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er008
Jan 10, 2022Steel Contributor
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...
AdamZovits
May 09, 2023Brass Contributor
Sadly it's not that simple, see Ed's comment (if, for some reason you didn't read the rest of the thread you're replying to):
"You seem to think that you are receiving individual audio feeds for all the people in a conference, you aren't. They are combined in the conference bridge in the cloud. Which is why person to person Teams calls stay on your network, but any time that you have 3 or more people, it uses a Teams conference bridge.
You only get one audio feed. You also get a suggestion of who is talking, from the ring around the user coming on, but you can see that it is far from perfect. The conference bridge mixes the audio, it doesn't switch it, so you can have 5 people with their rings on at one time."
costinel
Jun 05, 2023Brass Contributor
wow so according to that explanation, MS Teams is _FUNDAMENTALLY_ broken by design...