Planeshift & TeamSpeak?

[Ikarsik]

mmm teamspeak is cool, i use it in eve. What people do in eve is corporations set up their own dedicated TS servers and then give out the ip and password to the server to everyone in the corp and then anyone that wants to can log onto the TS server.

One thing i find with TS is when 2 people are speaking at once, it becomes very hard to understand them.

but anyway if guilds/groups/friends just set up their own TS servers with different channels for different things like different hunting groups then you could make channels private and on public channels server/channel moderators could ban people they didnt like. Ingame you just use a spare key on the keyboard such as \'t\' for TS key to press when you want to talk.

 I like TS because it lets you know the people ingame better, because you can actually hear their voice, and its also alot of fun using it for the first time.

with the OOC sounding voices, i guess you just dont talk to people with high, squeky voices. OOC sounding voice would be just like OOC text, except alot worse.alot.

[Seytra]

I don\'t like this idea at all. It would, as has been stated, severely break the immersion. Yes, textual chat is extremely restricted in it\'s usability, especially when moving (though that issue can be at least partially remedied). However, unless decent voice converters are available under GPL or comparative terms it would just not work. Also unless TS is GPL, I don\'t want it in PS. Addint any non GPL stuff, especially making it required (by having it replace the chat) would be bigotism for a FOSS product like PS.

As for text to speech or speech to text... do these things work so well that they can actually translate strong accents? Several people in PS aren\'t native speakers and are having trouble formulating. This doesn\'t solely refer to spelling, but to articulation. So I imagine the speech to text part being as usable as translating text through an online translator three times back and forth.

[Jinkeen]

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[ramlambmoo]

I don\'t like this idea at all. It would, as has been stated, severely break the immersion. Yes, textual chat is extremely restricted in it\'s usability, especially when moving (though that issue can be at least partially remedied). However, unless decent voice converters are available under GPL or comparative terms it would just not work. Also unless TS is GPL, I don\'t want it in PS. Addint any non GPL stuff, especially making it required (by having it replace the chat) would be bigotism for a FOSS product like PS.

Agreed.  Teamspeak and other chatting tools are mainly for FPS or games like warcraft 3 (lots of DotA clans use it) when you need to communicate quickly, and without using your hands.  It doesnt really add anything to the immersion of the game.

[Drey]

so would people actually say \"/me does stuff\" ...? or talk about thenselves in whatever person it is.

for an out of game thing mebe... i would prolly come play if i could find a mic, would find some interesing accents. but in game its just silly

[backeroo]

Thanks to all of you for sharing your thoughts. I\'ve come ( for myself ) to the conclusion, that i agree with the people which are thinking that TS doesn\'t really fit with PS.
I guess, if a group of players likes to use something like TS, they can arrange a TS or even Skype Conference on their own without any problems, but i don\'t think, that this is something wich should be build into PS.
I hope, that if people are going to use TS or something alike on their own, that they will still give priority to the generally used text chat in PS. I wouldn\'t like to see PS spilt into voice and text chatters.

regards

  backeroo