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What's even more inconvenient is you broadcasting all your background noise to everyone on the call, or worse, echoing the call itself due to not using a headse

• dunefox 6y ago
  Or, you know, one can increase the voice activation level so that that's not the case?
  • TeMPOraL 6y ago
    Or end up in a situation where your voice is heard choppy on the other end, as voice activation triggers too late. Often also missing short replies. Push To Talk is more reliable.
    • dunefox 6y ago
      It works reasonably well for me for most normal, constant background noise. It's not perfect obviously.
  • vehementi 6y ago
    Ah the "unicorn voice activation level" argument :D I've never seen anyone get that working perfectly in my decades of using VOIP for gaming and work.
    • dunefox 6y ago
      It's not perfect, but it's the simplest option for me for normal background noise that works reasonably well as long as you don't change much. Definitely an option if you want to play games or work at the same time as talk.