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Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between...
I agree! This is an important feature for my office environment, and it is technically feasible ... sort of.
Instead of muting a single speaker, the speaker identification function (the one that puts a colored ring around the active speaker) could be used to mute all audio on the local machine every time all of the currently active speakers have been "muted." This way there is no need to send multiple audio streams to each attendee, and the local machine does not need to mix audio.
There may be some software development effort required to make the speaker identification function more responsive and keep it synchronized with the audio stream, and muting won't work when there are both muted and unmuted speakers at the same time, but I think it would serve the purpose well.
Kent_Austin But how would that work when multiple people are speaking at the same time with one being remote along one in the office ? You would then not be able to hear the remote person's conversation because the whole audio stream has been muted just to block out the person speaking in the office.
KLeDematicAU, it isn't a perfect solution, but, I would propose that the audio should never be muted when multiple people are talking simultaneously. Otherwise as you point out, all information is lost. So the echo problem still exists, but it is suppressed in cases where people are behaving politely and taking turns speaking.
Kent_Austin you are correct in saying the echo problem would still exist, but I can't fathom how you conclude it would be suppressed at the same time. It's got nothing to do with manners, but a technical oversight by Microsoft of what routinely happens in offices larger then one, where people Teams meet from their desks, instead of gathering around a dedicated teleconferencing unit (in a meeting room)
It's pretty bush league that Teams still doesn't allow this. If a bunch of us are in a meeting, some remotely and some in the office, and someone is talking 5 feet from me, hearing them 1/5 of a second apart in reality and in my headset is very annoying.
There's a 'mute participant" option but it mutes the person for everyone else instead of just for me.
