Push-to-Talk, but works at Pulseaudio level, so it works on all apps at once. It has a single global "walkie-talkie button" that mutes and unmutes the microphone (I use the Windows key).

Very useful for remote work:

- you can type on mechanical keyboards during calls without annoying your co-workers

- if you move away from your computer for a while, the microphone will be muted, so you avoid background noise and embarrassing situations

- if you un-mute the microphone without touching the trigger key, it will remain un-muted. In case you want to have longer conversations. Touching the trigger key will mute it again

Maybe it is psychological but I really want to see current mute status visually to rely on it. Else I assume that I am not on mute. This is not really rational if the function works reliably ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23168784

My Thinkpad also has microphone mute button with a LED, so I already have this.

It's pretty simple to add notifications, just change this script to invoke a wrapper script that uses "notify-send" then runs "pulseaudio-ctl":

    notify-send "Muted: $1"
    pulseaudio-ctl mute-input "$1"

https://gitlab.com/somini/inpulse-to-talk/-/blob/master/inpu...

Add notifications to the app?

I can mute my headset using a switch on the headset itself. So this project turns a key on your keyboard into such a switch?

You can meet just the microphone and not the headphones? If so, that's a cool feature to have.

I think it’s a pretty standard feature of the 5 or so headsets I’ve bought over the past 8-10 years. Price point: USD 25

This is correct. Every headset I’ve purchased has had this feature, but I’ve only purchased gaming headsets.

Edit: this is the headset https://www.astrogaming.com/en-us/products/headsets/a10-gen-...

Also, this is not an endorsement, I would actually not recommend this headset.

yeah my gaming headset has that but I can't see the headset so there is a tone for mute and one for unmute. I can't remember at all what is what so I don't bother