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BGregrich
Copper Contributor
Dec 15, 2023

Teams Town Hall

We have been testing the new Teams Town Hall in preparation for the replacement our current solution which is Zoom for all monthly all employee meetings. During these tests we have found that there is a 30-40 second delay in audio for all those that are not presenters.  Is this normal feature of Town Hall meetings or can we change this somewhere? 

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  • Greycloud's avatar
    Greycloud
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 26, 2025

    You will find a delay in any transcoded live events platform. It's the encoding into multiple streams and bitrates for the end user that causes the latency. 

    Microsoft will be releasing Ultra low-latency Town Halls for Teams Premium and Microsoft eCDN. You can read about it in the https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=New+Last+Week&searchterms=486535#owRoadmapMainContent

  • JakeSully's avatar
    JakeSully
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 09, 2024
    This is normal. Town Halls are replacing Live Events which have a 20-30 second delay between presenters speaking and when attendees hear them. Only Teams Meetings/Webinars are instantaneous.