Automatic selection of audio device?
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enhancement
feature: call 📹
feature: frontend 🖌️
feature: settings ⚙️
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Description
In the planing meeting the question/idea came up if it would be possible to "magically" pick the right audio device.
Suggested idea was something like:
- Have a button "Select device" (or even do that automatically)
- When the user presses the label changes to "Please speak now" for some seconds
- Afterwards show/suggest a device which had input recognized
We recognize input when the speaking happens during a call, so should be possible to do this too?
If no input is recognized we can show some hints for the user:
- Please make sure your device is connected
- Check for a hardware switch
- ...
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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by examining the existing call audio-input recognition flow and device selection behavior; the work is done when a user can trigger or automatically run a short speaking check, receive a suggested device when input is detected, and see helpful connection or hardware guidance when it is not.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- audio-video-rtc
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100