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Adding Voice Chat to Your Sessions

Sitting around and typing chat messages while playing your favorite online games seems to be a common occurrence. Even though these players can type quite quickly, and use a form of shorthand many times, the fact remains that in many types of games, the act of stopping to type a chat message leaves you vulnerable, even if only briefly. What you need is a hands-free way to communicate that allows you to keep playing the game. As humans, we've relied on voice communication for thousands of years, and unless you're using sign language, it's completely hands-free.

Adding voice chat into your application can be quite simple, although with a little extra work you can have full control over everything. To handle this ...