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Have you heard anything about the new Zoom talkback feature in the API that allows you to have a comms solution?

ASKED BY · Unknown · 19 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:13:33

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John

The Zoom talkback is a last-mile comms solution; John has a standalone app called Zcoms that enables communication back to up to four people in the room, with eventual integration into Core Video Pro.

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13:32a lot of updates lately. And I noticed that they, some time ago, not that long ago, they added some new talkback feature. Do you know any, have you heard anything about this new talkback feature in the API that allows you to, is it supposed to be like a comms solution? Is that something that you're working on with Core Video? I think it is a comm solution, but it's more like a last mile type of thing.

13:54I do have a standalone app that can do it. It's called Zcoms. That's also on the Core Video website. You can download. It's fairly simple. It just joins a room, and then you're able to do the communication back to up to four people simultaneously or individually in the room. It will be built into Core Video Pro eventually. and there's like a version of it,

14:18a simplified version of it that's in the OBS app already. That's fantastic. Well, I appreciate the quick demo. That is amazing. I'm sure we've barely scratched the surface of it. I mean, there's zero reason now. I hope we spread the gospel when people find out about this app because, I mean, there's zero reason now for anybody to just screen scrape a Zoom meeting

14:39because this is going to look so much better. I'm sure the color quality and the frame rate and everything, your whole production is going to look a lot better when you start doing the ISO feeds and stuff like that. So, yeah, I hope everyone checks it out. The video, just want to make sure I get the domain name right. It's corevideo.io. Is that correct?

14:59That's correct. All right, everyone, go download it now and check it out. Mac OS and Windows. All right, Courtney, let's go to the next question. All right, very cool. um all right this one comes in from paul valhus in austin texas paul says what's a low budget underwater video and audio setup and high budget are you taking your podcast to the bottom of the

15:23pool uh paul i'm not sure what you want here but go ahead corny and take a crack at this you know nobody else raised their hands i did a little bit of research you know for underwater It depends on whether you're talking about just recording something and, you know, pulling it out of the underwater environment and then playing it back later. Or if you're trying to do live streaming, that could be much more difficult because then you've got to get wires out of the camera and audio.

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