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Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by banana_giraffe » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:11 PM UTC

tester756 wrote: post #54

banana_giraffe wrote: post #52

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Zoom 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.

>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

Yep, that's exactly what I do in Zoom.

It's the space bar, and not global (of course), but I stay muted 100% of the time, and press and hold the space bar while I'm talking, then let got when I'm done.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by telesilla » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:24 PM UTC

nucleardog wrote: post #44

telesilla wrote: post #33

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krisp.ai is good but $3 a month

For what it's worth, I tried it and it was... not great? Versus piping my audio through OBS as a way of using RNNoise and doing noise gating, OBS retains the original audio quality quite well and does a really good job of removing clicks/clacks/etc. Krisp made my voice sound like I was talking through two tin cans and a string, and, at least in my environment, did not do a very good job of actually removing any of th…

I've only had excellent experience with Krisp, but I have a semi-pro USB mic I use so perhaps it makes all the difference. Sounds great also with a macbook built-in mic.

That said, I'm interested to see open source alternatives as I'm interested to see how they work.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by lwhsiao » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:30 PM UTC

banana_giraffe wrote: post #52

tester756 wrote: post #48

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 e…

Zoom 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.

Note that Zoom only has this for Windows. It doesn't for their Linux client, which is unfortunate.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by gingerlime » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:32 PM UTC

goldbeck wrote: post #59

tester756 wrote: post #54

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>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

Spacebar 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

I 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)

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by bulletsvshumans » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:35 PM UTC

asutekku wrote: post #57

tester756 wrote: post #48

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 e…

And 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 seco…

I set up a footpad for push-to-talk while gaming. Surprised more people don't do it, especially in a high performance context.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by bullen » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

bulletsvshumans wrote: post #65

asutekku wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And 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 seco…

I set up a footpad for push-to-talk while gaming. Surprised more people don't do it, especially in a high performance context.

How do you set it up though, on the OS or in each app and with what software?

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by bulletsvshumans » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

bullen wrote: post #66

bulletsvshumans wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I set up a footpad for push-to-talk while gaming. Surprised more people don't do it, especially in a high performance context.

How do you set it up though, on the OS or in each app and with what software?

There'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.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by kahrl » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:46 PM UTC

asutekku wrote: post #57

tester756 wrote: post #48

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 e…

And 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 seco…

Right. So what are you doing on a computer if not pressing keys on a keyboard all the time?

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by jeffbee » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:47 PM UTC

lwhsiao wrote: post #63

banana_giraffe wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zoom 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.

Note that Zoom only has this for Windows. It doesn't for their Linux client, which is unfortunate.

It does have this feature on the mac.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by singlow » Fri, Jan 08, 2021, 8:48 PM UTC

Zelphyr wrote: post #17

I'd like to see something like this built into the Operating Systems. Maybe it's just me (misophonia) but having someone typing while a conversation is happening is so distracting as to make it next to impossible to follow the conversation. The same applies to people who use wired Apple earbuds when the mic rubs against their clothing.

Or people who leave their slack notifications audible while they are on video calls. The whole team is on the call and someone posts to the channel and you hear 10 slack notifications.