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One time I worked at a zoom competitor, and our team got to prototype a "detect if these people are in the same room as each other" feature for dealing with ech
by montroser 11mo ago
One time I worked at a zoom competitor, and our team got to prototype a "detect if these people are in the same room as each other" feature for dealing with echo cancellation etc, where everyone's laptop would emit a unique high frequency, and everyone's laptop would listen for other frequencies. Of course it worked in pristine conditions and fell down in the real world. But it was a fun experiment...
- ctkhn 11mo agoPeople need to learn manners, nobody should be using video calling without headphones. It's insane whenever someone joins and we hear all their background, feedback of whoever is speaking, etc as if nobody has ever told them to mute or stop using speaker in their life.
- pinkgolem 11mo ago... I mean Google meet handles it pretty well
- carstenhag 11mo agoThis is about 3 people in a meeting room joining with their laptops, without a meeting room audio setup (or it being bad)
- krisoft 11mo ago> People need to learn manners, nobody should be using video calling without headphones. OK? it still sucks even with headphones. Imagine the following scenario: You are in a meeting using your headphones as you suggest. A coworker a few seats away from you are in the same meeting using their own headsphones. When they talk you hear their real voice reach your ears first (this happens with even the best noise canceling headphones to some extent) and then you hear their voice with some delay from the meeting. This is not about manners or headphones. Better meeting software identifies when this is happening and they suppress the streamed voice of your coworker just for you.
- thmsths 11mo agoThis is a great answer. But I would add that while a technical solution is welcomed, an organizational one could help too: why are multiple people in the same meeting joining from nearby desks instead of a conference room?
- jalk 11mo agoBecause all the conference rooms were already booked.
- pavel_lishin 11mo agoThere's a downside to the conference room angle; the camera is far away, and the image of the room occupies the same amount of space on my monitor as the seven other heads in the call who are calling in remotely. So unless I know the voice of everyone in the conference room, I have no idea who's speaking at any given point unless they're also gesticulating wildly.
- DANmode 11mo agoOh, I know this one: your team’s too big.
- foo-bar-bat 11mo agoI was in such a meeting yesterday where multiple participants were required by law to be each in same meeting from different computers in same room and with their mics and speakers on, and same law prevents use of conference room camera speakers and mic. There was a constant and annoying audio echo for everyone.
- spike021 11mo agosounds like how Cisco Teams/Webex could detect if you're in a certain meeting room using an ultrasonic frequency.
- everdrive 11mo ago>where everyone's laptop would emit a unique high frequency, This sounds like an awful idea. https://www.science.org/content/article/sounds-you-cant-hear-can-still-hurt-your-ears https://www.science.org/content/article/sounds-you-cant-hear...
- dewey 11mo agoThat's what Google Meet does too: https://support.google.com/meet/answer/14263133?hl=en-NZ https://support.google.com/meet/answer/14263133?hl=en-NZ
- tylervigen 11mo agoMicrosoft Teams does this: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsoftteamspublicpreview/now-in-public-preview-ultrasound-howling-detection-in-teams-meetings/3752205 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/microsofttea...