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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 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.
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This is a completely basic feature which voice and conference programs had figured out and had availible as an option around 2001-2003. It's a joke that Microsoft still hasnt implemented this
- In hybrid offices, this is an extremely important feature. It's remarkable, that Teams does not allow this.
- Commenting to help this gain traction. Definite +1 for this
- Same issue here. Private mute would be very useful!
- Yet another idea already enabled elsewhere. I work in a team where we hold a daily meeting - some of us are in the same physical space, and others are elsewhere. It makes sense to allow us all to remain un-muted in these meetings, while blocking each others audio.
I see two solutions and a workaround:
- Let us mute local audio from people we do not need to hear twice
- Allow us to define a group of people all in the same room that Teams just locally mutes
- Everyone uses Discord for voice chat because we can do this there - This would be a fantastic addition to Teams. I know I have definitely been weirded out by having a colleague in the same room in the same meeting and hearing them twice.
This feature exists in other voice apps, there's no reason why Teams shouldn't have it. Like others have said, in a hybrid office/wfh environment it can get very annoying without having this option.
Yes, please add this feature! It is very frustrating, when one (or more) team participants is sitting right in front of you and you are hearing his voice with a slight delay.
- +1, it's a really bad experience to be in the same room. and we all have good headsets.
I strongly recommend implementing this feature as well, we switched from Discord to Teams at work for meetings and muting other people for myself is not negotiable. I even use noise cancelling headphones but I can still hear people in the same room. Hybrid office work with home office and in house presence is very common these days!
