Audio settings

The Settings tab in the secondary menu allows you to make various changes to your audio settings. Select your preferred microphone, speaker or headset, and enable echo and noice cancellation. Advanced settings include additional features such as Push-to-talk and microphone optimization.

• Headset
• Microphone
• Speaker
• Echo cancellation
• Noise cancellation
• Advanced settings
  • Noise suppression
  • Microphone optimization
  • Signal processing
  • Turn on microphone on join
  • Enable Push-to-talk
  • Show speaker status
  • Treat current devices as a headset

Headset

Click on the Headset menu item to open a selection list of all connected devices. Select the preferred device.

Microphone

Click on the Microphone menu item to open a selection list of all connected microphones. Select the microphone you want to use.

Speaker

Click on the Speaker menu item. In the section list, you can choose the speaker you want to use. Additionally, you can adjust your speaker volume by moving the slider. Click on the Test speaker button to to test the functionality of your speaker.

Echo cancellation

If you are using a separate microphone and loudspeaker instead of a headset, we recommend that you enable Echo cancellation. This setting prevents audio being picked up from your speaker and retransmitted by your microphone.

Noise cancellation

Noise cancellation filters out unwanted background noise from microphone transmissions, improving your audio quality.

Advanced settings

Additional audio settings, such as Noise suppression or Microphone optimization, are available in the Advanced settings.

Noise suppression

Select the level of noise suppression to better filter background noises from your audio transmission.

Microphone optimization

We recommend the automatic Noise cancellation. If you want to optimize your microphone yourself, you can use our Microphone optimization. This feature allows you to adjust the input level at which the microphone picks up your voice.

• Speak in your microphone.
• Move the slider to adjust the microphone sensitivity. Make sure the indicator bar turns blue and moves beyond the slider to the right.
• When you are not speaking, the indicator bar should be orange or invisible. This means that your voice is not being transmitted.

Signal processing

The signal processing offers various additional settings to advance your audio quality. These settings are automatically enabled.

Turn on microphone on join

When you enable this feature, your microphone is automatically turned on before joining an alfaview room. You can deactivate your microphone at all times in the quick settings before joining a room.

Enable Push-to-talk

The Push-to-talk feature allows you to activate the microphone manually by pressing a button. With this feature, your microphone only transmits sound when you press the CTRL key.

• Activate the push-to-talk feature by ticking the box.
• The Microphone icon in the main menu is now displayed in orange and crossed out.
• To speak, press and hold the CTRL key on your keyboard.
• Release the CTRL key as soon as you have finished speaking.

Show speaker status

When you activate the speaker status, a small speaker icon appears in the status menu in the bottom left corner of your alfaview room. You can mute alfaview by clicking the icon. If the icon is displayed in orange and crossed out, alfaview is muted.

Treat current devices as a headset

When this feature is enabled, headset-specific optimizations are applied to the currently selected microphones and speaker devices.