followers of the riveting¹ opensim-dev mailing list will have noticed that i “culled” AsteriskVoiceModule and SIPVoiceModule yesterday. the reason is quite simple: with the recent addition of the FreeSwitchVoiceModule we now have a voice module that works! and works without having to replace the SLVoice client that is part of the standard SecondLife® clients²

AsteriskVoiceModule which ansgar schmidt and i started last year — and which, together with work that alan webb and i did for the soon-to-be-released VivoxVoiceModule, provided the basis for the excellent work rob smart did for FreeSwitchVoiceModule — never really led to a complete voice solution as it required replacing SLVoice on the client side. rob figured out that FreeSwitch supported the same voice codecs that SLVoice was using and started experimenting. though FreeSwitchVoiceModule doesn’t (yet?) do spatial voice nor speaker indication it already works together quite nicely with SLVoice, so we decided to drop AsteriskVoice (and its little brother SIPVoice) from the opensim tree.