Talk like anyone else.

61 voices for CS2, Discord, OBS or any program you pick, from one 500 KB Windows app. Free, open source, no account.

Download Goby 0.4.0 Windows 10 and 11

Every voice is drawn the way it sounds.

Put headphones on first: through speakers your voice comes back into the mic. Nothing leaves your browser.

Goby

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Basics

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Three minutes from download to the game.

Get Goby

One file. Choose Install Goby, or Just run it to try it without installing. No administrator rights, no account.

Add the cable

Goby reaches other programs through the free VB-Audio Virtual Cable. Without it, Goby walks you through installing it and picks it up without a restart.

Pick the programs

On Programs, press + next to CS2, Discord or OBS. Only they hear the voice; everything else keeps your real microphone. A program with its own microphone setting, like Telegram, needs it on Default once, and Goby tells you when.

Goby's Programs page: Counter-Strike 2 hearing Goby right now, and Telegram, Chrome, Steam, OBS and Discord offered with their own icons.

About 28 ms from your mouth to the game. Under 0.4 % of one core for the heaviest voice. Updates only from signed releases. Nothing sent anywhere else.

Made for playing.

  • CtrlAltGeffect on and off, inside the game
  • CtrlAltPgUpprevious voice
  • CtrlAltPgDnnext voice

Star the voices you use and the hotkeys and the tray menu cycle only those. Close the window and Goby keeps going in the tray; it starts with Windows only if you ask it to.

Goby's Settings page: microphone, noise gate, output, tray, startup, hotkeys and updates.

Questions

Will an anti-cheat mind it?

Goby never touches the game: it does not inject anything or read its memory. The game only sees one more microphone, made by VB-Audio's ordinary signed driver.

Can other programs still use my microphone?

Yes, Goby shares it. Low latency under Settings > Advanced takes it exclusively for about 14 ms less delay, and then nothing else can record from it while Goby runs.

How do I know my copy is the real one?

Every release lists the SHA-256 of each file in SHA256SUMS.txt; compare it with Get-FileHash in PowerShell. Goby's own updater installs only releases signed with the author's key. Settings shows the version and the commit a copy says it was built from.

Why does it need VB-Cable?

A program can only record from a microphone Windows knows about. VB-Cable is that microphone; Goby plays into it. Writing a driver of its own would mean a kernel component on your machine, and Goby would rather not.

Mac or Linux?

No. Goby is built on Windows audio and the Windows UI, which is a large part of why it is small and fast.