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📣 hammock

Video chat apps that don't mute crosstalk


One of my biggest pet peeves/downsides of video chat is that they (by necessity) mute all other lines when someone is talking, to prevent feedback. If everyone is wearing headphones rather than listening via speakerphone/computer, it's not longer necessary to do that.

When crosstalk is muted, it removes a huge interpersonal dynamic in natural conversation. If I can convince my team to use e.g. airpods for all video calls, I'd like to find a video service where we can talk over each other as well.

Do you know of any?


  👤 wikibob Accepted Answer ✓
- make sure everyone is using headphones or earphones

- use zoom and enable “Original Audio” under advanced settings and disable the echo cancelation.


👤 Nextgrid
If audio-only is acceptable, Mumble is very good.