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> For the love of all that is decent with humanity, use push to talk. I’d love Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, et al., to implement push-to-talk, and give an option
by souterrain 8y ago
> For the love of all that is decent with humanity, use push to talk.
I’d love Zoom, WebEx, GoToMeeting, et al., to implement push-to-talk, and give an option for mandatory use to conference call organizers.
- bbrks 8y agoI think Zoom now has a preference for holding down space to temporarily unmute your mic. But I fully agree, push-to-talk should be absolutely mandatory for any calls with more than 2 people in them.
- piyh 8y agoZoom has to have focus which rules out using PTT while presenting or multitasking while meeting.
- flarg 8y agoZoom does, long press the space bar to talk
- btown 8y agohttp://mizage.com/shush/ http://mizage.com/shush/ for anyone on a Mac is a godsend. Emulates a hardware PTT (can be toggled to push to silence) before audio ever gets to applications. Best $5 I've ever spent.
- Fnoord 8y agoWhat's so special about this? Discord has PTT and PTS native.
- flamtap 8y agoThe reply is suggesting it as a solution to the problem for apps other than Discord, which the parent comment mentions.
- Fnoord 8y agoAFAIK Ventrilo, TeamSpeak, and Mumble each support this
- flamtap 8y agoIt's definitely common in gaming-focused apps, but not in the general or business focused apps like Skype, Slack, Teams, etc. We use Teams on our team, and my current PTT technique is to Ctrl+Shift+M to unmute and mute every time. Très annoying.
- btown 8y agoNot to mention that often the mute button in many of these apps needs to execute hideous amounts of WebRTC-related Javascript in Electron, delaying your mute significantly. Signalling the CoreAudio OS system directly as Shush does is the right layer for the job.
- Fnoord 8y agoIIRC even Skype has that option. Can you not bind this directly in Windows/macOS?
- kadendogthing 8y agoSkype only has "push to mute."