TeamTalk v5.7.1 released

May 9, 2021 Bjørn Damstedt Rasmussen News 10

TeamTalk v5.7.1 is now available for download. Again there is a long list of changes which are summarized in the end of this article.

Users of the TeamTalk Classic Client for Accessibility are encouraged to try out the “default TeamTalk Client” which now comes with text-to-speech events and many other accessibility improvements.

The TeamTalk developers are trying to make the “default TeamTalk Client” as accessible as the Classic client. Therefore please give feedback on this post if there’s some accessibility needs that are missing in the “default TeamTalk Client” compared to the Classic Client.

New Features and Bug Fixes

There’s a long list of changes in this release and again many thanks to Corentin Bacqué-Cazenave (a.k.a. Oreonan) for his contributions.

  • Accessible Windows Client
    • Fixed echo canceller being less effective over long duration
    • Recording to single file now applies user specific volume settings
    • Status event on channel join is no longer displayed twice
    • Added Ukrainian language
    • “On”/”Off” instead of “0”/”1″ when subscription changes
    • Alert when intercepted from another channel
    • Fixed tt:// URL decoding for percent (%) characters
    • Change default sound events playback mode to “one by one”
    • Decrease server lost sound volume
    • Don’t join previous joined channel if connection is dropped when not in a channel
  • Default QT Client
    • Text-to-Speech events now configurable in preferences (macOS, Linux and Windows)
    • Fixed echo canceller being less effective over long duration
    • Recording to single file now applies user specific volume settings
    • Status event when leaving channel
    • Status event on channel join is no longer displayed twice
    • Improve status event on channel joined
    • “Import .tt file” button in servers list
    • Corrected labels in Media Streaming dialog (CTRL+S dialog)
    • Better accessibility in several dialogs
    • Confirmation before removing an user account
    • Fixed tt:// URL decoding for percent (%) characters
    • Alert when intercepted from another channel
    • Decrease server lost sound volume
    • Default file name when generating a .tt file
  • Android Client
    • Fixed tt:// URLs not loading in running TeamTalk instance
    • Fixed missing “encrypted”, “channel” and “chanpasswd” in tt:// URLs
    • Accessibility hint for away status
    • Decrease server lost sound volume
    • Sound event for playing user logged in/off sound
  • iOS Client
    • Fixed tt:// URL decoding for percent (%) characters
    • Decrease server lost sound volume
    • Name of sender shown in text messages
    • Number of users in channel is now sum of subchannel users as well
    • Sound event for playing user logged in/off sound
  • Server
    • Using BearWare.dk WebLogin requires initial authentication in Pro-edition
    • New sub-channels can be joined initially with user-right “Create/modify all channels”

10 Comments

  2. Hello, I’ve found a bug with the Mac client. Text-to-speech does not respect the speech rate setting. I can confirm that this works correctly on Windows with SAPI. Not sure on Linux.

  3. I have just updated TeamTalk to version 5.7.1 and I am getting no indecation if a channel is expanded or collapsed when going through the tree view on the default QT client, using Windows 10 with the JAWS® for Windows screen reading software. I am also noticing that the status of checkboxes for TTS events aren’t being read. I think the classic and default clients should have been merged as one without the need of making 2 different clients with different accessibility levels, this would have brought the programming language of both versions into one single program and the classic code could have been instantly imported.

    • Hi and thank pfor your feedback,
      for text to speech checkboxes, your screenreader should says “enable” or “disable”, it’s working with NVDA, unfortunately I don’t thinked to test with JAWS, I’ll install a JAWS to test with this.
      For channels in tree, we’ll see if you can return state “expand” or “colaps”.

  5. Hey there. Unfortunately the latest team talk version cannot be downloaded for android from the play store, instead, version 5.6.1 is being downloaded and it seems that the latest version is available for beta users. I’m not comfortable with beta versions, on the other hand, nothing happens even after an hour when attempting to join the beta program, and the apk file isn’t available to download. May I know when the latest version will be finalised for non-beta users?

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