New Accessible TeamTalk Client for Mac – Looking for Beta Testers

Hi everyone,

The in-app updater has been quietly doing its job since 1.9.0 in July, and four versions have gone by without a word here — 1.10, 1.11, 1.11.1 and now 1.12.0. Enough has changed that it deserves a proper round-up.

The connected window has been rebuilt

The window is now two panes instead of one tall column. The server name, its status lines, the microphone button and the channel tree sit in a sidebar; the mixer, chat, message box and history fill the rest. The reading order has not changed — VoiceOver walks exactly the same sequence as before. The one new thing you will meet is the divider between the panes, which you can drag and which is remembered.

Every global volume now lives at the head of the mixer, on a strip called General — output, media, microphone and sound effects. Command+5 lands you there. Left and Right choose which level the arrows act on, Up and Down move it by 1%, Page Up and Page Down by 10%, Home and End take it straight to 100% or 0%. V speaks the level, V twice resets it, M mutes everything. The four sliders that used to sit in the window are gone: those levels now exist in one place instead of two. The same keys work on every person's strip. Home, End and the page keys were asked for by Matthew Whitaker.

One level for every media stream at once. When someone streams music into a channel while people are talking, Command+Shift+Up and Down turns the music down on its own, from anywhere in the window, without touching a single voice. Suggested by Yannick.

A complete user guide

Command+? opens a full guide in the macOS help viewer — 18 topics, in English and French. The first launch, adding a server, moving around, channels, talking, messages, the mixer, audio setup, recording, streaming, administration, every preference pane, the complete shortcut list, and what to do when something doesn't work. Written to be followed rather than read: each topic starts with what you can do, then numbered steps naming the exact menu and button.

Global shortcuts no longer fight the app you are in

A microphone shortcut used from another app no longer needs the Input Monitoring permission, and the key you press is now truly taken — it used to both toggle the microphone and type its character into whatever you were working in. A shortcut that would type is refused while you record it, with the alternatives spoken out: F13 to F20, or add Command, Control or Option.

Streaming

You can now stream several applications at once, VoiceOver among them, or all the audio from your Mac in a single tick. A live source mutes instead of pausing, so the broadcast stays up and goes silent. The address of a stream you have already played is offered back to you — press Return to start it again. Your voice is still delayed to match the stream, so listeners hear both together.

The microphone, and channels that carry no voice

• A microphone that stops being transmitted now restarts itself, and says so. It could previously stay mute for hours without a single sign.
• A reconnect no longer swallows the microphone you had open.
• A channel that carries no voice now says so, instead of opening a mic into nothing.
• New: you can now choose to always arrive with the microphone off, in Preferences > Connection. Off by default, so nothing changes unless you want it. Asked for by Clément.

Turkish, and a language fallback that was wrong

The app is now fully localised in Turkish — all 1,200 strings, including every announcement. Requested by Serkan Türkyılmaz, who also uncovered something worse: the app declared French as its fallback language, so anyone whose Mac was set to a language I do not ship — Turkish, German, Spanish — got a French app, and the Language preference could not fix the menus macOS draws itself. The fallback is now English. I have replied to Serkan in a separate comment, because the Turkish still needs a native speaker's eyes.

Also

• Show people by nickname, by username, or by both (Preferences > General), everywhere someone is named. Asked for by Clément.
• Ban and kick now follow the server's rights, not just the admin flag, so a moderator with the right but without the flag can finally use them.
• A refused action shows you the reason instead of quitting the app — a crash present in every release since 1.10.0, found by Ron J., who narrowed it down to one channel.
• macOS 12: the app menu keeps Quit, Services, Hide, Hide Others and Show All, and the Edit menu is built. All of it reported, and patiently re-tested, by Ron J.
• French units and the French colon are no longer served to English-speaking users.

Download

tt-Accessible updates itself — accept the prompt, or use ttaccessible > Check for Updates… To install by hand:

Download ttaccessible-1.12.0-56.zip (release page)

Signed and notarized, so no Gatekeeper warning.

Thank you

Rocco Fiorentino remains by far the largest outside contributor — the rebuilt audio engine and the per-user mixer are his. Thanks also to Ron J., who tests on the only macOS 12 machine I know of and keeps finding what nobody else can, and to everyone who reported, asked and argued in this thread. Keep it coming.

Mathieu

Hi Serkan,

Both halves of your report are answered in 1.12.0, which is out now — as a stable release, not a beta, so it reaches you through the ordinary updater.

Turkish

The app is now fully localised in Turkish — all 1,200 strings, including every VoiceOver announcement, not just the menus. You will find Türkçe under Preferences > General > Language, and if your Mac is set to Turkish the app now picks it up on its own.

One thing I want to be straight with you about: I do not speak Turkish. The translation was built against a glossary written to keep apart the words you hear all day — Sustur for muting a person against Sesi Kapat for the master output, Sil for deleting something on the server against Kaldır for forgetting a saved server, Kazanç for microphone gain against Ses düzeyi for volume — and every string was then read a second time by someone other than its author. But no native speaker has seen it yet, and you are the first person who is going to hear it.

So if something sounds wrong, or is simply wrong, tell me — here, or through Help > Contact the Developer, which sends it straight to me. A list of "this line should say X" is exactly what I need, and I will ship the corrections quickly.

The French menus

You were right that something was broken, but it was not the English translation — that one is complete, both catalogues carry the same 1,200 keys. The app itself declared French as its fallback language.

macOS decides which language an app runs in by matching your preferred languages against the ones the app ships. Turkish was not among them, so nothing matched, and it fell back to what the app declared — French. That fallback also governs the menus macOS draws itself, which is why Services, Hide and the rest stayed French whatever you picked inside the app: the Language preference only ever repainted my own strings.

The fallback is now English. Even before Turkish existed you would have got an English app, and the same is now true for every language I do not ship.

Getting it

tt-Accessible will offer you the update by itself, or use ttaccessible > Check for Updates… To install by hand:

Download ttaccessible-1.12.0-56.zip (release page)

Thanks for writing in — it turned out to be two separate bugs, and the second one was hurting every user whose language I have never shipped.

Mathieu