Creating a Global Voice Chat (No Spatial) for all players

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  1. Create a global voice chat (no spatial) using the new audio API, utilizing a wire + input/output

  2. I cannot hear other people’s voice chat audio. My guess is the input is being replayed to the output. Which isn’t the same output as X player. I’m not sure.

  3. I’ve tried using the new audio documentation and changing the “Radio” script found in the development game. I can’t figure out how to set this up correctly (I made a few adjustments to a radio script).

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local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function connect(src: Instance, dst: Instance)
	local wire = Instance.new("Wire", dst)
	wire.SourceInstance = src
	wire.TargetInstance = dst
end

local function onPlayerAdded(player: Player)
	local input = Instance.new("AudioDeviceInput", player)
	input.Player = player

	local output = Instance.new("AudioDeviceOutput", player)
	output.Player = player

	connect(input, output)
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
for _, player in players:GetPlayers() do
	onPlayerAdded(player)
end
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did you ever get this working?

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Hey @Distantlyz – assuming you’ve got VoiceChatService.UseAudioApi set to Enabled, this script is super close, I think there’s just one line preventing this from working as intended

In this section,

	local input = Instance.new("AudioDeviceInput", player)
	input.Player = player -- sets which player provides the input

	local output = Instance.new("AudioDeviceOutput", player)
	output.Player = player -- sets which player receives the output

assigning output.Player restricts who can hear it! So this script creates an AudioDeviceInput and AudioDeviceOutput for each player when they join, but each player can only hear themselves.

It would probably work just by removing this line:

	output.Player = player

But better yet, instead of creating an AudioDeviceOutput per-person, you could create one shared AudioDeviceOutput that everyone can hear, and everyone’s AudioDeviceInput connects to; e.x.

local output = Instance.new("AudioDeviceOutput")
output.Parent = workspace -- this can really go anywhere

local players = game:GetService("Players")

local function connect(src: Instance, dst: Instance)
	local wire = Instance.new("Wire", dst)
	wire.SourceInstance = src
	wire.TargetInstance = dst
end

local function onPlayerAdded(player: Player)
	local input = Instance.new("AudioDeviceInput", player)
	input.Player = player
	connect(input, output)
end

players.PlayerAdded:Connect(onPlayerAdded)
for _, player in players:GetPlayers() do
	onPlayerAdded(player)
end
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Also, you may want to add a local script that does something like

local me = game:GetService("Players").LocalPlayer
local myInput = me:FindFirstChildWhichIsA("AudioDeviceInput")

myInput.Volume = 0
-- and/or:
for _, wire in myInput:GetConnectedWires("Output") do
    wire:Destroy()
end

so that you don’t hear yourself in the global chat :sweat_smile:

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