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What sort of range does voice have?

Ciaran Laval
Mostly Harmless
Join date: 11 Mar 2007
Posts: 7,951
08-01-2007 04:09
I've used voice a little bit lately, mostly just with someone stood next to me but I was wondering how far away you can hear people's conversations?

I was on a sim having a look around and could hear two guys having conversation over quite a few parcels. Hearing everyone else's conversations would start to annoy me to be honest.
Meni Kaiousei
knowledgebase junkie
Join date: 6 Nov 2006
Posts: 162
08-01-2007 04:14
From: Ciaran Laval
I've used voice a little bit lately, mostly just with someone stood next to me but I was wondering how far away you can hear people's conversations?

I was on a sim having a look around and could hear two guys having conversation over quite a few parcels. Hearing everyone else's conversations would start to annoy me to be honest.


QA in the knowledge base says 40-80 meters:

Q. Why did my audio stop working after a while?
A. One of several things may have happened:

- You moved to a non voice-enabled region
- You moved to a different voice-enabled region and failed to connect
- You are out of audible range (40-80m) of other avatars that are voice-enabled
- Your viewer's audio connection has become disconnected