I've been thinking about the "you're muted" problem in video calls, and imagining a big physical button to mute/unmute without having to stuff around with the p

I've been thinking about the "you're muted" problem in video calls, and imagining a big physical button to mute/unmute without having to stuff around with the particular UI for this particular video product you are using right now. One solution is to mute/unmute at the hardware or system level (some computers already have this, or sometime close), but this then requires you to be unmuted in the software (Zoom), which isn't always under your control. So unless the system-level mute can send a signal to Zoom, or Meet, or Teams, or X, then it defeats the purpose. What would be nice would be an agreed-upon standard API for muting/unmuting within an application, but that both seems unlikely (as that's not how companies like to do things anymore), and would add to the complexity of things to a point where 'ordinary users' would get confused or stuff things up. I'm at the point where I think a dedicated device for video calls is necessary.