Forum Discussion
Allow muting a person only for me
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 should not be very difficult to exclude additional users, for each mix.
Martin_KalchgruberYes. It's the glaring error in the 'Everyone gets the same audio stream' argument. But, however, that is exactly the argument that we get. It's almost as if they are deliberately not allowing muting individually, unless something they did to mute your own audio has tied them in knots and they can't see a way out of it without putting some effort in.
- This kind of echo could even be detected automatically as it is recorded by our microphones.
Maybe they don't like the aspect of controlling the mute from the receiving end of the stream.
One could simply invert this and have the person with the microphone select, to whom they want to send their audio stream.
If the audio streams would be sent in peer to peer fashion I think, that this echo would not even be recognizable and maybe there would not even be a need for this mute functionality.
