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Separate Simple Voice Chat listening and speaking permissions

Applies to: Simple Voice Chat; match the linked maintainer documentation to your installed platform and release.
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A connected voice icon does not guarantee that both speaking and listening are allowed. Compare those permissions separately when one rank can hear others but cannot reply, or appears muted only on this server.

Prepare the test

Identify the client mod, server implementation and allocated voice endpoint before changing audio settings. Keep Minecraft joining and voice transport as separate tests; success on one does not prove the other.

Make the change

  1. Choose two ordinary connected players with compatible client mods. Confirm neither has locally muted the other and both have selected a working input and output device before changing server-side permission inheritance.
  2. On a supported plugin server, inspect the effective voicechat.listen and voicechat.speak permissions for the affected player. Check explicit denies, inherited groups and contexts rather than assuming the primary rank is the whole result.
  3. Correct only the permission that contradicts your policy. These capabilities are normally granted to everyone, so investigate an unexpected deny before adding a wildcard or making the player an operator.
  4. Have the affected player reconnect if your permission integration requires it. Test a short spoken phrase in each direction while the players stand within proximity range, then repeat with an unaffected account for comparison.

Check the result

The test should establish separately that the affected player hears speech and transmits speech. Preserve intentional mute or moderation restrictions; repairing one accidental deny should not grant voice administration or access to unrelated groups.

If the test fails

Restore the previous permission change if it does not alter the failing direction. Next inspect the local microphone, mute state and voice connection rather than assigning broad privileges to a client with an audio-device problem.

Permission-system support depends on the server implementation. The project does not support hybrid plugin-and-mod servers, so do not assume a Bukkit permission result controls a mixed implementation in the same way.

References and related help

Check the official Simple Voice Chat documentation against your installed release before using a command or setting from another version.

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