Can't hear each other in Steam Voice Chat

[PataPata]

Hi, my friends and I have problem with steam voice chat.
We can't hear each other.

After we successfully start a voice chat, I can confirm that the green voice meter bar next to my avatar moves as I speak, but my friend can't hear me, and they don't see my voice meter bar moving as well.
And the same issue occurs when they talk.
They said their voice meter bar was moving but I didn't see that and I can't hear them, too.

We are all sure that our devices or the settings of steam and OS(Windows 10) are are properly set.
Because we all tested our mics with steam's latest client and with steam's own test function and they are all working right, at least in our own end separately.
Besides, the voice chat of Battle.Net, Discord, or Origin work properly without any other configurations.
So that's why I doubt this problem is with steam itself.

For more information, I found some other threads talking about this issue too, but without any useful suggestion yet.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3356799628312204562/
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/7/1644304412669105831/

Could someone provide any suggestion for us or has it been a known issue already?
Thanks.

[Caught you in 4k]

I have the same problem, the exact same problem. The green voice meter bar next to my avatar moves as I speak, but my friend can't hear me, and they said that they can't see it moving on their computer though.

At first, I encountered this problem in Dota 2 and I thought its Dota 2 that have the problem, but it seems that it came from Steam Voice services.

I have no idea how to solve it either, tried everything that automated steam support reply suggested but nothing helps: Turn off firewall, forward port 27015, check my hardware,...

The thing is that this happens suspiciously close to the new Steam Library update.

HALP, SOMEONE

Edit: My problem kinda solved itself, and I think it's related to underwater internet cables. When that thing got fixed, my steam voice thing got fixed too

[Kaulis]

Same here , probably steam sleeps and cant fix that

[Byte]

I have the same problem. My 2 friends can hear each other fine, but can't hear me, nor I them.
Audio devices are chosen correctly, and I can hear my voice in the microphone test.
I've looked through voice chat logs, and all of them show "Transport Bytes Received: 0", so it must be a networking problem. But a have a standardly configured router, and never had any problems with other voice chats, like Discord or TeamSpeak.

[Silverkite]

did voice chat ever worked? I remember 11 years ago while playing L4D the first thing I disabled was voice chat cause it was crap, possibly it worked a tad better on Red Orchestra but once you had high pingers or spikes it was as useless

[lodin]

Did you solve it somehow? I have the same problem, i.e. my friends can talk to each other but I cannot hear them nor they can hear me. The microphone test is OK in steam. Also, I can talk perfectly on Discord. Correct devices are selected in the Steam's settings.

[DerOmaSchubser]

Same problem, please help.

[Aic]

Me and my Friend have been using the Steam Voice char exclusively the last couple of years. We're are experiencing the precis same problem and it started after the last Steam update 3-4 days ago (which brought some chat updates among other things)
Voice chat still work in Discord or Skype etc, and the self tests works in steam, just no transmission to the other part.

[BuraczeK]

:) :) :)

[Dr. Beaver]

sameee please help

[Dr. Beaver]

did anyone solve IT??

[DerOmaSchubser]

nope

[Dr. Beaver]

Originally posted by DerOmaSchubser:

nope

i dont know what to do did u tried to reinstall steam?

[DerOmaSchubser]

don't I have to reinstall all games again?
cuz then i'll wait for steam updates and use teamspeak as long.

[Dr. Beaver]

Originally posted by DerOmaSchubser:

don't I have to reinstall all games again?
cuz then i'll wait for steam updates and use teamspeak as long.

yea but u can do a backup or something
and just restore the games
without downloading them

[DerOmaSchubser]

Originally posted by BigBlackGlock:

Originally posted by DerOmaSchubser:

don't I have to reinstall all games again?
cuz then i'll wait for steam updates and use teamspeak as long.

yea but u can do a backup or something
and just restore the games
without downloading them

Steam has copy protection. When I got a new pc and I wanted to do what you said it didint worked.