – it is a precondition of reaching a higher skill level as a team to use a voice communication program, most civ players choose teamspeak here.

TS Server from various mp civ clans:
French + SD2R + XXX + PPP: 81.28.97.25:8767 / pw: coa

Civ4Fans (C4F)
Download Link: Download Civ4Fans here.

Civ4Fans allows you to access the civ lobby, also when not having civ itself started or while being in a game. To do so click on “chat/lobby – bts”. It´s often used for finding a substitute in league games in case one is needed. To do so leaving the game is not necessary, tasking to the already running c4f or just the desktop to launch c4f is enough and allows for a more comfortable and faster way of getting the game to continue within the league rules.

Another aspect of civ4fans is the possibility of chatting with other people, leaving them messages and generally providing a comfortable platform to interact with other members of the community or organize games.

Finally C4F provides a couple of useful options. For one it´s possible to set civ to automatically disable caching. A not emptied cache can be responsible for blocks between players during the joining of a game. To enable this option, click on “options – civ 4 bts configuration” and set “Disable Caching” to “1”.

Hamachi
Download Link: Download Hamachi here.

Hamachi is a software which simulates a local area network (lan) over the internet. This comes in handy in cases of severe connection problems between specific players or whenever Gamespy is having a bad day.

The buttons have no names – in order to join a network click on the middle one from the bottom three, the triangle one. Click on “join network” and enter the data you´ve been provided with. After having done that, you see the hamachi network IP´s – right click on the name of the host of the game you want to join and choose the option “copy address”. Within civ go to multiplayer-direct ip and paste it (ctrl +v) where demanded. If necessary enter the password.

I got my computer up and running…
Now the testing can continue!
I’ve gotten a TS server up and running, but now the daunting task of making a central backup location for a company awaits..
They wanted to do it as cheap as possible, so I chose to use Ubuntu server for the task.
This will give me freedom to what I want, but then again it will cost me alot of hours with configs and setup..
The first step is to get NFS running so the storage can be expanded without any problems… Just ad another node and it’s expanded!
After that, the VPN awaits and then finally the Samba config or SSHFS (not yet decided).

The TS server I just put up for kicks to see how hard it was to get it going..
And a advice, never let SSH be on the standard port 22!
Move it out of range.

Teamspeak für mac

TeamSpeex der Teamspeak für Mac

http://www.savvy.nl/blog/

http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads

Credit : (Writer) OatVR

             (Webiste) www.vr-pcgames.com

Teamspeak คือโปรแกรมที่จะทำให้ท่านและเพื่อนๆของท่าน สามารถติดต่อสื่อสารกันได้ฉับไวโดยใช้ไมโครโฟน เสียงพูดจะส่งถึงกันได้ทั้งในขณะเล่นเกมหรือขณะอยู่ในวินโดวส์ ดังนั้นมันจึงเป็นโปรแกรมอีกโปรแกรมหนึ่งที่นักเล่นเกมควรมีไว้ข้างกาย เพราะต้องยอมรับว่าการสื่อสารกันด้วยเสียง เพื่อวางแผน, สั่งบุก, สั่งถอย หรือขอความช่วยเหลือนั้น เด็ดกว่าการด้วยการพิมพ์ keyboard ใส่ช่อง Chat เป็นไหนๆ ถึงแม้ว่าปัจจุบันเกมต่างๆจะมีฟังก์ชั่น Voice Chat มาให้พร้อม แต่การควบคุมการปิดเปิดไมโครโฟน การตั้งระดับเสียง ความลื่นไหล และคมชัดของเสียงที่ได้จากระบบ Voice Chat ที่ติดมากับหลายๆเกมที่ว่านั้น ถือว่ายังทำได้ไม่แจ่มเท่า Teamspeak

ท่านใดที่เคยเข้าไปเยี่ยมชม Downloads Zone คงได้พบเห็นไฟล์ของโปรแกรมนี้ไว้ให้บริการในโซนดังกล่าวแล้ว แต่ในเว็บ VR ก็ยังไม่มีบทความสอนการใช้งานของมันเต็มๆซะที ผมจึงตัดสินใจทำบทความพิเศษนี้ทิ้งไว้ โดยหวังว่ามันจะมีประโยชน์สำหรับท่านที่ยังไม่เคยใช้มันครับ บทความนี้ก็จะมาแนะนำิวิธีการใช้ Teamspeak ในการตั้ง Server ไว้เล่นกับเพื่อนเอง (จะได้ไม่ต้องไปรอ Join Server ใหญ่ๆ) และแนะนำการใช้ Teamspeak ในการ Join Server ที่เราหรือเพื่อนเราตั้งขึ้นไว้ พร้อมแนะนำวิธีการปรับแต่งค่าเท่าที่จำเป็น เชิญอ่านต่อด้านในครับ 

การใช้งานแบบละเอียด

http://www.vr-pcgames.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=684&Itemid=43

Scott Halligan, owner of the Scan New England Teamspeak server, has announced in a forum posting on his website that he may be terminating the server when its current subscription runs out around mid-november. Halligan sites a recent decline in listenership as well as the new service offered by streaming giant Radio Reference as the reason behind shuttering the server.

Teamspeak, a software designed originally for gamers to be able to communicate during online sessions, was quickly picked up and used by scanner hobbyists. The software, consisting of a server and a client, allows for a very light weight “bandwidth friendly” method of streaming audio to multiple listeners. The software also has the advantage of locating multiple feeds in one location, allowing listeners to easily jump between feeds.

The New England Teamspeak Server is hosted by a private company, and currently can handle up to 100 listeners. The server sports around 30 feeds from around the New England area.

More information can be found in this thread at the Scan New England site.

by v000nix

Gestern hat Deep Silver’s Community Manager “Pixel” aka Marcos Durate eine zweite Friday Night Challenge angekündigt, die an einem der vier Freitage im September stattfinden soll.

Als “Special Guests”  sind Pascal “gaLLo” Jäger von SK.Gaming und Stefan “Bombe” Köpper von n!faculty eingeladen.

Derzeit läuft noch eine Abstimmung im Deep Silver Forum, ob die ganze Aktion Stadion-Only stattfinden soll oder nicht.

Bom, resolvi reinstalar o meu rFactor, mods, plugins, tools, etc.

A medida que eu for incrementando a instalação vou atualizar este post.

Jogo

rFactor 1.255
rFactorSetup1255.exe 1.053.907 kb
http://downloads.rfactor.net/rF/rFactorSetup1255.exe

Liberando portas no roteador para criar servidor pela Internet:
34447 [TCP]
34397 [UDP]

Para corridas em LAN libere também:
34297 [UDP]

Estas dicas estão no manual do jogo: Appendix C: Firewall Guide

Comunicação

Skype 4.1.0.141
http://www.skype.com/

TeamSpeak 2.0.33.7 (Client)
TeamSpeak 2.0.24.1 (Server)
http://www.teamspeak.com/

Mods

Renault Super Clio 2006 MOD 1.0
SuperClioModV1[1].0.exe 48.003 kb
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Renault%20Super%20Clio

Pistas

Interlagos EOAA 1.01
2.687m
rFactor EOAA Public Interlagos V1.00.rar 22.915 kb
rFactor EOAA Public Interlagos patch V1.01.rar 2 kb
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Interlagos%20EOAA

Londrina 1.0
3.145m
Londrina_rfactor.rar 35.950 kb
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Londrina

Jacarepagua 1988 1.0
Jacarepagua88_C4.rar 26.384k
http://www.rfactorcentral.com/detail.cfm?ID=Jacarepagua%201988

Dopo una  lunga assenza il server Teamspeak torna a funzionare.

Perdonateci per la mancanza!

Il nostro server Teamspeak purtroppo è Offline.

Ci stiamo organizzando per rimetterlo in funzione, scusateci per il disservizio.

Tja, jetzt erlebe ich es schon zum zweiten Mal in meiner WOW-Karriere, dass sich meine Gilde auflöst. Schuld war wohl die zu große Anzahl an Gelegenheitsspielern, die ein Fortkommen in den Instanzen sehr schwer gemacht haben. Gerne erinnere ich mich an die netten Gespräche im TS, an die unzähligen Raid-Abende in Kara und den BC-Instanzen und generell die unaufgeregte Grundstimmung in der Gilde. Eigentlich habe ich mich bei ASHURA immer ganz wohl gefühlt.

Auf jeden Fall habe auch ich schweren Herzens die Konsequenz gezogen: /gquit

Screen Gildenaustritt

Ich habe mich dann entschlossen, den meisten Gilden-Kollegen zur Gilde “Spellbound” zu folgen. Ich bin mal gespannt, wie sich das da entwickeln wird (und ob ich endlich wieder regelmäßiger Zeit zum Spielen haben werde). Wenn die mich denn aufnehmen …

Nachtrag: Sie haben mich genommen Im Internet findet man seit wenigen Tagen jetzt auch die Homepage.

by rapidoraton

Hallo Fans,

Also mit meiner Osterüberraschung Surprise, Surprise lag ich ich ja nun voll daneben wie mir scheint.

Habe den Server seit Veröffentlichung des Artikels jeden Tag
um ungefähr 6°°h morgens immer händisch wieder neu gestartet damit er auch online ist.
Der Teamspeakserver funktioniert über DYN-DNS hervorragend.

Gääähhhn, heul, müde, dann zur Arbeit.

Häh, wie Tausende von Euch auch. Kaffeeschlürf und los.

Nach der Arbeit zuhause angekommen, erster Weg,

wer war da, hat sich was getan?

Nööö,

Ist jemand online und daddelt, nööö.

Na gut, dann ess ich erst mal was.

Nun, das kommt davon,
wenn man sich selbst überschätzt.

Weil man sich nach über zwanzig Kommentaren von Euch so freut, wie in der letzten Kolumne von mir und hochmotiviert ist.

Selber Schuld, kein Mitleid.

Es war eine spannende letzte Woche für mich, in der ich einiges dazu- und kennengelernt habe und auch meinen Spaß hatte.

Folgender Screenshot wird nicht nur Alrakis und v000nix amüsieren,
wenn man bedenkt, das eine hier vorgestellte Strecke, in einem Artikel
von v000nix, auf dem Server landet, den ich mit Hilfe der communities erstellt habe, der zum Zweck dienen soll Teamspeak2 auszuprobieren.

Da hat mich alrakis darauf aufmerksam gemacht das wir die selbe Zeit gefahren sind und auch noch einen screenshot davon gemacht und Ihn mir dann auf mein bitten geschickt.

Guckst Du hier:

Screenshot von alrakis:

Tut mir Leid, aber genau deshalb ist Trackmania einfach super.

Aber dann:

daddel so vor mich hin, Kopfhörer auf:

Hallo

Mann, bin ich erschrocken.

AHHHH, wo ist der Einschaltknopf fürs Mikro?

Halloo

Das Hallo kam in der Aufregung mit Sicherheit zu laut.

Nun gut,

also während der Unterhaltung kam heraus, das mein Gesprächspartner,
mich über den Artikel hier kontaktierte.

Den Nickame sage ich natürlich nicht weil ich nicht weiß ob es Ihm recht wäre.
Wir haben dann ungefähr 4 Stunden gespielt, uns unterhalten, tracks und maps von anderen Spielen über xfire ausgetauscht usw. es war richtig klasse und interessant
wenigstens für mich.

Er hat mir dann über das Programm Teamviewer, per remote meinen teamspeak optimiert.

Und jetzt:

Habe einen neuen “Freund” über Teamspeak und Trackmania gewonnen.

Schon dieser eine Kontakt belohnte mich dafür , sich die Osterfeiertage mit
Teamspeak und Trackmania zu befassen und das so durchzuziehen.

Nun, am Sonntag besuchten mich v000nix und tmjonas auf dem Server und
pulverisierten die lokalen Rekorde.
Mit v000nix konnte ich über Teamspeak ein wenig plauschen.

Damit in Zukunft mehr Spieler in den Genuss kommen sich akustisch auszutauschen
bin ich mit Schandmaul überein gekommen das wir ein Tutorial zu diesem Thema
verfassen werden.

Damit ich mich auch mal mit tmjonas unterhalten kann.

Vielleicht sollte ich den Spiel-Server ja als TMNF laufen lassen, damit erreicht man alle.

Das war nun keine böse Absicht, sondern mir gefällt TMUF einfach besser und man hat eine größere Auswahl an Strecken aus den verschiedenen envis..

So war meine Überlegung.

Mmmmhhh falsch?. Dann sorry.

Nix Surprise
sondern Sch…..

Dazwischen mußte ich auch noch meine Auswahl für die Schatzsuche treffen
und meine Nuggets bei contest@tmu-xrated.de abliefern.
der Einsendeschluß ist ja Sonntag 19.04.

Durch den Teamspeakserver habe ich auch die Möglichkeit einen TM-Blog oder wordpress-Besprechungsraum einzurichten, bei Bedarf mit password.(Na, ned scho wieder a password) .

Der Möglichkeiten gibt es noch mehr.

Anregungen, Wünsche und Beschwerden werden von unserem Team gerne und zahlreich entgegengenommen.

Nix für ungut.

Rapidoraton

http://yuuji.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/%E5%85%9C%E8%BD%89%E9%81%8E%E5%BE%8C/

四月十日晚．．．我登入Hong Kong VACC的Teamspeak伺服器，當天是Virtual CI 跟Hong Kong VACC辦的Fly-in Event

還記得2007年夏天，在一段時間以來大家對政策上和不小事情的看法發生不快之後，所謂道不同不相為謀，我就此淡出了這個教會我空管的Vacc。數個禮拜前，Jacky找了我就說可以讓我教學生；那我想了一想之後，就覺得在Vacc教飛就是以前一直在VACC做的事情，而且我自己正式也好，不正式也好都算是教過不少的學生。而且我知道VACC在2008年一些狀況後，都想重新發展回當日的運作，所以都要感謝一班「新加入」的空管，好比如說Kitty 和Andy 那些因為時間日漸過去而經已在rating 上比小的高的空管大w

就在event那天，Jacky給了一些申請作ATC Student的interview report給我選要教的學生。今天跟學生初步聊過幾句後，不得不配復命運的安排。 這個學生（我先不在這兒說出他的名字）現在在唸國三，對飛行蠻有興趣的，也在VATSIM上飛行過和當過Observer．．．剛好我回想起2006年4月，加入VACC的時候都是14歲，不同的是，我在第一次Vatsim的連線飛行中已對飛機（當時我的飛機為PSS777）操作沒有甚麼問題，空管程序都認識，沒有甚麼出錯就是了。

在過去的這些時間，人長大了，對以前很多事物的看法都改變了，尤其是以往的執意和無謂的堅持都放棄了。冷靜下來確是思考的好方法，只希望在我都可以放下以前的包袱時，新的管制員都可以跟我好好的相處。

剛過去的Fly-in Event

結果就在選好了學生之後，Virtual Dynasty跟我們的Fly-in event就要開動了，剛好人手在沒有分配好下，我就跑到了Tower的位置，接替當天開始時因為網絡問題不停掉線的3000 wwwww

還記得，我接觸FS的時候該是2003年，當時候台灣模擬飛行的盛況，今天再見不到了。那時候，最少四五家的模擬航空，他們加起來最少一百人的飛行員陣容，讓世界其他VATSIM 的FIR都很嚮往台灣有如此規模．．．可是就是一些大家之間的不屬意，令全台灣的VA拉大隊的跑到IVAO去，VATROC就是這樣在往後好幾年都變成了死城．．．就算是有Flight event也好，都難復當年勇。可是Virtual Dynasty新的飛行員，新的管理就把他們的飛行員帶回來Vatsim，我曾經的希望，就是台灣的模擬航空可以再次團結，回到VATSIM，算是實現了第一步。

冷靜，的確是解開矛盾的良方；命運，就是推動大家重新走在一起的無形之手

http://www.plurk.com/p/o18ra

Diskussion zum Thema: TeamSpeak Hack geschrieben in Allgemeines Forum, eine Kategorie aus dem Bereich Bereich: Cheat Forum ; Hi,kann mir einer zeigen wie ich im TeamSpeak SA hacke oder bekomme und wie ich einen Teamspeak hacke?…

via TeamSpeak Hack – Cheat-forum.eu – Hacks, Cheats, Bots….

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Ultimamente la nostra Community è davvero in subbuglio!!!

Sul canale di Teamspeak c’è sempre qualcuno pronto a giocare:

Wizard_of_id, xxxContexxx e banda si collegano per giocare a Shaiya (un fantastico MMORPG Gratuito);

SAMOX & IZIO sono molto impegnati nel testare la Beta di Battlefield Heroes (speriamo apra al grande pubblico al più presto);

neoDD69, FIOL, Puci e qualche volta darkvege si incontrano per sbattagliare e conquistare la famosa Karkand;

Alcuni sconosciuti come mistiko e  Gurthu Nekrozombie vagano per le lande Guild Warsiane a caccia di tesori…

Cosa aspettate a raggiungerci sul forum e unirvi a noi in questa baldoria digitale?!

Porto alla vostra attenzione una poesiola apparsa in TS scritta da un anonimo:

Fragga bene, fragga sano
fragga Izio da lontano.
E se invece l’hai vicino
tienilo bene nel mirino.
Se si imbosca quatto quatto
vai col pugnale di soppiatto.
Se è in un mezzo corazzato
Buuum!..col c4 l’hai purgato.

By Jason Kincaid

Voxli, a new Y Combinator startup launching today, is looking to make group voice chat as simple as possible. The service allows gamers and team members to visit a static persistent URL to join a group chat session, and features push-to-talk using a browser plugin. Voxli is available on Internet Explorer and Firefox (both Mac and Windows) with support for more browsers on the way.

At launch, Voxli is focusing on making its service appealing to gamers, who often like to speak with each other as they play team based games. In-game voice chat isn’t a new concept – I remember using a program called Roger Wilco to play Counter Strike nearly a decade ago. Since then games like World of Warcraft have made voice chat a necessity, as they revolve around large-scale group activities (called raids) where communication is essential. 

Now there are a variety of chat clients available, including Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, and Mumble. But most of these require manual entry of port numbers and server addresses, which can be confusing. Voxli gets around these issues by offering users a static URL that they can then send around to their team members, which is far more convenient. Voxli is also a browser plugin, not a native client, which the team believes will make it more appealing.

To use Voxli, users assign a hotkey to their chat room which they press whenever they want to speak in-game (the hot key works regardless of which application is open). The system supports up to 200 simultaneous users per room, and gamers can open new tabs if they’d like to participate in multiple chats at once (they can assign a different hot key to each room).

For the duration of its public beta period, which will last 1-2 months, Voxli will be free for everyone, with no registration required to get started. This lack of restrictions comes with one major caveat – there’s currently no way to restrict access to your chat room, so a rival guild member could potentially infiltrate your group (the Voxli team says introducing restricted rooms is a top priority). Eventually Voxli will begin charging users a modest amount, but the team says that its reduced infrastructure costs (they use services like EC2) will allow it charge around half of what its competitors cost.

We’ve finished version 0.01.8, and will probably get it into .iso format by the end of the day.

We’ve added one thing to the Game Server edition of Forian:

• Teamspeak server.

In other words, we’ve added support for voice servers. Not major, but certainly helpful.