A lot of random video chat sites decide for you: camera on, stranger on screen, good luck. On TumileChat you pick the mode before each match. Video puts both faces on screen, voice keeps it to sound, and text turns the call into a typed back-and-forth. Fancy something different next time? Switch before the following match; nothing ties you to one style.
Every 1v1 video chat opens with a quick profile strip (name, age, home country, level, spoken language), which hands you a starting point before anyone talks. The queue itself stays random on purpose. You might meet a night owl in Manila, then someone finishing a late shift in Houston, and neither was picked from a menu.
Would you rather talk to strangers you have already spotted? Open Who's online and ask one person for a private one-to-one video call. Those calls run on coins, and you see your balance before anything begins, so a paid call never starts by surprise. The same list has a Live tab for rooms you can watch first, and chat translation works in there too.