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er008
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2022

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...
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tm1212
Copper Contributor
Jul 25, 2023

Signed up specifically to indicate that we need this feature as well. My colleagues and I regularly move over to Discord when we have to work alongside each other for a longer time, because Teams becomes unbearable if 2 people are in the same room or one person has a jackhammer in the background and keeps forgetting to mute themselves when they are not speaking.

I understand that the audiostream is mixed server-side and this is messier to implement than it seems at first glance, but MS should probably know that the lack of this feature is driving at least some people to other platforms on a regular basis. None of these alternative platforms can offer some of the other functionalities that Teams offers, but that just means that usage keeps being fragmented and it really is just this single feature being responsible for that.

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