Houston Vehicles elite “Where Machines Of War Blaze Paths Of Bloody Fury” has chosen Mumble for their voice communication needs. |HV| will be leaving their home on TeamSpeak, of 5 years, and moving to Mumble. This decision was not made lightly by the administration. But after evaluating several voice over ip solutions. We chose Mumble.

Why Mumble?

Mumble can be used for any kind of voip activity but is primarily intended for gaming. Low latency and high quality sound make it ideal for team based games. Cross platform compatibility gives the user choice where they can run Mumble under Windows, Linux or Mac OS X.

What makes it special?

Quoted from the Mumble FAQ

“One word: Denoising. This is a standard part of Speex 1.1 and above, and any voice product already implementing speex should be able to trivially include the same filtering. Removing the noise from the input means that the audio will be clearer and that the needed bitrate will decrease. It takes fewer bits to model clear voice than it does to accurately represent the noise, so in any noisy transmission a large share of the bits will be noise modelling. “ I may not be the smartest guy on earth but this sounds pretty good to me. What else does Mumble offer?

Positional Audio!

Mumble uses positional audio currently in this list of supported games. The current list of supported games allow you to hear the other players so that the voice of your teammates coming from their direction in game. Mumble works with all games but the current list. Only games for which a plug-in has been written get positional audio. All other games will work as well, you just will not get 3D sound. Here is the list of games supporting positional audio in Mumble.

• Age of Chivalry¹
• Battlefield 2¹
• Call of Duty 2¹
• Call of Duty 4¹
• Call of Duty: World at War¹
• Counter-Strike: Source¹
• Day of Defeat Source¹
• Dystopia¹
• Garry's Mod 11¹
• Half-Life 2: Deathmatch¹
• Insurgency: Modern Infantry Combat¹
• Left 4 Dead¹
• Team Fortress 2¹
• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory¹

Games supported in the current stable release through the Link v1.0.1 plugin:

• Warsow
• Sauerbraten
• ioquake3
• Regnum-Online

Games supported in the current git tree:

• Battlefield 2142¹
• (All plugins in the stable release.)

Houston Vehicles will be running Teamspeak and Mumble concurrently with Teamspeak being phased out . The timeframe for this has not been determined. Please contact the admins for your login information.

 A screenshot walkthrough is available hereThis should provide all the information needed to connect. As of this writing the current version of Mumble is 1.1.8 . 

If you need further help there is a video available here.

More setup screenshots here.