5 little-known and rarely used functions of voice chat

Voice chats significantly extended their functionality during the last years but many people use them in the old fashioned way, missing their wide capabilities. Below we will describe the 5 little-known and underrated voice chat capabilities.

So here they are:

The direct talks

Besides group communication, you can also talk to someone directly, not excluding communication in a group. This will be very handy if you need to discuss something with your friend and don’t disturb other team members, while staying in touch with whole team. This can be done using "individual calls" or by assigning hotkeys for communication with particular players.

Hot keys

At the first glance it seems to be a good idea to put a whole team in one group where all members can hear everyone. You have no need to repeat twice the same, everyone is aware of everything. But behind this simplicity hides multitude of problems: total noise in the air, often conflicts, confusion and constant interruption. All these problems can be avoided by dividing team into groups with clearly defined objectives. Communication between groups can be configured by assigning hotkeys. Players may communicate with the entire group as well as with certain people. Beside communication function you can set keyboard shortcuts to the most popular commands and functions to save vital time. Indeed, instead of climbing in the game settings, all can be done just by pressing a couple of keys.

An officer's creation and giving rights

As we know, a creator of a voice server has all possible privileges and features but it is hard to do everything by himself. That’s why many chats allow to create special users (officers) with certain rights and privileges, such as: block, ban, mute other users, create rooms, restrict access to them, create other officers, etc. This is especially useful if you have a large guild and players has different responsibilities or they are divided into different groups which someone has to lead.

Ranks and hierarchy

If every player of the team do what he wants, the result will be only one, chaos. Anyway, players are forced to listen to commands of experienced players and follow to their instructions. To do this process more smooth and make words of guiding players come to others without any interruptions or interference. Voice chats offer to build a hierarchy, based on the user’s rank. So a player with a larger rank will speak with a higher priority and can be interrupted only by a player with even larger rank. In addition to the communication priorities, users may have special rights such as the ability to manage other users, linked to their ranks.

Multiple listening

Splitting of the team into several groups can improve organization but also it leads to the isolation of players within groups. In order to avoid this, voice chats offer a multiple listening. Users in the group are able to listen other groups.

These functions are just several examples of little-known and underrated features of voice chats but there are actually much more. We hope we inspired you to try go deeper in understanding of how voice services can help you in group communication.

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