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>MSFT Teams >Allow users to enable push to talk in group meetings >2021-06-01 >Thank you for your continued feedback, we have not forgotten about this ask. T

>MSFT Teams >Allow users to enable push to talk in group meetings >2021-06-01 >Thank you for your continued feedback, we have not forgotten about this ask. The feature remains on our backlog. We will share an update as soon as one is available. >In the meantime, you can try using the keyboard shortcut to toggle mute (Ctrl+Shift+M) It has 3400 votes since 2017(!) https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18837436-allow-users-to-enable-push-to-talk-in-group-meetin https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/su... _____________ and yes, this feature is important because switching between apps just to mute/unmute yourself is terrible experience and this problem has been solved like 2 decades ago or more with PUSH2TALK. It makes gaming or even coding and streaming and talking while having people at home (especially now, during WFH/pandemic) annoying as hell. ___________ The rest I didn't check.

p1necone 5y ago
Yeah I also find it really weird that push to talk only ever surfaces in gaming focused voice chat. It's useful for any situation with more than a couple of people, especially when they're typing while on the call.
- ulzeraj 5y ago
  I think corpos and normies are too polite to call someone out for heavy breathing at the microphone. I remember during my days of wow raiding hearing someone else's background or breathing noise during the raid was not acceptable.
  - tester34 5y ago
    Still, how "corpos and normies" can stand kids as somebody's background? which is something normal during pandemic
  - michaelt 5y ago
    The mute button works fine - if your mouse is free to click it, and the video window is foregrounded, and you don't need to interject at a moment's notice. That doesn't work well for gamers, for obvious reasons.
  - Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
    > someone else's background or breathing noise NVIDIA Broadcast (Previously called RTX Voice) is a godsend for those scenarios. If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out. It is absolutely magical. https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE Sadly, AFAIK, it does require an NVIDIA GPU, but it doesn't need an RTX card. I used it on my GTX 1070 and it worked wonderfully. What's really amazing about it is that you can use it to filter incoming voice audio, so if you have someone in your channel that has tons of background noise or breathing, you can filter it out on your own side.
Aerroon 5y ago
Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well. The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.
- tester34 5y ago
  I think if you'd want to use other button than caps, then sometimes you may be not sure whether you're on or off Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps
  - Aerroon 5y ago
    It actually overrides caps lock behavior so there's no light. It does mean that sometimes I don't know what state it is in. That's why a 2nd keybind to set it to only mute is helpful because it'll reset the state.
- professorsnep 5y ago
  I use toggle mute a lot in Discord, especially on devices where I don't use a mic with a hardware mute, but Teams does not, as far as I have checked, have a customizable keybind for toggle mute that doesn't require you to have the application focused. Which is really annoying, especially when in a meeting and getting asked a question while in another window.
  - Aerroon 5y ago
    Ideally, Windows would give us a customizable keybind to mute your microphone globally. Sadly, that's not the case so you have to get a script to do it.

p1necone 5y ago

Yeah I also find it really weird that push to talk only ever surfaces in gaming focused voice chat. It's useful for any situation with more than a couple of people, especially when they're typing while on the call.

ulzeraj 5y ago
I think corpos and normies are too polite to call someone out for heavy breathing at the microphone. I remember during my days of wow raiding hearing someone else's background or breathing noise during the raid was not acceptable.
- tester34 5y ago
  Still, how "corpos and normies" can stand kids as somebody's background? which is something normal during pandemic
- michaelt 5y ago
  The mute button works fine - if your mouse is free to click it, and the video window is foregrounded, and you don't need to interject at a moment's notice. That doesn't work well for gamers, for obvious reasons.
- Sohcahtoa82 5y ago
  > someone else's background or breathing noise NVIDIA Broadcast (Previously called RTX Voice) is a godsend for those scenarios. If you haven't seen it, it's worth checking out. It is absolutely magical. https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE https://youtu.be/uWUHkCgslNE Sadly, AFAIK, it does require an NVIDIA GPU, but it doesn't need an RTX card. I used it on my GTX 1070 and it worked wonderfully. What's really amazing about it is that you can use it to filter incoming voice audio, so if you have someone in your channel that has tons of background noise or breathing, you can filter it out on your own side.

Aerroon 5y ago

Why isn't a mute toggle a solution? I set up caps lock with autohotkey to be a mute toggle in Windows. It works well. The only complaint with this is that if I'm running multiple voice chats at the same time then I need to use some other keybinds to mute individual applications. Still, for most users this would be more than adequate.

tester34 5y ago
I think if you'd want to use other button than caps, then sometimes you may be not sure whether you're on or off Anyway, I prefer mouse scroll button (mouse3) instead of caps
- Aerroon 5y ago
  It actually overrides caps lock behavior so there's no light. It does mean that sometimes I don't know what state it is in. That's why a 2nd keybind to set it to only mute is helpful because it'll reset the state.
professorsnep 5y ago
I use toggle mute a lot in Discord, especially on devices where I don't use a mic with a hardware mute, but Teams does not, as far as I have checked, have a customizable keybind for toggle mute that doesn't require you to have the application focused. Which is really annoying, especially when in a meeting and getting asked a question while in another window.
- Aerroon 5y ago
  Ideally, Windows would give us a customizable keybind to mute your microphone globally. Sadly, that's not the case so you have to get a script to do it.