Push To Talk - Google Meet Bookmarklet

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Short link to this page: http://caseywatts.com/ptt

Other gists & tricks: http://caseywatts.com/gists-and-tricks

Unrelated update: my book is out! Debugging Your Brain is an applied psychology / self-help book

Push To Talk in a Google Hangout (Meet)

1. Save this bookmarklet. Right-click on boomarks toolbar Add Page...
   • Name: PTT (push to talk) or whatever you'd like (maybe short so it stays on your bookmarks toolbar)
   • URL: (paste in the bookmarklet.js contents below)
2. In a Meet, click on the bookmarklet
3. Press and hold spacebar to talk. Keydown will un-mute you, and keyup will re-mute you.
4. 🎉

bookmarklet.js

javascript: (() => {
  const toggle = tip => ({ key }) =>
    key === ' ' && document.querySelectorAll('[data-tooltip]').forEach(el => el.dataset.tooltip === tip && el.click());
  document.body.onkeyup = toggle('Turn off microphone');
  document.body.onkeydown = toggle('Turn on microphone');
})(); // fixed by @sparksm 

old-broken-bookmarklet.js

javascript:(function(){
  document.body.onkeyup = function(e){
    if(e.keyCode == 32){
      document.querySelector('[data-tooltip="Turn off microphone"]').click(); // Meet
      // document.querySelector('[data-tooltip="Mute microphone"]').click(); // Hangouts, but it doesn't work
    }
  };
  document.body.onkeydown = function(e){
    if(e.keyCode == 32){
      document.querySelector('[data-tooltip="Turn on microphone"]').click(); // Meet
      // document.querySelector('[data-tooltip="Unmute microphone"]').click(); // Hangouts, but it doesn't work
    }
  };
})();

I was originally using the solution mentioned above. But as quarantine has become the norm for the most of us, I was determined to come up with a more global solution so I can unmute/mute despite what application context I have (a.k.a. A global 'soft' kill switch)

The directions and 'code' are available in this article I created ...

How In The Bleep Do I Mute My Mic Anywhere on macOS?
https://medium.com/@jesse.riddle/how-in-the-bleep-do-i-mute-my-mic-anywhere-on-macos-d2fa1185b13

@preston-hf

If you're on macOS, please see my comment above.

https://gist.github.com/caseywatts/561bc498b6feec3d419b29a65d916663#gistcomment-3241942

I've built an international solution that doesn't break any chat or other features. 🤞
https://github.com/MrTrick/greasemonkey-scripts/blob/master/Google%20Meet%20Hangouts%20-%20PTT.js
Hope it's helpful for someone.

This does not work

javascript: (() => {
  const toggle = tip => ({ key }) =>
    key === ' ' && document.querySelectorAll('[data-tooltip]').forEach(el => el.dataset.tooltip.includes(tip) && el.click());
  document.body.onkeyup = toggle('Turn off microphone');
  document.body.onkeydown = toggle('Turn on microphone');
})(); // fixed by @sparksm 

.includes means this works for all OSs :)

This works but chat is broken

@aminhusni mine worked fine for me this morning. :-)
Can you tell me more about what happens and/or paste in any errors that appear in the console?
(Feel free to create an issue https://github.com/MrTrick/greasemonkey-scripts/issues )

Current solution for Firefox:

javascript: (() => {
   const toggle = tip => ({ key }) =>
     key === ' ' && document.querySelectorAll('[data-tooltip]').forEach(el => el.dataset.tooltip === tip && el.click());
   document.body.onkeyup = toggle('Turn off microphone (⌘ + d)');
   document.body.onkeydown = toggle('Turn on microphone (⌘ + d)');
})();

This one seems to work for google meet, but the chat is broken. Does anybody have it fixed?

javascript: (() => {
const toggle = tip => ({ key }) =>
    key === ' ' && document.querySelectorAll('[aria-label]').forEach(el => el.dataset.tooltip === tip && el.click());
  document.body.onkeyup = toggle('Turn off microphone (ctrl + d)');
  document.body.onkeydown = toggle('Turn on microphone (ctrl + d)');
})();