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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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- 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!
- Created an account just to concur with this. I actually kept muting my co-worker who thought he was having an hardware issue because I thought it was obvious in a modern group call program that muting a person i just for the person who mutes. (If anything, I can't imagine many use cases for the currently implemented call-wide mute.)
We have hybrid meetings where some are connecting remotely and others are in the same room talking into a room mic. The people working locally are having a face-to-face meeting and remote workers can chime in through the call. If I could mute the room mic, I could listen the remote workers through my earbuds and local workers regularly in the room.
The current solution in our case has been broadcasting the call sound through one computer's speakers and using a room mic to record everyone in the room (while the rest of people who are in the meeting locally mute themselves), which has worked decently enough, but I suspect it's causing some feedback for the remote workers when the room mic picks up the speakers. It would be nice to hear the remote workers through earbuds though, especially when a larger meeting is happening.- "Created an account just to concur with this." Same!
Concurring here does little, instead visit https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/6259eda6-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827b493?q=mute+individual+people and vote there.
- Please implement this. It would be very apreshiated!
I'm not subject to this problem personally, but there's nothing on the roadmap for this as far as I'm aware or can see. There is a feedback item though which is drastically short on enough votes to get it onto said roadmap. Upvotes this way; https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/fa54134d-e50c-ed11-a81b-6045bd864d4f
