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<rant> Maybe if those "modern" video-conference apps had one, decades old option that was (and still is) avaliable in almost all gaming-oriented voice softwar
by tester756 6y ago
<rant>
Maybe if those "modern" video-conference apps had one, decades old option that was (and still is) avaliable in
almost all gaming-oriented voice software (ventrilo, mumble, teamspeak, discord) called
PUSH 2 TALK
then this problem would be solved, same with the problem of kids/other people in the background (especially this)
but yea, we need AI/Blockchain based solutions that require thousands of hours of engineering effort that probably will be provided by some Startup and cost 15$.
It's insane how enterprise software is behind gaming in that particular matter, do those people even use their software?
</rant>
edit.
What's PUSH 2 TALK?
PUSH 2 TALK is not TURN ON / TURN OFF switch where you actually mute yourself. It's that you talk while having some button being pushed down e.g MOUSE SCROLL (MOUSE3) (for me it's probably one of the most practical choices)
so in this case you're always muted unless you want to talk
Why it's so great? because you can e.g play game, write code, do stuff on your PC and when you want to mute yourself, then you don't have to try to find some shortcuts or even worse - put video-co app on focus and click mute button, but instead you just stop pressing your PUSH2TALK hotkey! :P
- banana_giraffe 6y agoZoom at least has such a feature, I use it all the time. There's some strange psychological thing getting some people to mute their side. I guess it's because some people are used to a ton of noise around them they assume others are ok with it too, but I'm probably reading way too much into things.
- tester756 6y ago>There's some strange psychological thing getting some people to mute their side. I'm not sure whether we're at the same page here PUSH 2 TALK is not TURN ON / TURN OFF switch where you actually mute yourself, it is that you talk while having some button being pushed down e.g MOUSE SCROLL (MOUSE3) (for me it's probably one of the most practical choices) so in this case you're always muted unless you want to talk
- goldbeck 6y agoSpacebar does that on Zoom :) Mute yourself and then hit spacebar. You'll be unmuted until you release Not sure if this is on by default, by the option for this behavior is in Preferences > Audio > Press and hold 'Space Key' to temporarily unmute Though tbf, Zoom has to be in focus in order for that to work
- tester756 6y agoBut you have to have zoom "on focus"? e.g can you write code in your fancy IDE and hit space to unmute temporarily yourself? edit: Ok, I now see >Though tbf, Zoom has to be in focus in order for that to work
- nxpnsv 6y agoI guess you use tabs :)
- gingerlime 6y agoI have a yeti nano, which has a physical mute button. It’s super useful. I only wish it could: automatically switch the mute indicator on zoom, so others can see I’m on mute push to talk mode would be neat instead of click to unmute and another to mute again anybody knows if the button is hackable in some way? (osx)
- OkGoDoIt 6y agoIf you’re on windows you can use AutoHotKey to map a key or key combination of your choice to route to the spacebar in zoom, regardless of focus. I’ve done something similar for media control for apps that don’t have global hotkeys.
- ezekg 6y agoTheir version of push-to-talk is useless since, like you mentioned, you have to keep Zoom in focus. I don't know about you, but I never had Zoom in focus when I used it. I was always multi-tasking.
- 6y ago
- lwhsiao 6y agoNote that Zoom only has this for Windows. It doesn't for their Linux client, which is unfortunate.
- jeffbee 6y agoIt does have this feature on the mac.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoThe Mac client has it. I did find out the hard way that the combination of Mac's VNC server and my client on Windows send a stream of press-and-release messages when I press and hold the space bar on the remote side. It took me a surprisingly long time to figure out what people where describing when I tried to speak.
- asutekku 6y agoAnd it’s super inconvenient. I prefer to not press my keyboard every single time i need to speak, because otherwise i would be pressing my keyboard all the time. Edit: everyone suggesting me to use my mouse: i use a laptop without a mouse and sit on my sofa while in meetings. I prefer to unmute myself while there’s a discussion where I’m part of and mute myself when I’m not talking anymore. Push to talk every 10 seconds for 10 minutes is much more inconvenient than just having the mic on all the time. Note that I do not work as a programmer.
- tester756 6y ago>I prefer to not press my keyboard Use your mouse then - e.g scroll button (on push, on scroll, whatever you want) or side buttons on modern / gaming mouses
- bulletsvshumans 6y agoI set up a footpad for push-to-talk while gaming. Surprised more people don't do it, especially in a high performance context.
- bullen 6y agoHow do you set it up though, on the OS or in each app and with what software?
- bulletsvshumans 6y agoThere's probably a better way, but I bought a pedal that was for transcriptionists, which came with software that allowed you to bind it to a keypress. Then I made sure that key was mapped to push-to-talk on a per app basis.
- ganafagol 6y agoSuper convenient to map it to esc. As a vim user. Meeting while using vim? Need a second pedal!
- 6y ago
- maxerickson 6y agoMy (businessish) headset has a hardware mute button. Given that a lot of business voice chat is essentially phone calls (rather than group meetings), it makes some sense that toggle predominates UI designs.