Forum Discussion
Allow muting a person only for me
Moving to a conference room and using its audio system is sometimes not practical and often just not possible.
Maybe if Microsoft provided some "virtual" equivalent of a meeting room and treat all headset microphones as being part of that room, this could also solve that issue.
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.
