What is the easiest way to chat with friends or even people you don't know? An instant messenger service, like Yahoo Messenger?
Typing only takes you so far. Eventually you get bored or tired of writing, and would rather talk.
Skype? It's a great piece of software, but you need more freedom when it comes to channels.
TeamSpeak 3 is a voice chatting tool that allows you to easily speak with people from all over the world over a channel. All you need is a server and a password.
Configuring it is very easy because TeamSpeak 3 is probably one of the best organized and well-documented software ever created. It offers information, tips and explanation every step of the way.
Once installation is complete, you are provided with the Setup Wizard Steps, so you don't get lost right from the beginning.
After this, you have to test your microphone by adjusting the level of your voice (TeamSpeak takes into consideration the background sounds, whispers and breathing), and optionally assign hotkeys to enable Microphone Mute and Speaker Mute.
Tips are offered every step of the way. For example, when you choose your nickname, the software tells you this is only to display your identity, and not in any way connected to a username (which is usually permanent in other similar software).
Voice Activation Detection or Push-To-Talk can be enabled, so the software automatically recognizes your voice and displays your nickname to the other users, or awaits your command to do so.
What you need to do now is log on to a server, and start chatting with your friends. It's that simple!
CPU and memory resources are moderately used, and we haven't experienced any crashes or found any errors.
As a word of advice that TeamSpeak doesn't tell you: make sure not to play music on the background because it is heard by other users. And this might deeply disturb them (as it happened in our case).
So, if you want one of the best available software for voice chatting purposes, then you'll definitely like TeamSpeak 3.

What's New in This Release:
· Plugin API changed to 17
· Added away hotkey with away message.
· Added toolbar buttons set and delete for avatars.
· Added saving of ban duration for presets.
· Added tags for chat to prevent text in between beeing
· replaced with emoticons. Note: It's strict so both tags have to be found!
· Exported temporary password functions to Plugin API
· New getClientDisplayname function in Plugin API (client name including custom nickname, as configured in the contacts)
· Added special return value of -2 to Plugin init function. See test plugin for
· details. This return value should only be used in very rare situations.
· Added two(windows only) additional hotkey systems for keyboard and mouse for testing. The RawInput system can also handle joysticks and gamepads. Existing hotkeys will be backed up and converted to make them also usable for the new systems.
· Added dialog when trying to send a server chat without permission.
· Added new channel description preview (work in progress) which is a
· replac...