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Linux & Steam Deck

A soundboard for Linux and Steam Deck

SoundRelay plays audio clips through your microphone in games and voice chat. On Linux it makes its own virtual microphone when it starts, so there is no driver to install and no system setting to change.

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THE VIRTUAL MICROPHONE

How it works on Linux

  • SoundRelay creates a virtual microphone each time it starts, through PipeWire or PulseAudio.
  • It links your own microphone to the virtual one by itself, so people hear your clips together with your voice.
  • In Discord, your game or your streaming software, pick SoundRelay_Microphone_Input as the microphone.
  • The virtual microphone is removed when SoundRelay quits. Nothing stays behind.

Before you buy

What your system needs

One purchase on Steam covers Linux, Steam Deck and Windows.

Sound server

PipeWire with pipewire-pulse, or PulseAudio. SoundRelay builds its microphone with the pactl command. If the app says it cannot find pactl, install pulseaudio-utils on Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora, or libpulse on Arch, then restart SoundRelay.

Tested systems

SteamOS (the Steam Deck's system), Bazzite and CachyOS. Most Fedora-based and Arch-based systems are expected to work, but they have not all been tested.

Hotkeys on X11

Hotkeys work while any window has focus.

Hotkeys on Wayland

Hotkeys always work while a game running through Proton has focus. On KDE Plasma, combinations with Ctrl, Alt or Meta and the F keys also work in every other window. Plain letter and number keys work in every window only after you set “Legacy X11 App Support” to “Always” in KDE's System Settings.

The full app

Everything works on Linux

The Linux version has the same features as the Windows one, and the same sound files.

  • Steam Workshop. Get and share clips inside the app. A Workshop clip is the same item on every system.
  • Steam Cloud. Your sound files sync between your computers, so clips you added on a Windows PC arrive on your Linux PC or Steam Deck.
  • Sound files. MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, M4A and WebM. A clip from one system plays on the other with nothing to convert.
  • Picture icons and tags. Find a clip by sight, and filter your library and the Workshop by tag.
  • Hotkeys and presets. Each preset has its own hotkeys, so the same keys can do different things in different games.
  • Editor and recorder. Crop, cut, change volume and speed, or record a new clip.

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Your clips. Your voice. One microphone.

SoundRelay is on Steam for Windows, Linux and Steam Deck. $4.99, bought once.

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