Mumble an excellent open source and multiplatform VoIP client

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Si you're on the hunt for low latency voice chat and the recording software for groups I can tell you that Mumble is a popular open source VoIP solution that can intelligently differentiate between voice and background noise, so this article may be of interest to you.

Mumble is a free multi-platform voice over IP application specialized in multiconferencing. Its main users are gamers, and it is similar to proprietary programs like TeamSpeak and Ventrilo. It uses a client-server architecture where users who want to talk connect to the same server.

The goal of Mumble's design is not so much to create the most elite gaming utility but to make it the most social. The goal is to recreate the feel and interaction of a LAN party.

Por eso Mumble has a very simple configuration interface and the greatest engineering effort is in its great sound quality and low latency.

About Mumble

Mumble simply offers a better balance of low latency and sound quality than other popular VoIP software.

This The app has significantly lower audio latency than Ventrilo and Skype, and the sound quality, which uses the open source CELT codec, is higher than theirs as well.

This client also uses positional audio, so the production is properly distributed between the surround sound speakers.

To connect to a group chat that already exists somewhere on the internet, all you need is a Mumble client.

A Mumble server (whose name is Murmur) has a main channel (root) and a hierarchy of channels from it. Users can link channels to create larger virtual channels.

This is useful for long events where a small group of users can speak on one channel, but they need to be able to listen to news announcements on a common channel. It is also used for first-person team games.

Each channel is associated with a set of groups and a list of user access permissions. The permission system is complex given the different scenarios, and this complexity makes it not trivial to configure the servers

You can either get a third-party client (such as Cmumble, a command line client for Linux), or you can go the traditional route and get the official Mumble client.

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Mumble runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

How to install Mumble on Linux?

Si you want to install this client on your system, you must follow the instructions that we share according to the Linux distribution you are using.

In advance I can tell you that most Linux distributions have the Mumble client in their official repositories, so you can find and install it with the help of your distribution software center.

That said, we can also go the traditional way from the command line.

If they are Users of Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any distribution derived from these, simply install with the following command in the terminal:

sudo apt-get install mumble

Now for those who are users of Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos or any distribution derived from Arch Linux we install with:

sudo pacman -S mumble

For those who are users of Fedora or any distribution derived from it, must be installed with this command:

sudo dnf install mumble

Now for those who are users of any version of OpenSUSE install from terminal with:

sudo zypper install mumble

Finally, para For the rest of the Linux distributions, we can install this client with the help of Snap technology.

We only have to have the support to be able to install applications with this technology in our system.

To install the client we only have to type:

sudo snap install mumble

There is a built-in plugin for use with games.This layer shows who is speaking and what channel they are on. Since version 1.0, users can upload their own avatars to represent them, creating a much more personalized experience.


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  1.   anesor said

    One thing, Mumble doesn't use the CELT codec, but Opus, just like Skype.