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 the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.

It's not always possible to go to a conference room if they are already booked or you are in a shared workspace. So it would be pretty useful to be able to mute a specific participant.

yes please implement this. i desperately need this, as im in meetings every day with mixed team (local/remote) and i hear the local ppl twice with a delay. drives me crazy.

This needed to be implemented years ago like it was for Discord/Zoom/Teamspeak. How is Teams so far behind other voice/video chat that they don't have this feature implemented?

This is a feature which I see will be more useful as parts of the workforce start returning to the office and parts continue working remotely. People in the office will always be using their desk stations to join Teams meetings due to the need for sharing personal work content, often with other office people mixed with remote people so the effect of hearing office voices both live and through Teams will become more of an annoyance.I also imagine that the way Teams takes multiple input streams of audio and video and combines them into a single stream of mixed audio and video to multiple participants is the main stumbling block to implementing this feature. It would need the Teams server to also have the ability to customise the mixed audio output stream for each participant, so instead of a single mixed stream there would potentially be as many output streams as there are participants in the Teams meeting.Regardless, it would be an awesome feature enhancement if Microsoft could get it working.

How can it still be impossible to mute/unmute a specific person only for me?! Awful lack of a feature.

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JacobtheAdmin
Brass Contributor
Apr 07, 2022
This needed to be implemented years ago like it was for Discord/Zoom/Teamspeak. How is Teams so far behind other voice/video chat that they don't have this feature implemented?
EWoodrick
Iron Contributor
Jan 10, 2022
If you are in a community space, the best thing is to wear headsets, so that you don't bother your neighbors or go to a conference room where you can both join the call together.
- Daniel Blumentritt
  Brass Contributor
  Sep 02, 2022
  Even with headsets, if some users are remote and others are sitting a few feet from you, you'll hear them both in person AND through your headset, which is highly unsatisfactory. Other voice chat programs figured this out years ago.
- crackerEV
  Brass Contributor
  Jul 06, 2022
  even if wearing headsets, the non electronic audio and subsequent electronic audio some milliseconds later is wildly annoying and distracting
- crackerEV
  Brass Contributor
  Jul 06, 2022
  headphones, as a hardware solution, is not what OP asked for, they clearly asked for software solution

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