New Steam Voice Chat My Friends Can Hear Themselves

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ThatFemboySky Aug 14, 2018 @ 1:54am

New Steam Voice Chat My Friends Can Hear Themselves

Lately while I have been voice chatting with a friend while we play Terraria he has been having an issue where he hears himself in chat as well me. This didn't happen before the new update which added the new look and features for steam chat, I tried with another steam friend also and they also heard themself in the chat while speaking. I am wondering if anyone else has had this issue since the update also, it is likely just a bug which may be fixed in the future but just wanted to hear about other people's possible experience with this issue. I've noticed I can hear myself as well but it isn't very noticiable for me but my friend finds the issue less bearable. So please feel free to mention if you've had this issue and even list a fix if you have found one.

Last edited by ThatFemboySky; Aug 14, 2018 @ 1:56am

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ReBoot Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:06am

DISABLE echo cancelation. I found this helps.

ThatFemboySky Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:09am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
DISABLE echo cancelation. I found this helps.

Both of us disable it?

ReBoot Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:09am

The one causing the echo shall disable it.

ThatFemboySky Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:14am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
The one causing the echo shall disable it.

Okay, thanks for the reply, Will try this and let you know if it worked.

ThatFemboySky Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:28am

Originally posted by ReBoot:
The one causing the echo shall disable it.

Both tried disabling it and the issue still occoured apparently, but thanks for your suggestion anyway.

Jaunitta 🌸 Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:40am

How close is the mike to your speakers? or your mouth too close can effect sound quality volume etc.
Laptop or PC?
Headphones with mic? would stop that.
Have you ever run any voice tests to setup the voice chat?
Troubleshooting Microphone Problems
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1206-WUOH-3314

Last edited by Jaunitta 🌸; Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:42am

ThatFemboySky Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:48am

Originally posted by Jaunitta:
How close is the mike to your speakers?
Headphones on with mic? would stop that.
Have you ever run any voice tests to setup the voice chat?
Troubleshooting Microphone Problems
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1206-WUOH-3314

The speakers are turned off when I plug in my headset, I normally play with speaker sound but when I want to voice chat with headset I turn off the speaker volume and use the headphones and microphone. The microphone was set in the steam voice/microphone settings in the old version, You could set up/test the microphone volume but in the new version that is gone and only options for upping and lowering input and output gain.

Last edited by ThatFemboySky; Aug 14, 2018 @ 2:51am

AzKat 🐔 Aug 17, 2018 @ 4:13am

In case you haven't fixed it so far, you can try this :
- right click the speaker icon near the clock, click sounds, go to recording devices
- disabling the "stereo mix" from the "recording" tab in windows
- disabling the "realtek digital input" from the "playback" tab.

Moon Drop Sep 7, 2019 @ 9:22pm

I know this has been inactive for nearly a year, but I just started having this problem myself. I play on Windows and always have my headphones in when voice chatting because the audio straight out of my laptop's speakers always causes feedback. However, now there's feedback no matter what settings I have and, currently, not having headphones at all creates less feedback than when my headphones are plugged in. I've resorted to the push-to-talk function, but I'd rather not have to worry about that. Has a solution been figured out? I tried everything listed, yet there's still feedback.

The HopelessGamer™ Sep 7, 2019 @ 9:25pm

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:
Headphones with mic? would stop that.

Not always. It is quite common for headsets with mics to pass the mic audio through for some reason. Happens with Turtle beach headsets quite alot.

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Ocaña Feb 17, 2020 @ 7:26pm

This still happens to a friend of mine, actually I hear myself and it's really annoying. Anyone found a fix?

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The HopelessGamer™ Feb 17, 2020 @ 7:43pm

Originally posted by Ocaña:
This still happens to a friend of mine, actually I hear myself and it's really annoying. Anyone found a fix?

Its usually going to be the headset your using. Buy a new headset like plantronics or even better get some nice headphones and buy a antlion modmic.

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DexterMullen Oct 21, 2020 @ 4:24am

This happens to me on random lately with my friends when we chat only on steam.
Everybody uses a headset with mic (no speakers)
but there is an echo on random and it is pretty loud. Almost unusable chat.

Same gear for everybody we swap and chat not on steam but on discord, 0 problems...
This is a steam chat issue.

Any solutions, so I don't have to force every new steam friend to open a discord account...

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