While on TeamSpeak, me and Dan thought that there must be a way to have a better quality conversation, but still retain an essential feature with TeamSpeak…the Push-To-Talk. Always with multiple people, a phone rings or a relative shouts and this all gets captured through skype as the call is constantly running, and the user forgets to turn off his microphone.

Fortunately, a user with the same aim has come up with a brilliant tool called Skype PTT:

Although the client is in beta 1, it works brilliantly on Windows 7 x64 and the latest version of Skype 4.1.0.179.

As you can see from the screenshot, I have set F2 to speak, and I can simply minimize the client and continue work knowing I can speak to the recipient whenever needed. This eliminates the need to pay for a TeamSpeak server, and you can enjoy the free conversations from your mobile device as well.

Check it out: Skype PTT

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