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Allow muting a person only for me
EWoodrick Isn't it obvious that we use headphones? No one is on speaker, but you still hear yourself as other clearly explain.
It is an issue. Just because you have great hardware set-up doesn't mean others do as well.
If you have headphones with superb isolation, then of course you're in your own world.
But you're in your own world if you believe that everyone can have such a setup.
Same story with the meeting rooms. We have meetings with 30 people present. Just think about your advice then.
You're advocating people and organizations to take the cost of Microsoft not wanting to implement a feature that is widely popular in communication realm. And you're fighting people who have actual issues with this.
The point of new technology is to be better then the old technology. So I don't know why I have to point out that comparing Microsoft Teams Service to the old telephones is bad, seems obvious, again.
Again your whole response is based on some fantasy world where I use PC speakers and Mic's, but that is just not the case. It's standard Jabra headphones with mic. So while it's a lot of words, it completely misses the point.
And there are not a lot of solutions. Only ones I heard so far was:
-buy better hardware (1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
-buy bigger conference rooms (same issue, just the name of the room changes, 1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
-mute and unmute your headphones when someone speaks next to you. (1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
Here is mine:
-allow people control over who they hear, and how loud. ( totally in Microsoft control which is why we are all here, writing to Microsoft, and not for advice to be richer)
And please, don't say obvious stuff like, wear a headset, since I saw no one in my life to be on the speakers in the office situation, and you probably neither.
It's MS Teams issue for MS Teams to deal with.
Saying that we should all get better headphones is not only rude, but bad policy, since we have MS Teams approved headphones, and it's bad for the environment. Don't be like that.
How did you do this before Teams? You either went into conference rooms or you were on a conference bridge, which often had the same delay, especially iy you were calling from a cellphone.
You seem to think that you are receiving individual audio feeds for all the people in a conference, you aren't. They are combined in the conference bridge in the cloud. Which is why person to person Teams calls stay on your network, but any time that you have 3 or more people, it uses a Teams conference bridge.
You only get one audio feed. You also get a suggestion of who is talking, from the ring around the user coming on, but you can see that it is far from perfect. The conference bridge mixes the audio, it doesn't switch it, so you can have 5 people with their rings on at one time.
So Microsoft really CAN'T allow you to hear only who you want to hear, the single audio stream is sent identically to all participants in a call. If you muted the audio went the light of someone near you speaks up, you would miss a LOT of the call. Especially if their background noise was keeping their ring lit.
This isn't as obvious as everyone thinks that it is and this is the Tech community where people can go for help from their peers. The place to put Microsoft request has already been posted in this thread. If you want Microsoft to review it, you need to upvote it.