Features

Voice Chatter is still under heavy development, but the feature set is large enough to be useful in the general case. So just because a feature isn't listed doesn't mean that it won't be integrated soon.

Currently, Voice Chatter implements the following features:

Talk with friends, family, or teammates over a fast and clear connection
Ability to use text chat for anyone without a microphone
Support for all 3 major platforms
Admin features including kick/ban and move clients
Saved server list for easily managing any servers that you use
Password protected servers and channels
Nested channels
Codec quality/bandwidth usage control
Support for ALSA, Windows MME, DirectSound, and CoreAudio
Voice activated transmission
User comments
Text to speech and/or audio file event notifications
Automatic microphone volume normalization

There are plans to integrate the following in the near future:

Support for OSS
Logging of text and voice conversations
User to user file transfers

The Technical Info

Voice Chatter uses UDP for communication for the fastest possible communication. This is why Voice Chatter is able to provide such low latency for voice communication. It also makes the network code a lot simpler and more efficient.

If someone is dropping a lot of voice packets, they are simply dropped rather than guaranteed to be played at some later time. This also means that there are no more "recaps" of conversations long over like in other voice communication software.

Only free, open source, and cross-platform libraries were used, so as long as the libraries support a platform, it is just a matter of compiling Voice Chatter on that platform to get it running. Speaking of which, I really need a mac developer to create the mac ports of VoiceChatter. See the Contribute page for details.