Difference between revisions of "Voice"

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Voice is the ability to speak and hear other Residents in Second Life. See Voice Mentors: Getting Started with Voice for some introductory information.

Frequently Asked Questions

There's an exhaustive Voice FAQ which provides answers to many questions about the new voice feature.

Groups

The Voice Mentors group and Voice in SL: A Community Forum are advocacy and help groups for users having problems adjusting to the new system.

Settings

You can set your preferences directly in your Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml file, or you can set them from the viewer.

Some settings can be made through the UI panels, but all can be set from the advanced menu.

If you haven't already done so, you enable the Advanced menu using

PC - Ctrl-Alt-D
Mac - Ctrl-⌥ Alt-D

Note: In some cases, there may be a shortcut conflict with another application. In which case, hold down Ctrl-Alt-⇧ Shift-D.

(not to be confused with Ctrl-Alt-Del).

Then select:

Advanced -> Debug Settings

Note: If you are on Mac OS X, this key combination can possibly hide your Dock. If this happens, click the Apple icon (upper left) then click Dock, then click Turn Hiding Off.

to get the Debug Settings window. In the selection box, hit the triangle to bring up the list of debug variables and select the setting that you wish to change.

Here is a list of settings relating to Voice chat together with their default values and descriptions.

AudioLevelMic: 1.0; Audio level of microphone input

AudioLevelVoice: 1.0; Audio level of voice chat

EnablePushToTalk: TRUE; Must hold down a key or moouse button when talking into your microphone

EnableVoiceChat: FALSE; Enable talking to other Residents with a microphone

Mute Voice (starting in version 1.19.0): FALSE; Voice plays at 0 volume (streaming audio still takes up bandwidth)

FloaterActiveSpeakersRect: 0 300 250 0; Rectangle for active speakers window

OverdrivenColor: 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0; Color of various indicators when Resident is speaking too loud.

PushToTalkButton: MiddleMouse; Which button or keyboard key is used for push-to-talk

PushToTalkToggle: FALSE; Should the push-to-talk button behave as a toggle

ShowVoiceChannelPopup (starting in version 1.19.0): FALSE; Controls visibility of the current voice channel popup above the voice tab

SpeakingColor: 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0; Color of various indicators when Resident is speaking on a voice channel.

VivoxDebugLevel: -1; Logging level to use when launching the vivox daemon

VivoxDebugServerName: bhd.vivox.com; Hostname of the vivox account server to use for voice when not connected to Agni.

VoiceCallsFriendsOnly: FALSE; Only accept voice calls from Residents on your friends list

VoiceEarLocation: 0; Location of the virtual ear for voice

VoiceHost: 127.0.0.1; Client SLVoice host to connect to

VoiceImageLevel0: 041ee5a0-cb6a-9ac5-6e49-41e9320507d5; Texture UUID for voice image level 0

VoiceImageLevel1: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 1

VoiceImageLevel2: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 2

VoiceImageLevel3: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 3

VoiceImageLevel4: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 4

VoiceImageLevel5: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 5

VoiceImageLevel6: 29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83; Texture UUID for voice image level 6

VoiceInputAudioDevice: Default; Audio input device to use for voice

VoiceOutputAudioDevice: Default; Audio output device to use for voice

VoicePort: 44124; Client SLVoice port to connect to

WarnFirstVoice: FALSE; Enables FirstVoice warning dialog

Recording

See Torley Linden's page on Voice recording

LipSync

See the LipSync page for information on lip sync for voice chat.

Technical

Voice in Second Life uses Vivox technology that is based on RTP (using the oRTP library), SIP (using the amsip library from Antisip), OpenAL, TinyXPath, OpenSSL, and libcurl for the transmission of voice data. The positional 3D audio is achieved with technology from DiamondWare. These technologies are contained in external daemon software that is started and stopped by the Second Life client.

For more details, see the Voice/Technical page, or have a look at the official ViVox documentation on the JIRA.

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-'''Voice''' is a feature that made its debut on its own grid and beta viewer in March of 2007[http://news.cnet.co.uk/gamesgear/0,39029682,49289943,00.htm].
+{{Help|Multimedia=*|Communication=*|Glossary=*}}
+'''Voice''' is the ability to speak and hear other Residents in Second Life.  See [[Voice Mentors: Getting Started with Voice]] for some introductory information.
 ==Frequently Asked Questions ==
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 The [[Voice Mentors|Voice Mentors group]] and [[Voice in SL: A Community Forum]] are advocacy and help groups for users having problems adjusting to the new system.
-==Technical==
+==Settings==
+You can set your preferences directly in your '''Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml''' file, or you can set them from the viewer.
+Some settings can be made through the UI panels, but all can be set from the [[advanced menu]].
+If you haven't already done so, you enable the Advanced menu using
+* '''PC''' - {{KeyCombo|ctrl=*|alt=*|D}}
+* '''Mac''' - {{KeyCombo|ctrl=*|opt=*|D}}
+{{KBnote| In some cases, there may be a shortcut conflict with another application. In which case, hold down {{KeyCombo|ctrl=*|alt=*|shift=*|D}}.}} (not to be confused with {{KeyCombo|ctrl=*|alt=*|Del}}).
+Then select:
+: Advanced -> Debug Settings
+Note:  If you are on Mac OS X, this key combination can possibly hide your Dock. If this happens, click the Apple icon (upper left) then click Dock, then click Turn Hiding Off.
+to get the Debug Settings window.  In the selection box, hit the triangle to bring up the list of debug variables and select the setting that you wish to change.
+Here is a list of settings relating to Voice chat together with their default values and descriptions.
+:;AudioLevelMic
+::1.0
+::Audio level of microphone input
-Voice in Second Life uses [http://www.vivox.com/ Vivox] technology that is based on RTP (using the [http://www.linphone.org/index.php/eng/code_review/ortp oRTP] library), SIP (using the amsip library from [http://www.antisip.com/ Antisip]), [http://www.openal.org/ OpenAL], [http://tinyxpath.sourceforge.net/ TinyXPath], [http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL], and [http://curl.haxx.se/ libcurl] for the transmission of voice data. The positional 3D audio is achieved with technology from [http://www.dw.com/about.php DiamondWare]. These technologies are contained in external daemon software that is started and stopped by the Second Life client.
+:;AudioLevelVoice
+::1.0
+::Audio level of voice chat
-The SecondLife viewer handles configuration, control, and display functions, but the voice streams (from the microphone and from the Vivox voice server) do not enter the viewer.  Unfortunately the source code for the external SLVoice daemon is not available due to contractual obligations between Linden Labs and Vivox.
+:;EnablePushToTalk
+::TRUE
+::Must hold down a key or moouse button when talking into your microphone
-The executables can be found in the Program Files\SecondLife directory of the runtime and in the linden\indra\newview\vivox-runtime\(platform) directory of the source distribution.
+:;EnableVoiceChat
+::FALSE
+::Enable talking to other Residents with a microphone
-* SLVoice.exe
+:;Mute Voice (starting in version 1.19.0)
-** Thin wrapper around the [http://www.vivox.com/ Vivox] SDK
+::FALSE
-** Launched when voice is enabled in SL
+::Voice plays at 0 volume (streaming audio still takes up bandwidth)
-** Runs a TCP server that listens and replies to commands and queries using an XML format
-* SLVoiceAgent.exe
-** Actually called the [http://www.dw.com/about.php DiamondWare] Thin Voice Client
-** Launched by SLVoice
-** Unclear how this fits in the communication chain
-* vivoxsdk.dll
-** The [http://www.vivox.com/ Vivox] SDK
-** Used by SLVoice.exe
-** Uses a solution from [http://www.antisip.com/ Antisip] for SIP, RTP, and G.711
-** Uses [http://www.openal.org/ OpenAL] for playing and recording audio
-** Additionally implements the [http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-G.722.1-200505-I/en G.722.1/C] (aka Siren14) codec
-* ortp.dll
-** Real-time Transport Protocol (RFC3550) stack under LGPL
-** Used by vivoxsdk.dll
-** Originally from [http://www.linphone.org/index.php/eng/code_review/ortp Linphone]
-** Distributed as part of amsip by [http://www.antisip.com/ Antisip]
-* wrap_oal.dll
-** [http://www.openal.org/ OpenAL], a cross-platform 3D audio API
-** Used by vivoxsdk.dll
-* alut.dll
-** The [http://openal.org/openal_webstf/specs/alut.html OpenAL Utility Toolkit (ALUT)]
-** Used by vivoxsdk.dll
-* ssleay32.dll and libeay32
-** From the [http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL Project], a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.
-** Used by SLVoiceAgent.dll
-* tntk.dll and srtp.dll
-** Part of the [http://www.dw.com/about.php DiamondWare] distribution
-** Apparently not used
+:;FloaterActiveSpeakersRect
+::0 300 250 0
+::Rectangle for active speakers window
+:;OverdrivenColor
+::1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0
+::Color of various indicators when Resident is speaking too loud.
-See also: [[Third Party Libraries]]
+:;PushToTalkButton
+::MiddleMouse
+::Which button or keyboard key is used for push-to-talk
+:;PushToTalkToggle
+::FALSE
+::Should the push-to-talk button behave as a toggle
-===SLVoice===
+:;ShowVoiceChannelPopup (starting in version 1.19.0)
+::FALSE
+::Controls visibility of the current voice channel popup above the voice tab
-SLVoice is started from the viewer in SLVoiceClient::stateMachine() using:
+:;SpeakingColor
+::0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0
+::Color of various indicators when Resident is speaking on a voice channel.
-:'''SLVoice.exe -p tcp -h -c -ll <''VivoxDebugLevel, default -1''>'''
+:;VivoxDebugLevel
+::-1
+::Logging level to use when launching the vivox daemon
-usage: '''SLVoice [''flags'']'''
+:;VivoxDebugServerName
+::bhd.vivox.com
+::Hostname of the vivox account server to use for voice when not connected to Agni.
-valid flags are:
+:;VoiceCallsFriendsOnly
-:    [-ll <log-level>] 0-5, or -1 for no logging
+::FALSE
-:    [-lf <log-folder>]
+::Only accept voice calls from Residents on your friends list
-:    [-lp <log-file prefix>]
-:    [-ls <log-file suffix>]
-:    [-p tcp]
-:    [-i <address>] application sends requests to this address
-:    [-o <address>] gateway sends responses and events to this address]
-:    [-vo] vivox only functionality
-:    [-ov] (undocumented and unused)
-:    [-c]  (undocumented but used)
-:    [-h]  (undocumented but used)
-:    [-r]  (undocumented and unused)
-SLVoice.exe was called  vivox-gw.exe in the beta release, so you may still see some references to the old name.
+:;VoiceEarLocation
+::0
+::Location of the virtual ear for voice
-====IP Address====
+:;VoiceHost
-The SecondLife viewer uses IP address 127.0.0.1 (localhost), port 44124 to communicate with SLVoice, the voice client gateway.
+::127.0.0.1
+::Client SLVoice host to connect to
-It is possible to connect to a client gateway running on another host.  This is useful for testing.  According to comments in the source code: to do this, launch the gateway on a nearby host,
+:;VoiceImageLevel0
+::041ee5a0-cb6a-9ac5-6e49-41e9320507d5
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 0
-:  '''SLVoice.exe -p tcp -i 0.0.0.0:44124'''
+:;VoiceImageLevel1
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 1
-and modify the code in SLVoiceClient::stateMachine() to set the host IP address, '''mDaemonHost'''.
+:;VoiceImageLevel2
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 2
-====Logging====
+:;VoiceImageLevel3
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 3
-The logging for SLVoice is controlled by a viewer variable, VivoxDebugLevel.  You can set it directly in your '''Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\settings.xml''' file
+:;VoiceImageLevel4
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 4
-::	<nowiki><!</nowiki>--Logging level to use when launching the vivox daemon-->
+:;VoiceImageLevel5
-::	<VivoxDebugLevel value="5 -lf myDirectory -lp myPrefix -ls .txt"/>
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 5
-or you can set it from the viewer.  To set it from the viewer, you have to enable the Client menu if you haven't already using Ctrl-Alt-D (not to be confused with Ctrl-Alt-Delete).  Then select
+:;VoiceImageLevel6
+::29de489d-0491-fb00-7dab-f9e686d31e83
+::Texture UUID for voice image level 6
-: Client -> Debug Settings
+:;VoiceInputAudioDevice
+::Default
+::Audio input device to use for voice
-to get the Debug Settings window.  In the selection box, hit the triangle to bring up the list of debug variables and select VivoxDebugLevel.  In the text entry box, you'll see the current value.  Above it is the description, "Logging level to use when launching the Vivox daemon."  You can set the level as you like.  If you want the output to go somewhere other than the default location, you can enter it in the box as well, for example,
+:;VoiceOutputAudioDevice
+::Default
+::Audio output device to use for voice
-::	'''5 -lf myDirectory -lp myPrefix -ls .txt'''
+:;VoicePort
+::44124
+::Client SLVoice port to connect to
-If <log-folder> is a relative path, it is relative to the directory that SecondLife is running in, ususally '''C:\Program Files\SecondLife'''
+:;WarnFirstVoice
+::FALSE
+::Enables FirstVoice warning dialog
-The default folder is '''c:/Documents and Settings/<user>/Local Settings/Application Data/Vivox/logs'''.  The default prefix is '''SLVoice''' and the default suffix is '''.txt'''.
+==Recording==
-The log file is named <nowiki><log-file prefix>-<yyyy>-<mm>-<dd><log-file suffix></nowiki>
+See [[User:Torley Linden|Torley Linden's]] page on [[Voice recording]]
-The default on September 3, 2007, for example, would be: SLVoice-2007-09-03.txt
+==LipSync==
-The <log-level> must be at least 2 to see INFO messages and 4 to see TRACE messages.
+See the [[LipSync]] page for information on lip sync for voice chat.
+==Technical==
-Whenever log level is other than "-1", there is also a log file written to '''LL_PATH_LOGS''', which is usually set to '''c:/Documents and Settings/<user>/Application Data/SecondLife/logs''',
+Voice in Second Life uses [http://www.vivox.com/ Vivox] technology that is based on RTP (using the [http://www.linphone.org/index.php/eng/code_review/ortp oRTP] library), SIP (using the amsip library from [http://www.antisip.com/ Antisip]), [http://www.openal.org/ OpenAL], [http://tinyxpath.sourceforge.net/ TinyXPath], [http://www.openssl.org/ OpenSSL], and [http://curl.haxx.se/ libcurl] for the transmission of voice data. The positional 3D audio is achieved with technology from [http://www.dw.com/about.php DiamondWare]. These technologies are contained in external daemon software that is started and stopped by the Second Life client.
-with the <log-file prefix> "Connector," that contains log information for the Connector.  This logging comes from vivoxsdk.dll which is used by SLVoice.exe.  The content does not depend on the log level for SLVoice; the Connector.Create.1 request hardcodes the Connector log level at 10.
+For more details, see the [[Voice/Technical]] page, or have a look at the official [http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/attachment/12026/Vivox-SLVoice-SDK-2007-09-20.pdf ViVox documentation on the JIRA].
-[[Category:Voice]]
-[[Category:Features]]
+[[Category:Voice]] [[Category:Features]]