Forum Discussion
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...
Issue
It appears that audio stream sent to the Teams client is mixed in the cloud and sent to individual users as a single merged stream.
Benefits
- This reduces the amount of network traffic sent to individual users.
- This typically creates a low-effort solution that covers most use cases.
Disadvantages
- As listed here, sitting next to someone who is also on the call, you must deal with echo.
- There is another issue not mentioned - you cannot change the volume for individual users - there is one person on many of my calls who constantly shouts. I cannot reduce her volume.
Conclusion
Contrary to some of the suggestions here, many products ARE implementing this feature.
Microsoft should send individual voice streams to the client and give customers the option to mute or change the volume on individual users.
It would also be fine if we get the option to mute people from being mixed into our stream in the cloud. I would think every listener has an own stream mixed for them, that mutes their own voice. So there is no reason why others could not also be muted. Except for laziness.
