- For gaming users, we offer the two top-rated platforms for group voice chat: Ventrilo and Teamspeak.
- Ventrilo features both group and
user-to-user communication, access control, text-to-speech,
built-in text-chat, intelligent voice-activated mute/unmute,
surround sound quality audio, nested channels, and more, all within a
simple-to-use and unintrusive client application.
- Teamspeak features group chat, a
highly configurable user permissions system, customizable
banners, in-client links to clan/guild web pages, as well as
reliable client applications for Windows, Linux and Mac OS
X.
- anVox offers affordable servers
on rock-solid systems built
with the needs of serious gamers, guilds and clans in mind. We
work closely with datacenter providers across the world to
provide local low-latency links for your users on
enterprise-class hardware, protected by the leading security
tools. We offer unmatched server uptimes and 24/7/365
support.
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| Feature Comparison |
VT |
TS |
| Group voice chat |
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| Private user-to-user voice chat |
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| Supports temporary and permament channels, subchannels |
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| Ability to listen in on channels without joining |
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| Ability to record and play back voice streams |
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| Cross channel communication |
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| Flexible access control and user limits |
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| Password protection per-server and per-channel |
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| Custom user logins |
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| Voice-activated mute/unmute |
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| Push-to-talk |
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| Text-to-speech voice generation |
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| Built-in text chat |
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| Scriptable remote status |
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| Moderated channels |
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| Customizable banner images |
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| In-client links to guild/clan site |
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| Server pricing |
| 10 slots monthly package |
$5 |
| 20 slots monthly package |
$10 |
| 30 slots monthly package |
$15 |
| 50 slots monthly package |
$20 |
| Custom packages for 50+
slot server start from 40¢/slot. Please contact us for
details.
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| 1 slot = 1 concurrent connection. Users
and channels are unlimited.
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| Codecs |
VT |
TS |
GSM 6.10 (8-44KHz 16bit audio)
highest quality, Windows only |
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Speex (8KHz 16bit audio) all bitrates
cross-platform |
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Speex (16KHz 16bit audio) all bitrates
highest quality, cross-platform |
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DSP Group TrueSpeech (8KHz 16bit audio)
low bitrate |
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Lernout & Hauspie (8KHz 16bit audio)
low bitrate |
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CELP 5.1
low bitrate |
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| Clients |
VT |
TS |
| Microsoft Windows |
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| Linux |
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| Mac OS X |
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