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Key Settings

Teamspeak comes with a very versatile and sophisticated system of binding options to certain keys so you have maximum controle over TeamSpeak without actually having to enter the program itself.
To bind keys go to the Settings Menu and choose Key Settings.You will now enter the window "Keybindings" (top picture) where you can actually bind functions to keys on your keyboard. To bind a function to a key press "add" and you will be presented with the dialogue "Define keybinding" (bottom picture). You can import keybind files other people have made with the "Import" button. Of course someone has to have made keybindings before and must have send the file to you. It ends with the extension: *.kbn. If you want to save your keybinds to a file (TeamSpeak 2 automatically saves your keybinds made to keybinds.kbn) different than the default one, press the "Export" button and choose a name and place to save it to.

In this dialogue you can start making your keybinds. You can bind single keys or make a combination by setting them. You can make combinations up to three keys at a time. After you have chose a key or combination of keys you can chose the action you want to bind to that key. The first action is "Whisper to". With this action you can talk exclusively to persons on the server (they can only hear you, no-one else). With Whisper to Player list you can whisper to one or more persons. Highlightboth the options and choose a person to add from the dropdown menu "Player to add", then press add. If you want more persons then just repeat this until all the persons you want to whisper to are in the right window. After that press "Ok".

You can also whisper to one or more complete channels with the Whsiper to Channel list. Highlight them both and choose a channel from the dropdown menu "Chan. to add", press add to add the channel. If you want more Channels to whipser to at once then add more. They appear in the right window. When done adding, press "Ok' to make the bind.

The whisper to Channel pre-defs let's you whisper to the parent channel you're in regardless of the names of the channels (e.g. let's say you are in channel 1 and you have a subchannel 1.1 in which you are located you can whisper to channel 1). With the Whisper to Channel pre-defs Subchannel you can whisper to all the subchannels of the parent channel you are in (e.g. you are in channel 1 and you'll whisper to subchannel 1.1, 1.2 etc.). This function doesn't work if you are in a subchannel yourself. With the Whisper to Channel pre-defs Channel family option you will whisper to both the parent channel and all of the subchannels regardless if you are in a subchannel or parent channel.

If you want to communicate with the Channel Commanders on the server you can bind to whisper to all the Channel Commanders on the server, all the Channel commanders in the subchannels of your current parent channel, all the Channel commanders in the parent channel, all the Channel commanders in the channel you are currently in (own channel) and the all Channel commanders in the parent channel and subchannels of that parent channel.

The Whisper to Preset function is a very complicated one. It involves the "Bind" function as well so I will describe that one in this section too. When someone whispers to you and you want to whisper back to them but you haven't made a bind for that you can bind it to a preset by pressing a button. This is what you do: Choose a key you want to bind. Then go to Bind Last whisperer to and choose a preset (from 0 to 9). Now if someone whispers to you, you can press that key. In other words the last person to whisper to you has been set to Preset N. Now you can bind a Whisper to Preset key. Choose a key and highlight Whisper to Preset and choose a preset number. Press "ok" when done. Now this is how it works: Someone whispers to you. You press the key you designated to Bind Last whisperer to preset N. After that you can press the Whisper to Preset N and you will whisper to the last person that whispered to you without knowing their nick or having to bind other stuff. You can also bind those two actions to one key which has some implications (think about it and you will find it out yourself).

The "Switch to" action makes you switch to channels or servers. You can bind a key to switch channels by highlighting the both and then choose a channel from the dropdown channels menu next to it. It will show all the channels on the server you are logged in. If the channel you want to switch is passworded you can fill that in at the password field. You can also swith to servers. Highlight both those options and a server list is shown in the dropdown menu. It shows all the servers you have in the Local Address book. It automatically copies all server specifics from the Local Address book so you won't have to fill in stuff like passwords or nicknames here. You can also bind keys to switch to the next channel or the previous channel. If you press the keybind it will go from the parent channel through all the subchannels of that specific parent and then to the next parent channel and its subchannels. If the last subchannel of the last parent channel is reached it will switch to the first parent channel again.

With the "Toggle" function you can toggle your status according to all the things stated in the right window. It pretty much explains itself and the statuses are covered in the previous chapters.

The "Bind" action is described in the "Whisper to preset" section above here.

The Set Volume action sets the output volume louder or softer or to a preset level. You can bind keys to make the output volume be set to a certain level (e.g. 30 %) or bind keys to lower or up the output volume with 10%. Press "ok" button when you are done.