Jan 10 2022 04:44 AM
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.
Sep 12 2022 01:00 PM
@KLeDematicAU, it isn't a perfect solution, but, I would propose that the audio should never be muted when multiple people are talking simultaneously. Otherwise as you point out, all information is lost. So the echo problem still exists, but it is suppressed in cases where people are behaving politely and taking turns speaking.
Sep 12 2022 03:32 PM
@Kent_Austin you are correct in saying the echo problem would still exist, but I can't fathom how you conclude it would be suppressed at the same time. It's got nothing to do with manners, but a technical oversight by Microsoft of what routinely happens in offices larger then one, where people Teams meet from their desks, instead of gathering around a dedicated teleconferencing unit (in a meeting room)
Sep 13 2022 06:43 AM
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Sep 14 2022 02:06 AM - edited Sep 14 2022 02:07 AM
This is serious issue in our office. It's impossible to mute and unmute personal headphones physically since then you will miss some of the conversation from remote people.
The main issue is that on the meetings, where whole team is present(as well as remote people), the person that is talking is hearing multiple echoes with delay of it's own voice in the headphones all around.
This makes it impossible for the person to speak.
I don't imagine everyone muting and unmuting their systems sound every half a second as a viable workaround.
This feature would save hundreds of people a lot of headache if you only care about this.
So please, start caring.
Sep 14 2022 04:53 AM
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; Add the ability to mute participants for yourself not for everyone · Community (microsoft.com)
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Sep 16 2022 12:30 AM - edited Sep 16 2022 12:50 AM
@Ed Woodrick Isn't it obvious that we use headphones? No one is on speaker, but you still hear yourself as other clearly explain.
It is an issue. Just because you have great hardware set-up doesn't mean others do as well.
If you have headphones with superb isolation, then of course you're in your own world.
But you're in your own world if you believe that everyone can have such a setup.
Same story with the meeting rooms. We have meetings with 30 people present. Just think about your advice then.
You're advocating people and organizations to take the cost of Microsoft not wanting to implement a feature that is widely popular in communication realm. And you're fighting people who have actual issues with this.
The point of new technology is to be better then the old technology. So I don't know why I have to point out that comparing Microsoft Teams Service to the old telephones is bad, seems obvious, again.
Again your whole response is based on some fantasy world where I use PC speakers and Mic's, but that is just not the case. It's standard Jabra headphones with mic. So while it's a lot of words, it completely misses the point.
And there are not a lot of solutions. Only ones I heard so far was:
-buy better hardware (1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
-buy bigger conference rooms (same issue, just the name of the room changes, 1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
-mute and unmute your headphones when someone speaks next to you. (1. unrealistic 2. Not in Microsoft control )
Here is mine:
-allow people control over who they hear, and how loud. ( totally in Microsoft control which is why we are all here, writing to Microsoft, and not for advice to be richer)
And please, don't say obvious stuff like, wear a headset, since I saw no one in my life to be on the speakers in the office situation, and you probably neither.
It's MS Teams issue for MS Teams to deal with.
Saying that we should all get better headphones is not only rude, but bad policy, since we have MS Teams approved headphones, and it's bad for the environment. Don't be like that.
Sep 16 2022 06:25 AM
My issue related to being able to mute a person but not on the scale you guys are talking about. There are people that make useless noises in the teams chat, but when you mute them, they unmute themselves. Just because everyone is in the same meeting does not mean that all information talked about is pertinent to me. I would like to be able to mute people that make random noises or that I just don't need to hear their chatter on, so when the people how make noises relevant to the topics I care about, I can hear. And I don't like to wear a headset, they bother my ears so that would also be helpful to mute local people around me and likewise them to me, so we don't cause reverb.
Sep 16 2022 06:29 AM
Sep 16 2022 06:33 AM
@Ed Woodrick You have to be intentionally being an idiot. We aren't complaining because we can't hear the people next to us. We are complaining because we CAN hear them next to us and in the meeting. There's no reason we should have to listen them double with a second delay between in person and over Teams.
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