Ventrilo 3.0.5

Ventrilo is a great option for serious gamers who play multiplayer online games with team missions. Similar to other programs like TeamSpeak, Ventrilo allows you to maximize your team’s success by maintaining voice contact among the entire team while playing online. Best of all, the program is free and compatible with most versions of Windows.

Ventrilo is one of the most efficient tools you’ll find for maintaining verbal communication in group settings over an internet connection. The program offers several setup options so that it doesn’t get in your way or distract you while you are playing.

For example, you can decide whether you want to enable or disable the notification sound when someone connects to the group, set the time after the last sound is emitted to cut the transmission, and configure your microphone with several different options. One interesting option is you can have a computerized voice announce the nickname of a player when they join or leave the group.

Perhaps the only downside to Ventrilo is that it is such a complete program with so many different options that it might seem complicated and overwhelming when you first use it, but like all things, it gets easier with practice.