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23853: RE: [MUD-Dev] [TECH] Voice in MO* - Phoneme Decomposition and Rec onstruction
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From: lynx@lynx.purrsia.com
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 17:49:36 -0700 (PDT)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Koster, Raph wrote:
> I'm wondering anyone on the list ever experienced either of these
> two applications:
> - MPath aka HearMe, which wedded realtime voice to what were
> essentially IRC channels. Brian Moriarty has a great videotape
> of this in action called "Whispering Pines."
I worked at Mpath/Mplayer for quite a while (server-side
engineering) up to when they sold Mplayer to GameSpy, but never
spent much time in the chat on there. From what I saw, you just
pressed the microphone button to talk, released it when you were
done. It worked reasonably well, and was apparently popular enough
that we started making web-based voice-enabled chat rooms our
front-page business (HearMe).
We also had 'See and Hear Me', but well, shortly thereafter, we
wound up having to introduce an adult-locked set of chat rooms and
policing things for content a little more. Go figure.
We acquired Resounding Technology, Inc., developer of Roger Wilco.
If I recall correctly, asides from the basic voice stuff, it allowed
some improvements on standard peer-to-peer chat by finding the
clients with the best bandwidth and having them do the brunt of the
redistribution of packets.
If there's more you wanted to know, maybe I could pass word onto the
ex-HearMe/Mplayerites mailing list. ;)
-- Conrad
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