Basic questions about VC

[aspirin056]

Hi, I have a few basic questions about VoiceCraft.
I am very new to this area, but I am trying to use your software to teach English to students. Please bear with me if my questions are too dull to answer. My goal is to help my students interact in voice chat in the Minecraft world that I created.

1. From your tutorial video on YouTube, I understand that I need to construct the server-side VC in my Minecraft world. Students connect from the client side and bind to the Minecraft world when they join. Did I understand correctly? If I did, does it mean that each student needs a VDS server to use VC?

2. I successfully followed the tutorial, as shown in the image below, connecting to the client side in the VC Windows app. However, when I tried to connect in the single-play world, it constantly failed to connect. I followed the steps to allow loopback, but I still had no luck.

2-1. Extending from question 2, are you running Minecraft on VDS in your video? Is that the reason you use 127.0.0.1:8080 to connect the server? If I run Minecraft on the desktop and VoiceCraft on VDS, should I use /connect (My VDS IP):8080 instead? (Which I tried, but it still did not work).

3. Does VoiceCraft work on Minecraft Education Edition?

I watched your video multiple times and tried to figure it out by myself, but I really need some help.
Thank you so much for your time and effort.

[SineVector241]

For the client sided mode, you only need 1 voicecraft server. Binding is server sided mode which is a different setup as you need to set up a bedrock server and make that connect to the VoiceCraft server. So each client/student needs to join their own singleplayer world, run the /connect command to connect Minecraft to the VoiceCraft client then they can join your world.

Also I use a VPS (Virtual Private Server) for server sided and client sided in the video which acts like a standalone public windows server.

For each client/student connecting to the VoiceCraft server, no they do not need a VPS, they just need the client software and the IP to the VoiceCraft server which is your VPS.

The reason why I use /connect 127.0.0.1:8080 is because the VoiceCraft application hosts a websocket/MCWSS server internally so it can forward minecraft data to the VoiceCraft server. And no, I was not running minecraft on the VPS.

As for the education edition, I am not sure it will work because I have never tested it on that version plus it might have an updated MCWSS protocol that might not be compatible with VoiceCraft since it's based on an extremely outdated version.

[Miniontoby]

Btw quick note:
If you and your students are all on the same network and can reach ports from each other's computers, then you could just host the VoiceCraft.Server on your own PC and then let your students connect to the VoiceCraft.Server on your PC instead of needing a VPS.

VPS is only needed if it's across the internet. (And you don't specifically need a VPS cause you could get a VoiceCraft.Server for €0,44 per month at Atrioxhosting which is cheaper than a whole VPS). But if you don't need to go across the internet, then running on your PC will be fine!

[aspirin056]

Thank you for the answer. I followed the loopback permission as you recommended, but I still couldn't connect. Perhaps it's because I'm using the Education edition.
It feels like I'm so close, but it is what it is. Although I could not succeed with using VoiceCraft, it was nice to learn about and understand your software. Please let me know if there is an update for the Education edition. I'd love to use it with my students.
Again, thank you for your kind support.

[SineVector241]

No problem. I'll look into it since I have an education account so I'll try some things later this week.

[aspirin056]

Hi, I know you are very busy, and I don't mean to rush you, but I had to ask since you said you'd look into the education version. Was there any breakthrough? Thanks again.

[SineVector241]

Hi. I haven't been able to check yet as I have been working on v1.1.0 (you can check the progress here https://github.com/SineVector241/VoiceCraft-MCBE_Proximity_Chat/tree/dev). I will look into it after I get the update working and add it in as a supported protocol if I can get it working.