Remove voice effects

2026-07-14 18:41:50 -04:00
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commit 9bc514e74f
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@@ -18,26 +18,6 @@ If a user is too soft to hear, you can boost their audio.
 The audio should drastically increase once you have hit the VolumeUp key over 10 times (from the silent/0 position).
 The boost setting is saved per user, just like per user volume.

-## Voice Effects
-
-Barnard includes real-time voice effects that can be applied to your outgoing microphone audio. Press F12 to cycle through the available effects.
-
-### Available Effects
- **None**: No effect applied (default)
- **Echo**: Single repeating delay effect with feedback (250ms) - creates distinct repetitions that fade away
- **Reverb**: Multiple short delays (12.5ms, 20ms, 33ms) without feedback - adds thickness and fullness to your voice
- **High Pitch**: Chipmunk-style voice using pitch shifting
- **Low Pitch**: Deep voice using pitch shifting
- **Robot**: Ring modulation effect for robotic sound
- **Chorus**: Layered voices with slight pitch variations for a rich, ensemble sound
-
-### Controls
- **F12 key**: Cycle through voice effects (configurable hotkey)
- **Configuration**: Your selected effect is saved in `~/.barnard.toml`
-
-### How It Works
-Voice effects are applied to your outgoing audio in real-time, after noise suppression and automatic gain control. The effects use various digital signal processing techniques including delay lines, pitch shifting with cubic interpolation, and ring modulation.
-
 ## Noise Suppression

 Barnard includes RNNoise-based real-time noise suppression for microphone input to filter out background noise such as keyboard typing, computer fans, and other environmental sounds.
@@ -265,7 +245,6 @@ After running the command above, `barnard` will be compiled as `$(go env GOPATH)
 - <kbd>F1</kbd>: toggle voice transmission
 - <kbd>F9</kbd>: toggle noise suppression
 - <kbd>F11</kbd>: open actions menu for the focused tree item
- <kbd>F12</kbd>: cycle through voice effects
 - <kbd>Ctrl+R</kbd>: toggle recording
 - <kbd>Ctrl+L</kbd>: clear chat log
 - <kbd>Tab</kbd>: toggle focus between chat and user tree