Nowadays, it’s almost impossible to count all the means of digital communication. Text chats, emojis, video calling apps, voice messaging, voice calls, and all have their own pros and cons. For example, text barely transmits the right tone of voice and doesn’t reflect facial expression at all, so the person on the other end can easily misunderstand the message. Video calls do way better, but some people are camera-shy and not always able to turn on the camera. It seems that the perfect solution is to create a voice chat app, especially taking into account their recent popularity. Well, here is our guide on how to build a voice chat app that will rock the stage.
What are the most popular voice chat apps?
The year 2020 substantially sped up the global process of communication going online. A lot of companies switched to working remotely, either partially or entirely, so the demand for online chat apps has naturally grown. Sure, so did the supply: a lot of text, voice, and video solutions appeared on the market.
Since online voice communication covers all issues that text and video have, this type of app seems to win the audience’s attention. Let us show you the examples of the most successful projects already trusted by users and have quite positive feedback.
Clubhouse
Clubhouse is a drop-in voice-only app whose main purpose is to gather people for discussing different topics and talking to each other. It’s possible to organize communities (clubs) where people can find associates and share their thoughts. All discussions happen live in dedicated online rooms, and users can either be just listeners or actively participate in the dialog in the roles of a speaker or a moderator.
Discord
At its very beginning, Discord was designed by game development studio Hammer & Chisel for gamers. A lot of video games struggle with built-in group voice communication, so Discord as an external solution quickly gained recognition in the gaming community. Positive feedback and substantial functionality made Discord one of the most popular voice-chat apps, not only among gamers but among the general audience too.
Must-have features of a voice chat application
Voice communication is becoming more and more popular among users, so if you consider building a voice chat app, you may not be wrong. The question is: what functions can you include in your future solution that will make it appealing to your audience? Here is our shortlist of the most vital voice-based app functionality based on Discord.
Servers and/or channels
Servers and channels are places where you can chat with the community. They can be dedicated to all possible topics, from a school project to workflow organization. Discord has limits for both the number of channels, which are a kind of subgroups for servers, and participants on a server: 500 and 5000 accordingly.
Roles and permissions management
As we mentioned above, admins can assign various roles to the server and channel members. Each channel can have different permission settings, and each user can have different roles in different channels.
Chats
Even though the primary focus of Discord is voice communication, text messaging is not excluded from the app’s functionality. Also, besides voice and text communication, you can easily make a video call both in channels and in private chats. Some channels are dedicated only to voice and video chatting without any text messages, so users can just join them and start talking. This communication is built with an open-source project, WebRTC, which helps reach the highest possible quality of audio and video.
Read more: https://yellow.systems/blog/voice-chat-app-development
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