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Allow muting a person only for me
This is a feature which I see will be more useful as parts of the workforce start returning to the office and parts continue working remotely. People in the office will always be using their desk stations to join Teams meetings due to the need for sharing personal work content, often with other office people mixed with remote people so the effect of hearing office voices both live and through Teams will become more of an annoyance.
I also imagine that the way Teams takes multiple input streams of audio and video and combines them into a single stream of mixed audio and video to multiple participants is the main stumbling block to implementing this feature. It would need the Teams server to also have the ability to customise the mixed audio output stream for each participant, so instead of a single mixed stream there would potentially be as many output streams as there are participants in the Teams meeting.
Regardless, it would be an awesome feature enhancement if Microsoft could get it working.
This would be an excellent feature. Not just if someone is near me but I use teams with INTL people and some people don't know English, while this is currently the only language that I understand, it would be handy to mute those individuals so I can focus on those that I understand.