Scary mic
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6 years ago
European Union

If your microphone icon on discord looks like this https://i.imgur.com/I3EKQYb.png you're cutting off all sound being sent in from the microphone - no one can hear you.

if it's on, everyone can hear you talk who is in the same voice channel as you as long as you're not in a voice channel, no one will hear you scream.

Edited by the author 6 years ago
England

I do not understand you at all. Both here, and in general.

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Ireland

its chat with voice....

Antarctica

I’m really not sure of a good way to explain this since voice chats are pretty self explanatory.

In discord you have text channels and voice lobbies. Text channels are where you type messages, voice lobbies are where you can join to physically talk to people through your microphone. Those lobbies have a little mic icon next to them vs the # symbol for text channels.

Unless you’re a voice lobby (you click on it to join) then your mic is not sending audio that can be heard. Discord is perfectly free of risk provided you know how to use to use it. If you don’t want people to hear you through your mic, don’t join a voice lobby or mute your mic in discord by clicking on the icon like HDK showed you.

If you compare it to something like Skype, unless you’re in a call with someone, they won’t hear you through your mic but you can still type messages to them fine. Discord is the same way - unless you’re in a voice lobby or a private call with someone nobody will hear you through your mic.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
6 years ago

You're not stupid, @UbuntuJackson. Maybe a little ignorant/naive (some of the stuff you've professed to not knowing, I don't know how someone could not know them), but stupid people remain stupid. You clearly want to learn, and that's cool SeemsGood

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Esperanto

As someone kinda new to discord myself, I think I might be able to explain.

On a given server, there are multiple chat rooms... usually looks something like, #general, #speedrun, #bugs, etc. Every hashtag is another chat on the server.

Then there are audio chats. They have the little speaker icon next to the time instead of hashtags. When you click on one of these, you enter an "audio chatroom." That will put you in the room, which will allow you to hear everyone talking. You still have to unmute your mic to talk in a room like that.

So given you don't click on those rooms and activiate your mic, then no, you don't have to worry about leaking audio out to strangers.

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California, USA

Another thing you can do is go onto discord and find the little cogwheel for the settings menu. https://gyazo.com/5536b836aff96622e3ba78e78173f8f2

Then go to keybinds https://gyazo.com/ef7f5171ad368f0e1f87f7aa92a94300

Add a keybind https://gyazo.com/b5dc45e1ccb298c2422f28167e6f0460

Ignore the thing that says keybinds are disabled, I don't know why that is like that.

Once you click add a keybind you will see this https://gyazo.com/7f7df31affc3eab4377f209b37f5e2d1

Click on the action dropdown menu and you will see this https://gyazo.com/31a7d98d4261dc7d8da408dc5bca9b9b

Choose "toggle mute"

Go to keybind https://gyazo.com/d89f28f2c488c175a6cdaa97cf3274cf

And record your keybind, preferably to something that you do not use a lot (for me that is the home key but for you it could be something else).

Now whenever you need to mute or unmute your mic, hit whatever key you have bound to that action.

North Brabant, Netherlands

@UbuntuJackson There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. Just ignore those and listen to those who seriously answers your questions, like these guys.

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