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May 25, 2003, 5:35pm

Built in voice chat would be nice.
Have it set up by world letting you only voice chat with others in the same
world you are in.
The feature would be listed on the tabs and can also be turned on or off.

One other chat program that has done this is excite chat.
They call it VP places.
It is just a chat program when you enter web urls to sites and anyone at the
same url as you shows up in the room as a chat picture icon of the users
choice can even make your own if you want.
And on the side you can turn the voice chat on or off and only hear those
looking at the same web site you are.
Last I was there I think they where using Hear Me for there built in voice
chat system.

May 25, 2003, 5:54pm

Would need to do it so that as people move away their voices are less
amplified so that it didn't get too much

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May 25, 2003, 8:17pm

No need for that.
As only one person can talk over it at a time.
And can only talk uninterrupted for a set time limit then it cuts them off
for another person to talk.
If you doing a meeting type chat you have to hit the talk button again to
pick up where you left off at.
This feature keeps people from hogging it.
That feature would also stop someone from just putting the mic next to a
radio and blocking all voice chat.
It also has a mute feature to mute users to you don't hear them.
Seems to work very well on there chat program.



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May 25, 2003, 8:30pm

[View Quote] You must not have ever played Counter-Strike or Day Of Defeat.

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--Bowen--

May 26, 2003, 1:51pm

For Voice Chat i say no.
We don't need it, it is unnecessary, if someone wants to voice chat try a
different chat room, that is the beauty of AW, it doesnt have voice, and i
guarantee if it would get voice people would be like "Brock why dont you
talk" Because i think voice chat is stupid........

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Brock - 308723 - DE Leader

May 26, 2003, 3:51pm

yeah
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May 26, 2003, 4:35pm

SAPI would be nice for just text to speech

- Mark

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May 26, 2003, 4:57pm

Brock, why don't you talk???

:-D

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May 27, 2003, 3:11pm

Actually, there used to be a program called HearMe which worked seamlessly with Active Worlds by opening in the built in web frame (which you could then close, and still use the program through the keyboard) and although it felt in many ways like a part of Active Worlds, those of us who were using it still did most of our talking through text. It was nice though, to have the option of setting aside the keyboard for a while when we felt like it.

TechnoZeus

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May 27, 2003, 9:22pm

there still is a program called HearMe and many used it, it was free now you
have to pay for it to use it.



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May 28, 2003, 6:11am

Ah, okay. I wondered what ever became of it. The old web site stopped working a long time ago, and for years I found dead ends every time I attempted to track down where it had gone to. Thanks for that info. :)

Unfortunately, the key what was used by Hearme (at least when I used it) as a push-to-talk button, is now used by Active Worlds also... so ther would be a conflict if that key hasn't changed in HearMe, and if no way has been added to remap that function.

TechnoZeus

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May 29, 2003, 5:18am

Hi everyone:

[View Quote] There's still Paltalk. Ever heard of it?? It's stil;l free last time I
checked. :-)

Patrick

May 30, 2003, 5:28am

Yep.. as a matter of fact, I have it installed on this computer... although the installation is so old I'm not sure it will still work with the latest version... also, PalTalk doesn't work seemlessly with AW the way HearMe used to... or at least, didn't the last time I checked. What I'm talking about, is being able to use it without changing programs. No need to use Alt-Tab or to click on an icon or anything like that.. you just set it up and then you can turn off show web and simply hold a key when you want to talk, and release it when you're done. It litterally felt as if it were a part of Active Worlds. I had links up at some of my builds so a person could just click a sign and they would be able to talk with my in Active Worlds using the push-to-talk key. (I'm pretty sure it was F9, which now toggles Show Tabs).

TZ

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Jun 5, 2003, 4:54am

But then again with a remap on 3.4 you can change that so it shouldent be a
problem...

- Mark

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Jun 5, 2003, 10:34am

Nope... that's not a re-mappable function in AW 3.4 ... at least, not yet.

TechnoZeus

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