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Almost real, it's just missing loud audio feedback loops.

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Also no mystery heavy breather/loud typer.

What about the guy who speaks his native language in a dialect that nobody can understand.

And then there's the non-native speaker...

Mine had a Loud Typer, and someone called on them to mute out. Just like IRL.

We have a guy with a mechanical keyboard on the team. After a while people just started muting him in Hangouts. It's not even the mechanical keyboard itself that's the problem, but the way it interacts with whatever noise-filtering algorithms Hangouts runs.

I love mechs. I hate that no business VoIP app has push-to-talk. I keep having to switch windows to unmute, talk, and mute myself.

I'm growing to like them too; I'm not using one right now, because of issues on my Linux desktop (my xmodmap settings keep resetting every couple minutes), but maybe one day I'll buy a better one or solve the problem with the (cheap) one I have.

I would pay extra for this feature. We used to use Mumble for voice chat before hangouts was a thing, push-to-talk is the best.

You should consider getting a headset that has a physical mute button on it.

Sorry posted the wrong code. You will find what you need at this page for microphone mute.

https://autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=15509

> I love mechs.

Your office neighbors do not.

Nobody minds since we're in an open office anyway so everyone has to wear headphones to block all noise to get any serious work done.

Or, y'know, we work from home.

And heavy breather who despite everyone trying to get their attention..... they clearly are not paying attention ... but will be the first person to send a stupid email after the call.

And that inevitable callback that goes to the attendee's voicemail instead.

A good number of "Training" videos at my work are recorded meetings / webinars in which someone demonstrated a skill or walked through an issue. I've watched maybe 40 of these archived videos so far. There is not a single one that does not have the meeting eventually brought to an abrupt halt when an attendee starts shouting "MAILBOX OF EXTENSION X-X-X-X IS NOT AVAILABLE."

That's kind of a weird thing to shout on a conf call; I tend to go with "WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!" ;D

And people starting to speak at the same time and stopping multiple times due to a few seconds of lag

There's definitely both of these items if you listen long enough.

"...if you listen long enough." O__O That much conference call purgatory is not healthy

>just missing loud audio feedback loops

I've got one!

This is absolutely awesome piece of art. I've worked at the BigCo for the 7 years (switched to startup a 3 years ago) and this site turned me on so much nostalgia.

Also missing Zoom audio artifacts.

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