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Sadly no. It would be either impossible or violate scratch’s cloud chat rules.

scratchykit5743 wrote:

Sadly no. It would be either impossible or violate scratch’s cloud chat rules.

well i think it is possible, someone did it along time ago but it broke do to old age, so yep you cant

Not at all. The only possible part is transmission of sound data (and even that's limited). You have no way to input sound correctly (the loudness block is all you have and that's not good enough - it needs to be much higher frequency than 30 FPS). There is also no way to play back recorded sounds based on waveform data.

You could kind-of do it with text and use the text to speech extension to output it as sound, but that's really all you get (and keep in mind that this is likely not going to be allowed due to the cloud chat ban).

Technically, a little bit:

set [☁ loudness v] to (loudness::sensing)

but is incredibly limited.

awesome-llama wrote:

The only possible part is transmission of sound data (and even that's limited).

It might be possible to play black (low quality) sound by repeatedly changing the volume and pitch inside a run without screen refresh block if the set sound effect block didn't yield.

Voice chat on Scratch is completely impossible. Even text chat is barely possible, and even if it was possible, I would strongly advise you to not put it on Scratch since all it takes is one weirdo to get onto this voice chat and Scratch’s reputation for being a “Safe haven for children’s safety” is ruined.

Short answer is: It’s not possible, and if it was possible then it could get you banned from Scratch if you make it.

This is strictly theoretical; I am only saying this as a thought. As people have said above, it's not allowed.

You don't have to have to transfer sound files. You could just have the text-to-speech extension read decompressed words. The problem is input. Scratch does not provide the functions needed to read vocal input.

TheAnomalousPseudo wrote:

This is strictly theoretical; I am only saying this as a thought. As people have said above, it's not allowed.

You don't have to have to transfer sound files. You could just have the text-to-speech extension read decompressed words. The problem is input. Scratch does not provide the functions needed to read vocal input.

That certainly would be possible by just using the ask block.

The_Imaginarium wrote:

TheAnomalousPseudo wrote:

This is strictly theoretical; I am only saying this as a thought. As people have said above, it's not allowed.

You don't have to have to transfer sound files. You could just have the text-to-speech extension read decompressed words. The problem is input. Scratch does not provide the functions needed to read vocal input.

That certainly would be possible by just using the ask block.

But they want a voice chat; they want the input to be vocal.

It's not allowed, but cloud text chat IS ALLOWED. Unfortunately both will get you banned.

-Kryptonite- wrote:

It's not allowed, but cloud text chat IS ALLOWED. Unfortunately both will get you banned.

1. Possible ≠ Allowed
2. Text Chat is allowed as long as it's only predefined phrases.

what if we just use premade phrases and the text-to-speech option

i did think this was theoretical, and it seems like there is no way.

thanks for answering this!

I don't think it would be allowed, the only way to chat on scratch is using the discussion forums, because the scratch team can watch over that. Bye!

legobuilder000 wrote:

I don't think it would be allowed, the only way to chat on scratch is using the discussion forums, because the scratch team can watch over that. Bye!

They can also chat using profile, studio, and project comments.

No, but theoretically you could have someone speak morse code (the sender can make loud noise to represent a dot/dash), then it'll be beeped to someone else, but it's not very convenient.