How to: Discord Priority Speaker with Voice Activation

This is a short guide on how to use AutoPTT to get voice-activated priority speaker on Discord, which currently requires push-to-talk.

A few things to note, beforehand:

• Priority Speaker only works when INPUT MODE in Discord is set to Push-to-Talk.
• By default, only server admins are allowed to use Priority Speaker. So if you want to use it on a server you don’t own, you’ll need to ask an admin to grant you permission.
• If Discord is running as admin, AutoPTT also needs to be run as admin.

With that out of the way, we can start setting things up.

1. Open the Discord settings.
2. Under APP SETTINGS, click on Voice & Video.
3. Under INPUT MODE, make sure that Push-to-Talk is selected.
4. Under APP SETTINGS click on Keybinds.
5. At the top, click on Add a Keybind.
6. In the added row, set Action to Push-to-Talk (Priority) and then click on Record Keybind.
7. Press the key you want to use for priority speaker. This should be a key you normally don’t use for anything, like F12.
8. In AutoPTT, select your input device from the Device box.
9. Set Push-to-Talk (PTT) 1 to the key you used for Push-to-Talk (Priority) on Discord.
10. Set Activation Mode to Voice Activity.
11. Adjust Activation Threshold and Release Delay so that Current Value field changes to a green/yellow color when you speak. (When it’s green/yellow, it means your PTT key is being pressed.)

Here’s essentially the same thing in video format:

Give it a try!

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