But... what is it?
Very useful for remote work:
- you can type on mechanical keyboards during calls without annoying your co-workers
- if you move away from your computer for a while, the microphone will be muted, so you avoid background noise and embarrassing situations
- if you un-mute the microphone without touching the trigger key, it will remain un-muted. In case you want to have longer conversations. Touching the trigger key will mute it again
My Thinkpad also has microphone mute button with a LED, so I already have this.
It's pretty simple to add notifications, just change this script to invoke a wrapper script that uses "notify-send" then runs "pulseaudio-ctl":
notify-send "Muted: $1"
pulseaudio-ctl mute-input "$1"
Edit: this is the headset https://www.astrogaming.com/en-us/products/headsets/a10-gen-...
Also, this is not an endorsement, I would actually not recommend this headset.