Steam Voice With Silk

[DigiQ8]

[br]Valve today announced a Steam Client update to introduce the SILK voice codec.[br]

It's the same codec developed and used by Skype, makers of the world's most popular voice communication service. SILK provides a significant improvement to Steam's voice chat quality. It should be available both in one-on-one or group chats, and works both at the desktop as well as while a user is in game.

Steam Voice used to require 15 kbps of bandwidth, whereas SILK is a dynamic bit rate protocol which varies in its use of bandwidth between 8 and 30 kbps, depending on the range of data in the voice signal and current network conditions.

As of today's Steam client update, voice chat using SILK is available to all users of Steam. To start using Steam chat with SILK, simply click the 'Start Voice Chat' button within a friend or group chat on Steam. It's also available for all games that take advantage of the Steamworks Voice API.

 

[StarBob]

Now I can sing to people with much more clarity...

 

[Shakermaker]

Now I can sing to people with much more clarity...

Do you do requests?

 

[ríomhaire]

Does this affect in-game voice chats for the Source games?

 

[MuToiD_MaN]

Awesome.

 

[DigiQ8]

Does this affect in-game voice chats for the Source games?

Yes. And any game that takes advantage of the Steamworks Voice API.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Does this affect in-game voice chats for the Source games?

Yes it does.

 

[goldrunout]

Still it's very laggy. Audio quality is good, but everytime i talk my friends answer with a 1-3 secs delay. It's impossible to communicate