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'''Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.'''</center>
 
'''Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.'''</center>
 
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! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#F0F0F0; font-size:150%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #A4A4A4; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">For Users</h2>
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<ul>
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<li>Low-latency - great for talking and gaming</li>
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<li>Stay private and secure
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<ul>
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  <li>always encrypted communication</li>
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  <li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography Public/private-key authentification] by default</li>
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</ul></li>
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<li>[[Features#Persistency|Recognize friends across servers]]</li>
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<li>For gamers:
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<li>[[Overlay|In-game Overlay]] - see who is talking</li>
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<li>[[Positional-Audio|Positional audio]] - hear the players from where they are located</li>
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<li>[[Features#Wizards|Wizards]] to guide you through setup, like configuring your microphone</li>
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<li>[https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/blob/master/LICENSE Free software] - no licensing hassle</li>
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<li>[https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble Open Source] - open in security and technology, and open to extendibility</li>
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<li>[[Features#Access_Control_Groups|Extensive user permission system (ACL)]]</li>
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<li>Extendible through [[Ice|Ice middleware]]
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<ul>
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<li>[[3rd_Party_Applications#Web-Interfaces|Web interfaces]] - free choice of several community free software projects</li>
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<li>[[3rd_Party_Applications#Channel_Viewers|Channel viewers]] - even without direct Ice access, if the hoster provides the CVP, easily set up your channel viewer of choice</li>
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<li>[[Authenticators]] - to allow users to authenticate against an existing user database</li>
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<li>Custom chat commands and context (right click) menu entries</li>
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</li>
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! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#F0F0F0; font-size:150%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #A4A4A4; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">For Hosters</h2>
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<li>[https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/blob/master/LICENSE Free software] - no licensing hassle or cost</li>
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<li>Automatable administration through [[Ice]] middleware</li>
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<li>[[Commercial Hosting|Low resource cost]] for hosting</li>
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<li>Very stable server software</li>
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<li>Free choice of [[3rd_Party_Applications#Server_Software|server software]]</li>
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<li>Custom webinterfaces for users through Ice
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<ul><li>Or just host one of the free software [[3rd_Party_Applications#Web-Interfaces|web interfaces]]</li></ul>
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</li>
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<li>Provide users with channel viewer data ([[Channel Viewer Protocol|CVP]]) without giving control away
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<span class="plainlinks">[http://trolltech.com/products/qt http://trolltech.com/logo.png]</span>
 
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<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.speex.org/ http://www.speex.org/images/logos/parrot_speex_org-3.png]</span>
 
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<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.klocwork.com/ http://public-cfd1.klocwork.biz/www/_img/_img/logo.png]</span>
 
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<small>Mumble has been analyzed with Klocwork source code analysis, the most accurate and comprehensive tool for finding critical programming errors and security vulnerabilities.</small>
 
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<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.zeroc.com/ http://mumble.sourceforge.net/w/Ice.png]</span>
 
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<small>Murmur uses ZeroC Ice as a RPC framework, enabling flexible remote control</small>
 
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<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.magicermine.com/ http://mumble.sourceforge.net/w/ermine.png]</span>
 
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<small>The binary distribution of Murmur was made portable to different Linux distributions with Magic Ermine</small>
 
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Revision as of 19:24, 30 May 2013

Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming.

For Users

For Administrators

For Hosters

  • Free software - no licensing hassle or cost
  • Automatable administration through Ice middleware
  • Low resource cost for hosting
  • Very stable server software
  • Free choice of server software
  • Custom webinterfaces for users through Ice
  • Provide users with channel viewer data (CVP) without giving control away
    • Or empower the users by providing the Ice interface

Get Mumble

OS Stable Release Development Snapshot
Windows 1.2.19 1.3.0-rc2
Windows x64 - 1.3.0-rc2
OS X 1.2.19 1.3.0-rc2
OS X (Universal, Legacy) 1.2.10 1.3.0~2729~g2126495~snapshot
Ubuntu Stable Release PPA Snapshot PPA
iOS 1.3.0 -
Static Linux Server 1.2.19 1.3.0-rc2
Static OS X Server 1.2.19 1.3.0-rc2

Get Involved

News & Blog

  • 2017-05-03 Progress Report: April 2017
    This month, we continued work on features for 1.3, some bug fixes and code improvements. We also improved our wiki documentation and categorization and in small parts our README, INSTALL and manual texts. We did some fixes and improvements on … Continue reading
  • 2017-01-27 Mumble 1.2.19
    The Mumble team has released version 1.2.19 of the Mumble VoIP application. Version 1.2.19 is a bugfix and security release in the stable 1.2-series of Mumble. This version of Mumble fixes a problem where the output of Murmur’s -limits command … Continue reading
  • 2013-12-09 Mumble 1.2.3 and 1.2.4 released

    Obviously, you read it elsewhere by now. Sorry we forgot to publish news here on sourceforge for our past releases. We will try to do next time. :)

Our Blog News:
<a class="" href="http://blog.mumble.info/mumble-1-2-3-released/" rel="nofollow">Mumble 1.2.3 released</a>
<a class="" href="http://blog.mumble.info/mumble-1-2-4-released/" rel="nofollow">Mumble 1.2.4 released</a>

  • 2012-10-30 Mumble 1.2.2 Released
    Mumble just released version 1.2.2. This release introduces local caching of textures and comments, improved overlay quality including avatar support, ability to query for user information and much more.

For a complete list of new features, see http://mumble.sourceforge.net/1.2.2

Documentation

 
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