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Allow muting a person only for me
karen_dredske I think you misunderstand the problem, or voice isolation, or both.
Voice isolation makes sure that your microphone only submits your own voice, nothing else.
The problem people have, is that they hear people twice: Once over the (literal) air, because they are sitting next to each other, and once via cable, via MS Teams.
Voice isolation can not help this.
- If I'm in a conference room, it's pretty easy for me to mute my speaker on my laptop and then one click to unmute it when the meeting is done. Then I don't have to hear it twice. ;^) That has been the easiest way to handle it since Teams meetings first came out.
Before taking on a condescending tone (as indicated by your use of " ;^) "), please make sure you have fully understood the issue.
If I'm in a room with colleague A and we're both in a Teams meeting with colleagues B and C joining remote, I will hear A's voice in real time and then with a slight delay over Teams. This is the problem that most other conferencing tools solve by offering the possibility to mute A only for me. If I were to mute my speaker (which I don't use, for I have a headset to avoid disturbing colleagues K, L and M who are sitting in the same room but are working on something completely unrelated, so let's say I mute my headset), I would hear neither A (yay!), nor B nor C (naw!), which would defeat the purpose of the meeting. I could alternatively mute A, which works globally, so now only I can hear A over the air, and B and C not at all.
- AdamZovits I was not trying to be condescending. But I know you can't hear a voice in a forum or chat.
dpamment and Martin_Kalchgruber if I am in that situation I either use a noise cancelling headset or I turn off my laptop speaker and listen to the conversation through my neighbor's computer if it is that loud. I have been in those situations and it isn't an easy situation to navigate sometimes. I don't think any of the other web conferencing options have a solution for this either. It's like how if I have voice isolation on and my dog starts barking it definitely is awesome because everyone else can't hear it, but I have to find a way to ignore it and not let it disrupt my meeting.
dpamment the idea of Bluetooth beaconing is pretty cool, but I could see where the assumption you give might be problematic if anyone has a hearing problem or if one of the people in the vicinity speaks quietly. Maybe that would get people closer to a better experience though.
and what would you do, if your developers need their display arrays and their usual environment during such meetings?
It is very impractical to move to a conference room for every short meeting.
- HI Karen,
As Ascendor says, voice isolation can't solve this issue. This is specifically for joining meetings when you are in the office with multiple people within the room joining the same conference on their own devices, not a conference room, where everyone in the room is listening to the same audio source, and using a room system.
As discussed before, the main issue is that the audio feed to your own device is a mix minus feed, and not a feed specific and customisable to yourself.
If it was, we then may be able to mute individuals that are in our office, without affecting other feeds.
What would be MUCH better, was if MS used Bluetooth beaconing, so people in the same meeting within a certain distance had their audio auto-muted (with the assumption you can hear them talking in the room).
