Bad Echo

[Rv5]

i just downloaded teamspeak and have been using it with a buddy. its great, we both love it! one minor annoyance though that we cant figure out. we use voice activation, and about 2-3 seconds after we start speaking, we get an echo of what we just said. if i start talking for longer than those 2-3 seconds, i hear what i said 2 seconds after i said it, while im still trying to talk. after the first echo, we get a much quieter, but still noticeable second echo. anyway we can get rid of this?

thanks

[m&m's]

in you sound mixer propertys un check the "what you hear"
start / run type in ---- sndvol32.exe and you will see your mixer ... go the the options tab / propertys , recording , uncheck the what you hear save /exit test you may depending on whos causeing the echo send this info to your buddy to do on his pc..

[Rv5]

thanks for the reply. i guess im not seeing anything that is "what you hear" in the recording section i see just a bunch of volume bars, but nothing like you describe. am i missing something here?

[Judas]

This sounds like a "speakers picking up the voice" issue than some wrong settings.

I assume that neither of you is using a headset and the microphone is just placed somewhere on the table. When someone speaks to you, your microphone picks up everything coming out of your speakers (simple because the microphone is on a setting which is too sensible or placed to close to the speakers). This will sound like an echo to the initial speaker as you are transmitting what he just said over Teamspeak.
While I'm not absolutely sure that this really is your problem, you might both try to use headphones, move the microphone further away from the speakers, lower the output volume of your speakers, lower the sensitivity of your microphone or anything similar which could help in such a situation.
Obviously, the best way to use Teamspeak is by using a headset, but for other obvious reasons, not everyone is willing to buy one just for a little chat. By following the suggestions above you should be able to reduce to echos quite a lot and far below any level where it would become annoying.

If nothing should help and if you can't change your setup or change to a headseat, you might consider using "push to talk" which would definitely put an end to the echo as long as there is only 1 person trying to talk.

[Rv5]

funny thing is we both do use headsets. but we can try further tweaking the volume and sensitivity settings.

[Judas]

In that case, m&m's suggestions are the right ones.

For whatever reason, your soundcards have "anything" or "microphone & wave" or any other combination set as input source for recording. Hence what you would want to check is the sources selected for recording. Your goal would be to disable all input sources except the microphone which you are using for teamspeak. The sound control panel (recording settings) should be the place to look at.

Last but not least you might want to check whether you have more than 1 microphone (some webcams have built in microphones). Should you have more than 1, make sure that the correct one is selected in the TeamSpeak soundsettings.