Jitsi Meet and Matrix are missing system-wide/background push-to-talk (PTT) (to replace Discord).
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Tell Jitsi -> github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/210
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Tell Matrix -> github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/15284
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Tell Element Call -> call.element.io (Settings > Feedback)
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Tell SimpleX -> github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/2398
Alternatives (obviously must be cross-platform end-to-end encrypted libre software)?
You can’t have e2e encrypted anything without identifying information about unique users. Nothing reasonably secure anyway.
SimpleX does it but is missing push-to-talk, no email, no phone number, no username or password, no sign up needed.
Email the devs, they’re really responsive
Great idea, actually found a similar issue on their GitHub.
SimpleX still has devices as users, you just don’t see it. If you’re just talking about some random PTT voice chat or something, I haven’t seen anything.
you just don’t see it.
I want that with push-to-talk. Easier to get acquaintances and randoms to join, easy to spread.
Instead of system wide PTT per-app you may consider some software that mutes your mic for all apps as PTT, then just leave the mic “active” per-app.
I don’t know if a tool that will do this but on my mouse I have configured a mic mute toggle. So I push to start and stop. However technically I don’t think there is any restriction to setting up PTT via this mechanism.
I found https://github.com/cyrinux/push2talk implements this idea for proper PTT on all apps.
Many games ban always open mic, so this would create double push-to-talk, forcing me to hold two keys together to talk in-game.
If I do, how do others on Windows and macOS copy me? I want to spread my way and get them off Discord.
Yeah, the nice thing about per-app is that you can configure it for each app separately. But I’ll be honest that isn’t something that I regularly do. If I am voice chatting with friends that will usually be a superset of what I want to send to a game’s voice chat.
I may try this for now, thank you. I am still looking for more simple solutions, so others can copy me easily.
Updated post to add:
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Tell Jitsi -> github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/issues/210
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Tell Matrix -> github.com/element-hq/element-web/issues/15284
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Tell SimpleX -> github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/2398
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