Clubhouse Voice Rooms Now Gives You the Option to Chat via Text Too

Clubhouse will now let users interact in voice rooms over text.

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Rooms with text chat enabled will have a dedicated icon at the bottom left of the screen.

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Clubhouse had started allowing anyone - even those without an account - to listen to conversations taking place on the platform through Clubhouse for Web since last month.

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Clubhouse announced in a blog post that the platform wants everyone to be able to join live conversations, whether by voice or text.

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Named In-Room Chat, the new feature is similar the feature offered by Skype and Zoom - a text chat area within a live room.

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Voice room moderators will be able to delete chat messages, and creators can choose to disable text chat when starting a new room.

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There will be a dedicated icon at the bottom left of the screen for rooms that have the in-Room Chat feature enabled.

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Clubhouse expanded its platform to the Web in January 2022, so that anyone can listen to a live chat.

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