Audio rooms

Every channel and every direct message has an audio room. It lives inside the channel: the conversation keeps going in text while people talk, and everything that happens in the room shows up on the same timeline.

Join and leaveCopy Anchor Link

1. Open the channel and choose Join audio at the top right.
2. Allow the microphone when the browser asks. You join with the microphone on and the camera off.
3. Choose Leave under the room, or Leave audio at the top, when you're done.

The first person to join opens the room; when the last person leaves, it closes. You can keep talking while you read other channels: a small bar at the bottom of the sidebar shows which room you're in, with Mute and Open. The Audio rooms list in the sidebar shows every room with people in it.

If you join the same room from a second tab, the first tab leaves the room.

Controls and shortcutsCopy Anchor Link

On a Mac, use ⌘ instead of Ctrl. The shortcuts work while the room's channel is open. Use the expand button at the top right of the room to make it fill the window, for example while someone shares a screen.

Voice, Camera and Screen switchesCopy Anchor Link

Each channel has three switches: Voice, Camera and Screen. All three start on. Change them in Channel settings → Voice, camera and screen (on wide screens they're also in the channel header).

• Anyone in the channel can change them. There's no special role for it.
• Every change shows on the timeline, for example "Maya turned off the camera in this channel", so nothing changes silently.
• Changes apply right away, also to people already in the room:

What shows on the timelineCopy Anchor Link

GuestsCopy Anchor Link

New in November 2026

To bring someone without a Fishcamp account into a call, such as a client, choose Meeting link at the top right of the channel and send them the link. They join this channel's audio room with just their name, while someone from your workspace is in it, and they never see the channel's messages.

Guests have a Guest label in the room and in the list of who's in audio. Anyone in the channel can take one out with the remove icon next to their name. When the last person from your workspace leaves, the meeting ends for the guests too. See Meeting links for guests.

Browser supportCopy Anchor Link

• To share sound, choose a tab (or your entire screen, where the browser offers it) and turn on audio sharing in the browser's picker.
• Sharing your screen needs a desktop browser. On a phone you can talk, use your camera and watch a shared screen.

TroubleshootingCopy Anchor Link

PrivacyCopy Anchor Link

Audio rooms aren't recorded. If the channel has transcription turned on, everyone in the room sees Transcribing, and only the text is kept: the audio is never stored.