If you want to be able to hear the sounds yourself as well, then you need to Edit > Advanced Audio Properties and set the “Audio Monitoring” for each of your sounds to “Monitor and Output”. What’s nice is that they are global hotkeys: as long as OBS is open and the soundboard scene is active, they will work: meaning you can be in Microsoft Teams on a call and they will still work OK. Now, when your soundboard scene is selected, those hotkeys will automatically play your audio files on demand. If it’s a really long wav file (like my lift music) then maybe also a hotkey to stop it as well: Place a hotkey against the “Restart” operation for each source. If you scroll to the bottom you’ll find entries for all your sources.

You set up hotkeys in Settings > Hotkeys. They’re actually just in the names that I’ve given to the sources, but they line up with the hotkeys I’ve set for them. What are all those numbers (I hear you ask). I wondered – could I use OBS to create a soundboard in Microsoft Teams meetings? Answer: YES! Now though, I think I have the answer! As I’ve blogged already I’m a growing fan of using OBS for a great presentation experience. I played around with a few ways of doing it in Skype for Business, but until now haven’t found a good way to do it with Microsoft Teams. Simple but very effective, and brought a new dimension to text-based chat.Įver since then, I’ve missed having sound effects in conversations, and I’ve always wanted to bring soundboard functionality to Skype for Business and then Microsoft Teams. This worked because everyone had the same set of wav files on their computer, and the plugin would look for specially crafted messages and invoke the audio on everyone’s client when it happened. One I particularly remember was a soundboard. mIRC had a superb plugin model and there was/is? a very vibrant community creating all sorts of things. Like many people I used mIRC and like many people it was heavily customised. I’m old, so I have fond memories of chatting in IRC.

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