System-wide Push to Talk

[TheArmKing]

Would adding support for system-wide Push to Talk be possible? Currently, it will only work if the window has focus (as stated by Discord on the browser version itself), but is there any workaround?

[yannhodiesne]

I don't know if it is possible, but it's worth a try

[BE-CH]

This should be possible. You can use Electron GlobalShortcut https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/global-shortcut for a system-wide keyboard shortcut.

The only concern is finding and running the Discord javascript that enables the microphone and transmits the audio.

[yannhodiesne]

The only concern is finding and running the Discord javascript that enables the microphone and transmits the audio.

I've got two ideas in mind:

• Abusing the mic off button of the Discord client, not clean at all but will work fine
• Using a preload script to wrap a custom function around the browser's sound API, to have control over the stream requested by Discord and mute it whenever the globalShortcut is not pressed

My only concern about the second one is the CPU usage, we will need to keep an eye on the activity monitor while testing it