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Comparison table
Name | License / Source | OS | Opus Codec | CELT Codec | Speex Codec | GSM Codec | Other Codecs | Overlay | Noise canceling | Positional audio 3 | Skins |
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GameVox | Commercial / Closed 2 | Windows | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | Server Themes |
Mumble | Free / Open | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iPhone | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
TeamSpeak 2.x | Free Client, Commercial / Closed 1 | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | External | No | No | Modified files |
TeamSpeak 3.x | Free Client, Commercial / Closed 1 | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X | ? | Yes | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? |
Ventrilo 2.x | Free Client, Commercial / Closed 2 | Windows | No | No | < 2.3.x | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
Ventrilo 3.x | Free Client, Commercial / Closed 2 | Windows, Mac OS X | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
VoiceChatter | Free / Open | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (Intel only) | ? | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Mohawk Voice | Commercial / Closed | Windows | ? | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
Skype | Free / Closed | Windows, Linux, Mac OS X5 | No | No | ? | ? | Yes4 | ? | ? | ? | ? |
- 1: The TeamSpeak client is free to download. Hosting a server for free is limited.
- 2: Ventrilo is free for personal/non commercial usage with some limitations.
- 3: You hear your teammates as though they are speaking from their relative position in-game.
- 4: Skype uses proprietary codecs. More recent versions use SILK.
- 5: The Linux and OS X clients offered by Skype offer limited functionality compared to the Windows client, and are updated far less frequently.
Video
- Latency Tests
- Ventrilo vs Teamspeak 3 vs Mumble
- Mumble vs Ventrilo Latency Test (YouTube Video)
- Mumble vs. TS2, Ventrilo - Transmission Delay (Latency) (YouTube Video)