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This (ahem) sounds fantastic. I’m currently doing VC off an iPad while sat in front of my Linux workstation. The workstation has no microphone. What kind of mic could I get for it, to migrate all my VC to the workstation?
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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.
Note that Zoom only has this for Windows. It doesn't for their Linux client, which is unfortunate.
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.
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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
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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?
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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
But 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
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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 use Nvidia Broadcast (formerly RTX Voice) for this. Only available for recent GPUs though.
It actually works on non-RTX cards too btw if you install the standalone RTX Voice app.
I have rtx voice running all the time (starts totaly silently with pc) and totaly forget its there. As I have headphones without mic my mic is positioned right between bottom rim of monitor and keyboard (mechanical) and this piece of magic filters keyboard sounds off like its not even there and leaves voice intact.
Absolutely adore that.
Somehow I fear that nvidia broadcast will ruin it. It is already getting bloater (hooks camera, background filters) and I fear it would ask for updates here and then. The quality I love about RTX Voice is that I dont notice it at all, apart from its tray icon.
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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
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.
That's not an "of course" thing (of course). All of the above mentioned apps (Discord etc.) support the PTT hotkeys being global. Windows and OSX support global hotkeys in apps.
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…