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Call Controls & Features

Once you’re in a call, there are a bunch of controls to manage your experience. Here’s what they all do.

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The Call Overlay

When you’re in a call, a floating overlay shows your call view, participant tiles, your own feed, and control buttons. You can minimize this overlay to a small bar and browse Tavrn freely while staying in the call. The Active Call Bar at the bottom of the screen gives you quick access to the most important controls without opening the full overlay.

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Core Controls

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🎙️ Mute / Unmute

Toggles your microphone on or off.
  • Muted, Others can’t hear you. You can still hear them.
  • Unmuted, You’re live.
Your mute status is visible to other call participants, they’ll see a mute indicator on your tile when you’re muted.
Get in the habit of muting when you’re not speaking, especially in group calls. Background noise from one person can be distracting for everyone.

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🔇 Deafen

Deafening mutes your incoming audio, you can’t hear anything, and you’re also automatically muted (can’t send audio either). Use deafen when:
  • You need to step away from your desk for a minute but want to stay in the channel
  • You’re in a loud environment and need to focus
  • You want to be “present” in a channel without actively listening
Deafen is distinct from mute. Mute = others can’t hear you. Deafen = you can’t hear others (and you’re also muted). Both statuses are visible to other participants.

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✋ Raise Hand

In group calls or room voice channels, you can raise your hand to signal that you want to speak without interrupting.
  • Click the ✋ hand icon to raise your hand
  • A hand indicator appears on your tile so others can see
  • The call organizer (or anyone) can call on you
  • Click again to lower your hand
This is especially useful in larger, more structured calls where turn-taking matters.

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📹 Camera Toggle

Enable or disable your video camera. See Video Calls for more.

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🖥️ Screen Share

Start or stop sharing your screen. See Screen Sharing for more.

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🔴 Hang Up / Leave

In a DM call: Ends the call for both parties.
In a room voice channel: Disconnects you from the channel. Others remain.

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Active Speaker Detection

Tavrn automatically detects who’s speaking and visually highlights the active speaker’s tile. In larger calls, the active speaker may get a larger or more prominent tile position. This helps you visually track who’s talking in calls with many participants.

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Noise Suppression

Tavrn has built-in noise suppression that filters out background noise, keyboard clicks, ambient room noise, fans, and other sounds that might otherwise bleed into your microphone. This is enabled by default and works quietly in the background. See Noise Suppression for details on how it works and how to adjust it.

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Connection Status

If your connection to the call is having issues, you’ll see a connection indicator on your participant tile showing poor signal or reconnecting status. Tavrn will automatically attempt to reconnect if the connection drops briefly. If the connection is consistently poor, you might:
  • Switch from WiFi to wired
  • Move closer to your router
  • Check if other internet-heavy processes are running in the background

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Incoming Call Notifications

When someone calls you in a DM:
  • An audio notification plays
  • A toast notification pops up with the caller’s name and avatar
  • You can Accept or Decline directly from the notification
If you’re in another call already, you’ll still see the incoming call alert and can choose whether to switch.

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Call in the Background

You can navigate around Tavrn while in a call without disconnecting. Browse rooms, check DMs, look at profiles, the call continues in the background, accessible via the Active Call Bar at the bottom of your screen.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Room admins can mute specific members in a voice channel. Individual mute controls for all members are typically available from the members panel in the call.
No, when you mute someone on your end, it only affects your own audio. You stop hearing them, but others in the call still can. If an admin “room mutes” someone, that person’s audio is muted for everyone.
Per-user volume control isn’t currently available. System-level volume adjustments are your best bet for now.
You’ll be immediately disconnected from the call. Always use the hang-up button to leave gracefully rather than just closing the tab.