Abstract: Inhabited TV is a new and exciting medium for entertainment and social communication which combines CVEs with broadcast TV [5]. This paper explores motivations for and the design of scaleable audio service for CVEs used in Inhabited TV. We proposed a flexible and scaleable distributed architecture for real-time voice mixing which is specifically tailored to support very dynamic sessions, rapidly varying requirements and very high levels of participation. We also consider use of crowd audio synthesis and environment sonification which can minimise network traffic in the audio medium, and thus further increasing its scalability.
Key words: Inhabited TV, scalable networks, distributed architecture, real time processing.