Say – terminal‑first voice and video call utility

Say is a terminal‑first voice and video call utility that builds an embedded Yggdrasil node via ygg and speaks directly to other peers over the Ygg overlay network.

Audio is captured with malgo (miniaudio), encoded as G.722, and optionally sent via UDP for lower latency. Video frames are sourced through gocam, compressed then rendered in the current terminal session using Unicode glyphs.

This is free and open source software.

Features include:

• Embedded Yggdrasil node – no separate daemon required.
• G.722 voice (8 kHz / 48 kbps) with configurable frame size and UDP/TCP transports.
• Video streaming directly in the terminal two‑pane layout.
• Simple newline text bridge when media is disabled.
• Friend list bootstrap via the same config.json that holds the Yggdrasil settings.

Website: github.com/svanichkin/say
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Developer: s.vanichkin
License: MIT License

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