Voice rooms and calls

Rooms are listed under Voice rooms in the column; the people inside show under each room. Click a room's name to go in; to join with your microphone off, right-click the room and choose Join muted. While you are in a room, the strip at the bottom stays on every page: your microphone, your sound and leaving are there.

In Messages, open the conversation with the person or the group and press Voice call in its header. When a call comes in, the card in the corner offers Answer or Decline. A call nobody picked up stays in the conversation as Missed call, and Call back returns it.

In Settings › Voice and video, choose your Input device and Output device. Under Mic test, press Start test and speak: you hear yourself in your headphones. While the Devchaos window is in front, Ctrl Shift M turns your microphone on and off, and Ctrl Shift D your sound.

With Voice activity chosen under Input mode, your microphone opens by itself when you start speaking. Choose Push to talk and you are heard only while you hold the key down. The key is Right Ctrl to begin with; Change key lets you pick another key or the mouse's middle or side button. The key works even while another program is in front.

Noise suppression has three steps: Off, Standard and Strong. Strong pushes keyboard, fan and room noise down harder and uses a little more processor. Echo cancellation stops the sound from your speakers from going back into the microphone.

Voices travel live through Devchaos's own server; nothing is recorded in rooms or calls. There is no camera yet: its button stays greyed out.