Voice channel like in Discord

[Majaspic]

Hi

It would be nice if Riot integrate this feature. Voice call and video calls should be different than Skype, make it original :)

[lampholder]

Discord supports enabling voice in a channel/room, such that everybody within that room is automatically engaged in the voice chat (with push-to-talk/voice level threshold detection to stop it being a mess of background noise, and users can mute themselves/silence the voice chat).

This would be a neat feature to have, but it would need some thought as to how this could/should exist alongside the existing voice paradigms.

[Hakker]

voice channels would be greatly appreciated here as well. It's a great thing since people can simply pop in themselves and don't get called all the time.

[wolfsblu]

It seems as though this feature would turn Riot into the only serious self-hosted alternative to Discord.
I find the idea of having "voice rooms" in general much more appealing than the concept of conference calls - I can join a voice room whenever I want to and see who's available, whereas calls have to be scheduled somehow and may be quite intrusive to the unsuspecting receiver.

Looking at the Discord feedback tracker a self-hosted solution is one of the more often requested features. So it might be a decent way to attract more attention to Riot/Matrix.

[BloodyIron]

I too would like to see this feature added to riot.

[BloodyIron]

Any word on this? March 2017 was original post, now it's 2018 :S

[BloodyIron]

@helmi77 I'm very much interested in self-hosting for this function! (if that isn't apparent by now, heh).

[Half-Shot]

I'm actually wondering if a good way of fixing this is just having two distinct rooms, where one room might be "voice disabled" where users cannot start calls and another room which is a regular voice enabled room. This could all be done in state fairly easily.

As far as a voice channel goes, that's entirely a UI that discord uses to hide the behind the scenes stuff. All Riot would need to do to emulate that would be to replace the call button with a join button and remove the (frankly silly) dialing noises and music.

[t3chguy]

@Half-Shot music and dialling don't exist with jitsi anyway which will be replacing freeswitch which has the music anyway

[Half-Shot]

Yup. The only thing I've not yet clarified @t3chguy is whether the Jitsi stuff is all behind the scenes and Riot will build it's UI around it rather than being an ugly widget?

And I will miss the music :(

[ara4n]

the idea is to integrate jitsi transparently, just as freeswitch is today. the mobile platforms do this already. one slight issue is that jitsi is also not working perfectly, but we do also have a plan C (which some day we might make some progress with).

[BloodyIron]

So will we need too run our own jitsi servers for Riot to use? Or is it baked in there? I'm not sure.

[ara4n]

it will (eventually) support running both your own jitsi and using the matrix.org hosted one.

[Half-Shot]

Thanks for the clarifications @ara4n. This has gone off topic a bit and I think that answers everyone's questions.