{"id":587,"date":"2020-01-31T16:14:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/?p=587"},"modified":"2020-01-31T16:20:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:20:25","slug":"google-meet-ptt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/2020\/01\/31\/google-meet-ptt\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meet PTT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/meet.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/meet.png 351w, https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/meet-263x300.png 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Google Meet team, what were you thinking?<br>&#8216;Ctrl+D&#8217; as the key combo to mute\/unmute your microphone? \ud83d\ude2e <br><em>(It&#8217;s also the combo for &#8216;Add Bookmark&#8217;, and depending on browser context Meet doesn&#8217;t always manage to trap the input. And it&#8217;s clunky.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I missed having a push-to-talk key, so I added my own. \ud83c\udf86\ud83d\udcfb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now in my video calls, I just hold down space to un-mute the mic, and let go to re-mute. Much better.<br><em>(and it should work for any language, and not interfere with any existing Meet functionality including chat)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Available as a Greasemonkey script: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MrTrick\/greasemonkey-scripts\/blob\/master\/Google%20Meet%20Hangouts%20-%20PTT.js\" target=\"_blank\">Google Meet Hangouts &#8211; PTT.js<\/a><\/li><li>Or as a bookmarklet:<br><code style=\"display:block;overflow:scroll\">javascript:(()=&gt;{var e=void 0;const t=t=&gt;({key:d,repeat:n,target:o})=&gt;{e&amp;&amp;e.isConnected||(e=document.querySelector('[data-is-muted][role=\"button\"]')),e&amp;&amp;\" \"===d&amp;&amp;!n&amp;&amp;!(\"value\"in o)&amp;&amp;e.dataset.isMuted===String(t)&amp;&amp;e.click()};document.body.addEventListener(\"keydown\",t(!0)),document.body.addEventListener(\"keyup\",t(!1))})();<\/code><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Meet team, what were you thinking?&#8216;Ctrl+D&#8217; as the key combo to mute\/unmute your microphone? \ud83d\ude2e (It&#8217;s also the combo for &#8216;Add Bookmark&#8217;, and depending on browser context Meet doesn&#8217;t always manage to trap the input. And it&#8217;s clunky.) I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/2020\/01\/31\/google-meet-ptt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[112,115,17,113,114],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-rants","tag-google","tag-greasemonkey","tag-javascript","tag-meet","tag-push-to-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}