It seems that Linden Labs has finally removed the hardcoded vivox.com references in 1.22 making third party voice chat work with the original slvoice.exe.
At the same time Rob Smart from IBM stepped up the game and provided a solution for FreeSWITCH that now also works without an SLVoice replacement. I’ve also been looking at FreeSWITCH for a while and just when I finally have some spare time to play around with it, this new module comes out: and it’s really awesome! First of all, it works without having to install kernel modules or suffer the lack of proper SIP Session-Timer (RFC4028) implementations.
There are three components needed for this setup.
Because the new FreeSWITCH module is experimental, it is only found in trunk, and as usual, please note, that trunk is **unstable **it might have serious bugs, it can corrupt your data, or eat your children, especially if you do the unthinkable and try to install it in a production environment, which you should never do. Ever! No exceptions. If you are brave enough, you can proceed very carefully and try out the trunk.
I tried the Windows binary snapshot from here: and it works well. For configuration instructions take a look at the OpenSim wiki page. Linux installation instructions are also included there.
Only versions later than 1.22 are supported, so be sure to grab a newer version from Linden Labs.
After setting up FreeSWITCH and OpenSim, connecting to the grid and enabling voice chat by default nothing will happen. Conference chat won’t work with the default estate settings, because parcel voice is disabled. In the video, I’m setting “Use a private spatial channel”, but “Use the estate spatial channel” should work as well. Enable voice, and it will work now. After this, conference and private chat features will work. On my setup, I found that private chat is quite clear and easy to understand, but the spatial conferences are way too low quality, but that might be a configuration issue on my environment.