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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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nick2165
Copper Contributor
Jul 23, 2024
Think that you should think about this in the reverse. Rather than muting get a feature that is "do not play back sound from this participant" against your user so it is the receiving end of the stream rather than the sending side being muted
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    SimonP1365
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 23, 2024

    nick2165Exactly. However all members of a Teams chat get the same audio mixed at the server and streamed to everyone. We don't get individual audio streams from each participant so the basic stuff like muting a specific user so it is muted for everyone is possible, but any further customisation is not.

     

    In order to mute specific users just for you, Teams would have to mix an audio stream specifically for you. Nice and easy: not a bandwidth problem, but Teams doesn't work like that.
    Obviously, what we'd like Teams to do is to work 'like that'.

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      Ascendor
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 12, 2024

      That doesn't make sense to me. If every member of a Teams chat received the same audio, I would hear my own echo. I don't.

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        David_Hurdle
        Copper Contributor
        Nov 12, 2024

        I think you might be forgetting a little thing called a sound wave that travels across the room independently of microsoft.

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    dpamment
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 23, 2024
    Yeah, that is what we are all talking about, only muting the user to yourself, not muting it at the sender end, that wouldnt make sense.

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