IRC voice channels, wait what?

Diane

I know there's been work on implementing some of the discord/slack bling in IRC, like emoji, replies, and editing, but voice channels?

I just saw voice channels mentioned on the side bar of a screenshot of this web IRC client.

https://github.com/ObsidianIRC/ObsidianIRC

And the draft IRC 3 spec's abstract says

"This document describes version 3 of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) protocol, which extends the original IRC protocol to include support for audio and video capabilities. It defines new message types, commands, and channel modes that allow for the transmission of audio and video data within the existing IRC framework, while maintaining backward compatibility with text-only clients and servers."

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-samuelson-irc-v3-00.html

wohali

@alienghic It's DCC, so all peer to peer, with IRC only acting as client discovery. No centralised broadcast so it won't directly scale beyond a few people

Even Jitsi is technically better than this with a similar tech arch.

Diane

@wohali

Ah so that's somewhat less of a shocking retrofit then.

Noisytoot

@wohali @alienghic There's also https://github.com/asiekierka/voirc which was intended as a joke but does actually work provided you aren't affected by flood limits (it base64-encodes voice messages and sends them directly over IRC)