I have a posting on the forums that includes a variety of recommended changes to your game config file you might find useful, especially a resizing of the compass and setting functions keys 1-5 to adjust your brightness without leaving game play.
This tip will describe how to setup teamspeak for voice activation, and then to mute teamspeak when you want to talk to your team over in-game chat.
To calibrate your voice detection, you click the “Begin Test” button and then slide the slider to the left or right—to the right makes it less sensitive, to the left makes it more sensitive. You should set it where it activates when you talk normally—you shouldn’t have to shout. Note that you might have to change the “Capture Device” to identify your microphone, as well as the “Playback” selection on the left, which is used to set the output volume and the output device. If you listen with speakers and not headphones, do not use voice activation as described below; ignore this tip.
This is how it looks on my Macintosh, it might be different on your computer.
It is nice to be able to chat in-game and not in teamspeak at the same time, for two reasons: 1) it prevents echo, so others can understand you better 2) you can use in-game chat for things you want to keep secret from the other team.
In-game chat is activated by the “Z” key by default, so to mute teamspeak while you are talking in-game, set your hotkeys to include these two below:
