Photon Voice 2

Name: Photon Voice 2
Brand: Photon Engine
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (57 reviews)

LaunchedOct 20187.6y

UpdatedFeb 20263.4moActive

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Pros

Photon Voice 2 is widely regarded as a powerful, free, and essential tool for integrating high-quality voice chat into Unity multiplayer projects. It offers seamless compatibility with PUN 2, is highly customizable, and provides a robust solution for developers looking to add proximity or standard voice communication to their games, particularly in the VR and FPS genres. Many users appreciate the ease of setup in clean projects and the responsive support provided by the publisher for specific platform requirements.

While it is the industry standard for free Unity voice integration, its tendency to catastrophically break existing projects makes it a high-risk dependency that requires a full version-controlled backup before every single import.

Cons

The asset is notorious for causing significant integration conflicts, often breaking existing projects or causing compilation errors when imported into established codebases. Users frequently report issues with package decompression, missing dependencies, ambiguous method calls, and platform-specific failures on devices like HoloLens or Oculus Quest. Documentation and examples are often described as insufficient for complex use cases, and the lack of timely support for critical bugs can leave developers with non-functional projects and no clear path to resolution.

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Description

Note: Version 2.50 contains breaking changes. Please see the release info or Assets/Photon/PhotonVoice/changes-voice.txt for migration guide.

Excellent sound quality due to the Opus codec and direct audio capture hardware support or software audio processing if capturing with Unity Microphone API.

Windows, UWP/Hololens, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, WebGL and other platforms are supported.

Can be used standalone or integrated with other Photon network solutions or third party audio modules for capture, playback, processing, lip sync, speech recognition, and more.

The package includes PUN2, Fusion, FMOD and WebRTC Audio Processing integration modules.

Inherits all Photon Realtime API features including matchmaking, interest groups, encryption, etc.

Native modules are provided for all popular platforms to better support audio hardware.

Audio playback via audio source preserves the location of audio stream in the 3D scene.

Demos of standalone Voice, PUN2 integration and Fusion integration are included.

Scales automatically in Photon Cloud's global hosting centers in US, Europe, Asia & Australia to any amount of concurrent users you need

All for FREE including hosting in our Photon Cloud for up to 20 CCU.

For details please read our Photon Voice documentation or visit our product website.