It’s for voice, so that your mic is only active when you press an activation button. It’s how most PC games do it, and I would say it’s how most folks on PC use voice. It’s honestly a pretty basic feature, and super frustrating that it seems not to be a priority.
Push-To-Talk when?
That would be huge and would make me and my friends switch from mumble/discord to matrix. However, i fear that high latency may be an issue.
What’s push to talk and why is it such a great feature?
It’s for voice, so that your mic is only active when you press an activation button. It’s how most PC games do it, and I would say it’s how most folks on PC use voice. It’s honestly a pretty basic feature, and super frustrating that it seems not to be a priority.
https://lemmy.world/post/18078903
That’s up to clients to implement, not part of the protocol.
But yeah its kinda dumb its not a thing in element