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Allow the users to configure to enable push to talk in group meetings.

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  • Benoît Dardenne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Shortcuts are not a viable workaround. Zoom has this, Discord has this, Teamspeak has this, Google meet has extensions for it. With remote working growing as it does, it's time to implement basic features.

  • James commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If anyone is looking for a workaround in the mean time, I wrote a short autohotkey script that makes push-to-talk work in Teams.

    Autohotkey is a scripting language that can make it easy to remap keyboard buttons to other actions and can be downloaded here (https://www.autohotkey.com/)

    The script works be remapping the Pause/Break key to look if there is a Microsoft Teams window open, swap to it, then send the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut to unmute on the downstroke, then wait for the upstroke to again send the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut to mute again.

    Mute/unmute can be toggled by hitting Shift+Pause/Break.

    The below script should be copied/pasted into a .ahk script file:

    #NoEnv ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
    ; #Warn ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
    SendMode Input ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
    SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir% ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

    SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx

    Pause::
    if WinExist("( \| Microsoft Teams)$")
    {
    WinActivate
    SendInput, {Ctrl down}
    SendInput, {Shift down}
    SendInput, {m}
    SendInput, {Shift up}
    SendInput, {Ctrl up}
    KeyWait, Pause
    WinActivate
    SendInput, {Ctrl down}
    SendInput, {Shift down}
    SendInput, {m}
    SendInput, {Shift up}
    SendInput, {Ctrl up}
    return
    }
    return

    +Pause::
    if WinExist("( \| Microsoft Teams)$")
    {
    WinActivate
    SendInput, {Ctrl down}
    SendInput, {Shift down}
    SendInput, {m}
    SendInput, {Shift up}
    SendInput, {Ctrl up}
    return
    }
    return

  • Antti Kaihola commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please make sure the push-to-talk feature is also added to the Linux (and mac) clients! We have a lot of desktop Linux users, and features tend to lag behind.

  • Suzi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ctrl+shift+M is such an unwieldy way of unmuting in a meeting!

    Too many times the chair of meetings tells people they are on mute which is really annoying (mainly because he isn't giving people enough time to unmute after asking them to speak, but that's a different matter) whilst they fumble around on screen, muttering to themselves about not being able to find the on-screen button, making him think they are trying to talk.

    This would all be solved by just enabling a keyboard key to temporarily unmute.

    I noticed it for the first time in a Zoom meeting today, and honestly, it was transformative. You're lagging behind the competition on this (again).

  • Ibrahim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Push to talk is a much smarter way to communicate with because then people could not talking over the top of each other. so i say yes to push to talk

  • Lars Qvist commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please! Our students are frequently asking for PTT. It is to slow to toggle between the muted and unmuted mic. Unmuted mics are also constantly disturbing during class.

  • JH commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have to agree with the other people that PTT is really one of the most important features TEAMS is missing. And that the current keyboard shortcut to toggle mute is very user unfriendly.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can we have push to talk on desktop or AT LEAST customizable hotkeys for mute? Thanks

  • George Kravchenko commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    So I was there was a brand new meetings window and no one working on that has thought of push to talk would essential to add. ctrl+shift+m toggle is stupid.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    "ctrl + shift + m" is not convenient at all when you need to speak in a group meeting. Please can this feature be added ASAP, everyone is always scrambling for the unmute button with their mouse.

    This should be the basics!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You should add a Push to talk button as a top priority, as in discord a simple single assignable hot key would help out the online school classes by a order of magnitude.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE fast track this feature. This is the only program of this type I've ever seen without a push-to-talk feature (zoom, teamspeak, ventrilo, discord...). Strange that Microsoft would be behind the curve on this.

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