Forum Discussion
Allow muting a person only for me
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.
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.
- karen_dredske Still off topic: It's not about a speaker being loud. It's about hearing the voice of the person next to you via air AND cable. Of yourse you can take off and on your headset all the time.
Professional video conferencing tools beside MS teams DO offer the solution to mute peoeple locally on your computer. It's not rocket science. - oh another internet karen. ffs...
- costinel2081 I'm really sorry you feel that way. That was not my intention. I can tell you it really sucks having a name that people use as an adjective - especially when it isn't who I am. I feel for your situation. I think everyone has been there - whether at your desk in a bullpen or in a conference room that doesn't have mics setup. It stinks. Adam_Zovits mentions that there is other web conferencing software that allows individuals to mute other individuals from them. Which software does this? I am interested and would like to suggest this to the people I know on the Teams engineering team.
- karen_dredske : Discord, TeamSpeak, Mumble are the ones that come into my mind right away. Pretty sure there's more. It's a standard feature for years. Hence the many people requesting it. It solves a real world problem, even if you don't get the point yet.
