Forum Discussion
Allow muting a person only for me
We have hybrid meetings where some are connecting remotely and others are in the same room talking into a room mic. The people working locally are having a face-to-face meeting and remote workers can chime in through the call. If I could mute the room mic, I could listen the remote workers through my earbuds and local workers regularly in the room.
The current solution in our case has been broadcasting the call sound through one computer's speakers and using a room mic to record everyone in the room (while the rest of people who are in the meeting locally mute themselves), which has worked decently enough, but I suspect it's causing some feedback for the remote workers when the room mic picks up the speakers. It would be nice to hear the remote workers through earbuds though, especially when a larger meeting is happening.
Concurring here does little, instead visit https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/6259eda6-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827b493?q=mute+individual+people and vote there.
the feedback link doesn't work for me, it logs me in then it tells me "https://i.imgur.com/wwYBHSR.png"
I cannot believe Microsoft needs three pages of arguments in this thread and still not read it nor understand why this feature is screaming obviously basic /facepalm
I will politely decline all Microsoft Teams invitations at work because of this. Jitsi Meet works just fine in desktops, iOS and Androids. No profiling, tracking and signups.
Here is a small and quick reproductible case, in case microsoft fails to understand why this is a basic feature and not special request:
Team mates A and B are the sole persons in the same room. They join the same Teams meeting. They don't have: a conference room, dedicated conference equipment, gaming level headphones. All they have is their laptops and their phones and headphones.
Mate A starts speaking.
At T0 moment of time, sound travels the room and reaches B ears.
At the same time, A's voice sound goes via the microphone to Teams conference servers, then returns to B headphones at T1=(T0+some miliseconds) moment of time.
Result: B hears A twice, at some sub-second delay. This creates a very difficult situation for B to focus on that A is talking because that's how human ears work.
The only terrible workaround for B is to mute own speaker/headset altogether while A is speaking, then immediately release the mute as A stops speaking, potentially missing what others in the conference might say.
No, going to separate offices is not possible
No, using noise cancellation headsets are not available.
No, conference equipment is not available in the room.
The simple solution in Jitsi Meet is B hovers the mouse over A icon in the meeting, a sound volume slide appears and slides it down to zero. This way, B only hears A via the local physical presence, while still listens and speaks clearly to the meeting.
