On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Lloyd Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a technological solution that could be used to voice > > chat with a small group (10-15) people, preferably using wifi, > > smart-phone apps, etc.? > > Voice chat between a small group is very popular in the gaming > community. Someone already mentioned Ventrilo (aka Vent), and the > other big player is TeamSpeak, but there's an open source alternative > called Mumble that has smartphone clients and is supposed to give a > pretty high-quality experience: http://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page > > +1 for Mumble. It doesn't cost anything but bandwidth unlike Vent and TS, and can be run from a raspberry pi easily. Setup the Pi as a wifi AP to a private network, have everyone use smartphones, and you're golden. I'd also go for a simple VoIP server on such a thing, but setting up a sip client can be a pain. Your call. -Tod Hansmann /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
