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How to use SignalWire Work as a User
Complete User Guide
Welcome to SignalWire! We’re excited to have you onboard. This is a quick reference guide with instructions on how to use SignalWire. Note: If you are a moderator or a Room Manager you will have additional controls than mentioned in this guide. Section 1: How to get started Section 2: All things room Section 3: In-room features Section 4: Advanced in-room features Section 5: Get help Section 1: How to get started Refer to this section if you need help signing in and/or joining
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SignalWire Work User Guide
Welcome to SignalWire Work, designed for this modern era of remote work and collaboration at distance. As with other familiar collaboration tools, SignalWire Work provides video conferencing, audio conferencing, screen sharing, and text chat. However, unlike other conferencing systems, SignalWire Work features innovative capabilities around remote work, virtual office, and even podcasting. With SignalWire Work, there is no separate client software to install, and you can work from any desktop,
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Potential networking issue - prioritizing audio over video
When SignalWire detects a temporary degradation in network quality it will prioritize audio over video to ensure that you remain connected and can continue communicating. What causes a temporary degradation in network quality? Any number of issues can result in temporary degradation in network quality. Some of these issues are Lowered Quality of Service from your network provider Most network providers connect to the nearest Internet Point of Presence via shared optical and/or copper li
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Using Push to Talk
In a SignalWire meeting, a participant may be attending from a noisy environment and will have to constantly mute and unmute themselves to avoid disturbing the other participants. To avoid constantly muting and unmuting, the Push to Talk feature can be used instead. To enable Push to Talk while in a Room, navigate to the Main Menu and select the arrow (triangle) next to Mute. In the menu that appears, Enable Push to Talk by toggling the option to On  drop-down menu for Stop Video 
With the advent of modern collaboration applications, such as G Suite and Microsoft 365, multiple people often simultaneously review and edit documents in real-time. For a better conferencing experience in these situations, you can“float” a smaller version of the SignalWire window on your desktop, enabling you to maintain face-to-face contact with your collaborators while immersed in G Suite or Office 365 editing sessions. This feature is called "Picture in Picture" in SignalWire. To turn on P
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How to leave a conference
To leave a conference, click on LEAVE ROOM on the Main menu.
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Closed Captioning
SignalWire doesn't currently have a feature for closed captioning or subtitles with conferences. However, if using SignalWire on the Chrome browser or viewing a SignalWire stream via YouTube, you can make use of their closed captioning features. Google Chrome The Google Chrome browser Google Chrome has a Live Caption feature that can be enable through a few extra steps.
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