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I think about this a lot having been both on corporate meetings and voice chat in WoW raids and how much any sort of teleconferencing software is missing stuff

I think about this a lot having been both on corporate meetings and voice chat in WoW raids and how much any sort of teleconferencing software is missing stuff like: * Mandatory PTT so you don't have people's eating/talking/background noise * Priority speaker (or being able to turn individual people down) * The ability to leave the main voice chat for a moment and then return. Its so much worse than what I got with vent or mumble or discord.

Nextgrid 3y ago
> Mandatory PTT so you don't have people's eating/talking/background noise This can somewhat be mitigated by providing people with proper headsets. Every company should issue good, convenient wireless headsets. Emphasis on "convenient" so that people aren't tempted to substitute them with worse-sounding options.
- DiggyJohnson 3y ago
  I disagree that this mitigates the quoted section from GP, even if I agree with you in general. The benefit of mandatory push to talk cannot be significantly mitigated by any current headset system. There is a "habit of intentionality" (for lack of a better term) that comes with mandatory PTT that is missing in corporate meeting culture. It only takes one bad apple or VP with mad mic hygiene to throw away all the benefits of company-supplied noise-cancelling-dynamic-threshhold-sensing microphones.
scaryclam 3y ago
Being able to have individuals at a different volume is something I almost desperately want in work meetings. I'd also love something that would allow me to be in several "breakout" chats at once, but not silence everything, just allow me to turn some rooms down and mute myself in them while I interact in another. Bonus if there's an indicator of how much activity there is in the non-focused ones so I can see if something may need attention, or if everyone in it is silent, and not need to listen in. Most conferencing software seems to treat meetings like individual entities, which works fine when they are just scheduled meetings, but isn't great when you have several groups to work with at once. Being able to have a team know you're in another chat and be able to say "Hey scaryclam, we found something, can you drop into the conversation for a minute", from their chat would be awesome in something like an incident call.

Nextgrid 3y ago

> Mandatory PTT so you don't have people's eating/talking/background noise This can somewhat be mitigated by providing people with proper headsets. Every company should issue good, convenient wireless headsets. Emphasis on "convenient" so that people aren't tempted to substitute them with worse-sounding options.

DiggyJohnson 3y ago
I disagree that this mitigates the quoted section from GP, even if I agree with you in general. The benefit of mandatory push to talk cannot be significantly mitigated by any current headset system. There is a "habit of intentionality" (for lack of a better term) that comes with mandatory PTT that is missing in corporate meeting culture. It only takes one bad apple or VP with mad mic hygiene to throw away all the benefits of company-supplied noise-cancelling-dynamic-threshhold-sensing microphones.

scaryclam 3y ago

Being able to have individuals at a different volume is something I almost desperately want in work meetings. I'd also love something that would allow me to be in several "breakout" chats at once, but not silence everything, just allow me to turn some rooms down and mute myself in them while I interact in another. Bonus if there's an indicator of how much activity there is in the non-focused ones so I can see if something may need attention, or if everyone in it is silent, and not need to listen in. Most conferencing software seems to treat meetings like individual entities, which works fine when they are just scheduled meetings, but isn't great when you have several groups to work with at once. Being able to have a team know you're in another chat and be able to say "Hey scaryclam, we found something, can you drop into the conversation for a minute", from their chat would be awesome in something like an incident call.