+1
I need this for hybrid meeting
+1 Can’t believe this isn’t a feature yet.
The original request was 4 years ago. Wow. How has this not been implemented?
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As an instructor that has participants often in the same room, a mute for me feature would be incredibly helpful. I often have another instructor teaching in person in the same room as me but I want to hear online students without echo from the instructor’s zoom account. Please please please make this a feature!
I would also very much like to have this function.
My only guess as to why this hasn’t been implemented yet is to reduce potential sources of error.
Mixed meetings where some people are present and others are joined via Zoom are becoming more common, there needs to be a way to fix the echo and double-voice problem for these cases.
“Mute for me” would be one option.
A more application-oriented function to solve the same problem would be the creation of “Present Groups” within the Zoom call. It indicates that people are sitting next to each other and therefore their voice, recorded from the respective microphone, must not be played back.
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+1 here,
need this function badly. hopefully not behind a paywall. but then again If i need it badly i should be willing to pay right?! anyway ill be using VDO ninja until this becomes a thing for zoom.
This can not be done.
Reason: To be able to mute (for yourself) Zoom participants Zoom would have to stream audio from esch single participant INFIVIDUALLY to you which is a massive load which is badcially unhandable (think of hundreds of participants).
Zoom instead only sends ONE stream to you that combines all feeds pre-mixed IN ONE STREAM.
It only works the other way round where people can mute themselves globally (or muted by admin). In that case your audio is not mixed to the stream that is sent out.
(Wonder why Zoom never pointed this out in this thread in four years).
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Apparently, Skype has had this feature for years, so “This can not be done” might not be an accurate response.
source: Reddit r/Zoom thread “www•reddit•com/r/Zoom/comments/m5uoat/comment/hmo95tw/”
If I am not mistaken, this can only be done by the host of a call meaning that the audio of that person will be blocked for everybody. That is a completely different thing compared with the possibility for everybody on a call muting single participants.
It says on Microsoft’s website:
"Mute or unmute the audience in a Skype for Business meeting
If you’re a presenter, you can mute or unmute meeting participants, individually or as a group, to eliminate background noise."
So I stand by what I have outlined.
Jitsi has this feature. We like Zoom better for multiple reasons, but are sometimes forced to use Jitsi for this specific feature. You can adjust each participant’s individual volume.