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Allow muting a person only for me
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)
- The funny part of this is that you think that the person next to you's audio should be muted. You probably don't realize it, but your own audio isn't completely muted. There is a concept called sidetone in which your own audio is fed back to you as you are talking. It's been in phone systems since they were basically created. If you don't hear your own audio, you think that the connection is dead.
All of this is a LOT more complicated that people believe it to be. There is nothing simple here.
If you can hear the person near you talking, then the first thing is that both are you are being rude to the other workers around you. They can't focus on their jobs, because they hear you as well.
If you are in a team call, go to a conference room or a huddle room so that you don't interrupt everyone around you..
That's the RIGHT answer.- "Back in the old days" of normal desk phones, this happened all the time where different people were engaging in conversations not related while others around worked at their desk. Nothing is different except the technology to do the conversation. You didn't expect people then to get up and transfer their call to a meeting room !
Also, many offices do not have enough meeting rooms for all the different "phone call" conversations which might happen at the same time through Teams. You cannot expect that to happen either.
Simple truth is that Teams needs to bring the technology into it like many of the other online meeting platforms already have.
