AutoPTT

Focus on what matters

AutoPTT makes communicating as easy as possible, minimizing the impact on your game.

Maintain awareness

AutoPTT tells you when your mic is hot, and also when it's not.

For a visual notification, use the Overlay, and for an audible one, use a sound effect.

Keep consistent

Set up your mic once in AutoPTT, and use the same settings everywhere.

Forget endless fiddling with the audio settings in each individual game or app.

Unlock new possibilities

For example, AutoPTT makes the following possible

Discord Priority Speaker with Voice Activation (guide)
Valorant Team Chat with Voice Activation
Push-to-Mute in Fortnite (guide)
Marvel Rivals with consistently working Push-to-Talk (guide)
Soundboard apps like Voicemod with Push-to-Talk (guide)
Push-to-Talk on a game controller (guide)
Toggle Mute using Push-to-Talk or Open Mic (guide)
Push-to-Mute using Push-to-Talk or Open Mic (guide)
Push-to-Talk, Push-to-Mute and Toggle Mute in meeting apps like Microsoft Teams even if the window is in the background (guide)

Overlay

The Overlay shows the status of your mic, so you can make sure it's only active when it's supposed to be.

By default, it's in the top left corner of your screen, but you can move it around as you like.

Activation Modes

Your mic can be controlled automatically, or with a little help from you.

Voice Activity

AutoPTT will both press and release the Push-to-Talk key for you.

Tap

You start speaking by pressing the Push-to-Talk key but you can release the key immediately after; AutoPTT will keep Push-to-Talk active until you stop speaking.

Manual

You press and release the Push-to-Talk key.

Multiple keys can be used to trigger PTT through Secondary PTT keys.

Open Mic to PTT (Tap)

Similar to Tap, you press PTT to start talking, which unmutes your mic. It will stay unmuted as long as you talk, even if you release the PTT key immediately.

Open Mic to PTT (Manual)

AutoPTT unmutes your mic when you press PTT and mutes it when you release PTT.

You can also make use of the following

Toggle Mute

Using a hotkey, switch between Voice Activity and Manual, effectively giving you a Toggle Mute using PTT.

You can also get a Toggle Mute using Open Mic by switching between Open Mic to PTT (Manual) and Manual. (guide)

Push-to-Mute

Press and hold a key to mute the mic. In Voice Activity and Tap modes, the PTT key is simply released, while in the Open Mic to PTT modes, the mic is muted system-wide.

Push-to-Mute (Global)

Press and hold a key to mute the mic system-wide regardless of the current Activation Mode, while also releasing the PTT key.

Hotkeys

You can use hotkeys to change your setup on the fly.

Push-to-Mute
Push-to-Mute (Global)
Change to another Activation Mode
Cycle between Activation Modes

All hotkeys also support game controllers.

Detailed Settings

Settings missing from most games and apps are available in AutoPTT, and through AutoPTT, usable in all of them.

Activation Threshold

The sound level that needs to be passed before activating the mic.

Elsewhere, this might be referred to as the Sensitivity.

Deactivation Threshold

AKA Hold Threshold.

When the mic is already active, it is kept active as long as the sound level is above either the activation or deactivation thresholds.

This is useful if you have a tendency to start talking loudly and then trail off...

Release Delay

The mic is kept active for a time even after the sound level drops below the activation and deactivation thresholds.

This time period is reset every time the sound level goes back over either threshold.

Activation Window

Additionally, with the Tap modes, you can also make use of the Activation Window, which is the time that you have from releasing the PTT key to the mic becoming inactive without the sound level going over the activation threshold.

Basically, this is like Release Delay but for before you start speaking.

Sound Effects

You can assign sound effects to most events, such as when your mic is activated or deactivated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is this different from free utilities that do the same thing?

There are no free utlities that do everything AutoPTT does.

Sure, if all you need is a system-wide Push-to-Mute or a Toggle Mute, you might be able to use a free utility for that. But these free utilities are not capable of turning PTT back into Voice Activation, nor do they have features like the Tap activation mode, Activation Window, Release Delay, Deactivation Threshold, or an ability to bind PTT on a game controller, for example.

How is this useful for Discord or Teamspeak?

Unless you want to use activation modes other than PTT where only PTT is allowed (eg. with Priority Speaker, or in channels with forced PTT), AutoPTT probably isn't that useful for you. It's mainly meant for ingame voice chat, which often lacks features.

Can I get banned for using it?

No. Plenty of software listens for (and generates) input events. For example, if you have a gaming mouse and you remap a button to a keyboard key, it's likely done the same way AutoPTT does.

Is it free?

No but you can try it out for free. Just sign up for a license, cancel it within a month, and you won't have to pay anything.

The app can also be run without a license but it needs to be restarted every 5 minutes. That should be good enough for testing purposes but somewhat problematic for continued use.

So get a license. You'll have one month to decide whether you want to keep it!

How much does it cost then?

There are multiple available options.

Can I get a discount?

If you're buying multiple licenses, sure. Get in touch.

What OS is it for?

Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11.

Your mic, your rules