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Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what me

by ciguy 6y ago

Does this give better sound quality? Because the sound quality on meet (Or is it Hangouts?) has been abysmal for the last few years. I also have no idea what meet actually even is these days. Is it just a rebranded hangouts or did they add something and merge Hangouts in?

leoh 6y ago
It is Google Hangouts oriented for businesses. I would try to reach out (or have your team do it) if you have a business account.
oaiey 6y ago
It is a different product. But I am not so sure about the codecs ;)
izacus 6y ago
I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well. You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
  - izacus 6y ago
    Yeah, I had the honor of using their web app and it's significantly worse in quality than Zoom desktop app or Meet's web UI. The video was laggy, showed less camera frames and the UI itself was not responding well either. Significantly worse experience.
  - qmarchi 6y ago
    There's an asterisk to that. There was a not insignificant chunk of time that Zoom had to disable their web client, which was a pain...
  - CydeWeys 6y ago
    The Zoom web app is atrocious. I've been using it these past few weeks and it's an all-around miserable experience. Google Meet is a much superior product compared to Zoom's web app.
yegle 6y ago
I recently noticed if you are using Chromebook with certain Bluetooth device, you have to switch to use the Chromebook's internal mic, and it magically fixed the sound quality. Still a bug that should be fixed though.
disillusioned 6y ago
Hangouts is rough, but Meet is far better. (Meet used to be called Hangouts Meet, but they're separate products and maintained separately, as they're putting Hangouts out to pasture.) Meet is their conferencing solution for GSuite, now opened up to the public. It's been around for years.

by ciguy 6y ago

leoh 6y ago

It is Google Hangouts oriented for businesses. I would try to reach out (or have your team do it) if you have a business account.

oaiey 6y ago

It is a different product. But I am not so sure about the codecs ;)

izacus 6y ago

I've used it and never noticed bad call quality and it performed pretty much very similar to Zoom. Not needing an installed app is a huge bonus.

londons_explore 6y ago
Zoom doesn't require an app, they just hide the link to use the web version pretty well. You have to click to download the app, then cancel the download, and the link to join via browser appears.
- izacus 6y ago
  Yeah, I had the honor of using their web app and it's significantly worse in quality than Zoom desktop app or Meet's web UI. The video was laggy, showed less camera frames and the UI itself was not responding well either. Significantly worse experience.
- qmarchi 6y ago
  There's an asterisk to that. There was a not insignificant chunk of time that Zoom had to disable their web client, which was a pain...
- CydeWeys 6y ago
  The Zoom web app is atrocious. I've been using it these past few weeks and it's an all-around miserable experience. Google Meet is a much superior product compared to Zoom's web app.

yegle 6y ago

I recently noticed if you are using Chromebook with certain Bluetooth device, you have to switch to use the Chromebook's internal mic, and it magically fixed the sound quality. Still a bug that should be fixed though.

disillusioned 6y ago

Hangouts is rough, but Meet is far better. (Meet used to be called Hangouts Meet, but they're separate products and maintained separately, as they're putting Hangouts out to pasture.) Meet is their conferencing solution for GSuite, now opened up to the public. It's been around for years.