SPIRIT Releases Voice Conferencing Engine for MMOGs
SPIRIT DSP, a provider of voice and video software engines, has announced TeamSpirit Conferencing Engine for developers and publishers in the gaming market. Designed mainly for Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOGs), TeamSpirit Conferencing Engine, with its superior VoIP capabilities, enables game developers to satisfy the market’s requirement for in-game voice chat that is a must-have feature for MMOGs, claims the company. The engine contains a scalable SPIRIT IP-MR wideband codec, which can adapt to any bandwidth connection without transcoding. Smart conferencing manager Multi-PASS noticeably decreases voice traffic and preserves high speech quality for conferences, due to sophisticated active speaker selection algorithms.Spirit says that TeamSpirit Voice Conferencing Engine can handle 1200 concurrent connections on a dual-core Intel-based server, without any noticeable degradation of voice quality. At the same time, SPIRIT’s engine provides up to 20 percent improvement in voice traffic efficiency compared to similar solutions.”MMOGs have unique requirements that not all vendors can satisfy,” said Slava Borilin, VP Product Development at SPIRIT DSP. “A first-class solution must support diverse user terminals; it must provide superior wideband quality under adverse conditions; it must, as much as possible, reuse existing infrastructure to save investments; and it must be economical to purchase and maintain. Our Voice Conferencing Engine is the only one that satisfies all these requirements, and more.”SPIRIT is in discussions with several leading MMOG developers and publishers who see voice chat as the next level of gaming communication. Blizzard’s World of Warcraft game is powered by SPIRIT’s voice solution. Spirit Voice Conferencing Engine is also free of codec patent fees. TeamSpirit Voice%26Video Engine M-bile can also support potential migration of MMOG to mobile platforms.
