Out of Pod Experience

I don't have too much experience with these yet, thus wanted to ask if one exists that offers the following.

Core requirements:

1. the possibility for users to be active on several channels at the same time
2. allowing users to control which channels they are talking on/listening to independently
3. reliabilty
4. good audio quality

Nice to have:

1. creating/deleting channels via API
2. adding/removing users from channels via API
3. hotkey binding for core requirement 2
4. enumeration of the channels a user is active on to simplify nice to have 3
5. a nice and functional overlay

Thanks in advance for your answers. In case this topic is misplaced, please move it to the technology lab.

Not sure if you are trolling.

Mumble can do everything that TS3 can and then some. Mumble is also way easier to secure and manage. If you are doing some dinky WoW Raid then use vent or TS3.

If you are doing anything in EvE best to go with mumble.

In terms of communication through multiple channels...

I can connect to a single mumble server press a hotkey and be instantly broadcasting to as many different alliance mumbles as I want. It's actually how I command and give instruction. You just can't do that with TS3.

I'm surprised OP has yet to know of TeamSpeak.

Sounds good, but not quite what i'm looking for yet. The idea here is hierarchical fleet comms.
Let's say you have e.g. 5 players in a squad. One of them, the squad commander, talks and listens on his squad's channel, but also listens to the respective wing channel. Via a hotkey s/he can toggle talking on the wing channel. The wing channel on the other hand consists of 5 squad commanders and the wing commander. The wing commander uses the same mechanic to permanently listen to and occasionally talk on the fleet channel. ...and so on, you could stack hierarchy tiers ad infinitum.

Disadvantages:

• information travelling through multiple tiers will be delayed
• information travelling through multiple tiers might not get relayed, thus not arrive at its destination at all
• more overhead when adding new members to the fleet

Advantages:

• negative impact of bad comms discipline is lessened
• people can talk more, since fewer people hear them, leading to a more "fun" experience and more information getting shared
• information is encapsulated, meaning slightly lessened vulnerability to spies and also most people getting to hear less information that's irrelevant to them
• more than one primary target can be called at any given time
• non-english-speaking fleetmembers could be integrated with just one translator as the root of their subtree

Anyway: It's more of a theory i had in mind than an actual issue. I don't have any practical experiences with fleet warfare in eve yet. Only while watching some videos it seemed very much like 1 person speaking and 99 others shutting up most of the time.

I do realise that the whole thing could be achieved by multiboxing your VoIP software. However avoiding this might circumvent additional complications.