Nextcloud Talk is the videoconferencing and chatting application of Nextcloud Hub.
Use cases for Nextcloud Talk are almost endless, let's list a few of them:
- Daily internal and external communication of your company.
- Videoconferencing tool for remote training sessions and workshop.
- Webinar platform.
The videoconferencing platform can scale to up to thousands of concurrent users thanks to the Nextcloud Talk High Performance Backend, while both the videoconferencing and chatting experience typically exceed user expectations.
Let's review Nextcloud Talk's main functionalities:
- Users can create 1-to-1, group and public conversations. Users and groups can be added via auto-completion and conversations can be made searchable from within the organization.
- Users can access their conversations from all the devices: web browsers, Android (and derivatives) and iOS and Windows, Linux and macOS desktop client.
- Enjoy a full chatting experience thanks to:
- Markdown text formatting.
- Voice messages.
- Files creation, share or upload from within the message sending menu.
- Delete messages.
- Forward messages to other conversations with a special one called "Note to self" to keep track of personal tasks.
- Copy message link.
- Create polls in group conversations.
- Reply privately to messages in group conversations.
- Advanced notification management to reduce volume of unimportant notifications.
- Read and typing status.
- Mention groups and users to force a notification.
- Enjoy a full videoconferencing experience thanks to:
- Background blurring and virtual backgrounds.
- Screen sharing.
- Reactions.
- Call Recording.
- Grid and speaker view.
- Breakout rooms.
- Raise hand and mute others.
- Lobby.
- Advanced moderation options. The moderator can set up a default permission set for the participants, and modify them on the fly individually during the call.
- Search in conversations and messages in the framework of Nextcloud Unified Search.
- Get an overview of previously shared items, grouped by category, and quickly access them.
- Setup message expiration for improved privacy.
- Search and add link to any Nextcloud resource by invoking the Smart Picker.
- Deep integrations with other apps of the platform:
- Integrated with the platform notification system.
- Create a Deck card from a message or send a Deck card to a conversation from the board.
- Share files directly from the message sending menu.
- Create a conversation from the event creation menu without manually switching to Talk. Same from the Appointment app.
- Automatically adjust your status when you are in a meeting.
- Display most recent conversations in the dashboard.
- Several capabilities can be set at the instance level. This is useful when we want to limit certain capabilities to only to a group of users.
As mentioned above Nextcloud Talk videoconferencing relies on a component called Nextcloud Talk High Performance Backend. This components introduces a media server can be fully managed by your company, leading to full control of your communications. Not only the media server can be self-hosted, but also the recording server, the SIP bridge and other necessary components of a fully functional WebRTC-based system.
