So right now I'm using discord, and I play a lot of different games, all of which use different push to talk keys.
Gmod uses x, killing floor uses caps lock, team fortress uses v, and its annoying setting my push to mute in discord to X, or Caps lock, or V, or whatever else the current game im playing uses, just so my friends wont try responding to me using comms in game.
Is there a program that can read what game or process im using, and set it so when I press that games push to talk button, it mutes my mic until its released?
why not just rebind push to talk per game
or just not push it
I've found push-to-talk to be a nuisance in that regard, so I know your pain Digivee.
It's not exactly what you're asking for, but my solution is to also use PTT in Discord, but on a key that I know games will never use. I'll elaborate.
I have a Logitech G502 mouse that comes with software lets me rebind the functions of the side buttons. I've assigned the big side button to the "Stop" function, as in the same stop effect you'd get from using media keys like these:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/194/0826899b-dc09-41c0-b249-e5231ea01438/e61gP.jpg
Then afterwards, I just set Discord to use that side mouse button to be the PTT key. Voilà, now you've got a dedicated PTT key for Discord that games will never share a bind with.
Also since it's on the mouse, it doesn't force you to move your finger away from another key to talk while playing. The downside is that if you actually have media running (a video/music player), this will mess with that. To get around that, you could instead bind it to something like INSERT, but some games do use those keys.
Why not just directly bind the push to talk from discord to "Mouse 4" or "Mouse 5" buttons? Thats what I do for games and mumble.
Next page button being for in game voice and back ppt for mumble.
That's also a good option, but it caused me to go back and forth pages in Firefox. If that's not an issue, then it's definitely simpler and works with any mouse with side buttons.
Somewhere I read a great way around that, to use F13-F24 keys. You can enter them with Shift+F1/F12 iirc.
Simply program one of your mouse buttons to be F13, something that nothing uses.
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