Live Events Unmute Presenters
Currently the producer have the ability to mute a presenter but can't unmute him, it would be nice to have for a full control and fluid experience.
Jonatan Narvaez
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Anonymous
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This is a MUST - and a serious reason to look elsewhere unless Microsoft adds this feature. Others already mentioned this, but as a producer, I often need to mute others for echo or fidgeting, but then they don't realize they've been muted. Please please please add this.
And I agree with others mentioning privacy issues; it's a non-issue because the presenters KNOW and trust the producer to handle their audio correctly.
Again, I repeat - an absolute must.
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Andrew T
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This is an important feature that is currently lacking. I understand from a privacy perspective that this may not be possible in meetings, but the producer role becomes quite useless when we can't unmute someone after throwing them on the screen in a live event.
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Anonymous
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This would really help with our public meetings
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Anonymous
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Please can we have this, it would be great for managing the meetings we have.
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Anonymous
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We had an example this week, a key presenter was muted for an entire slide. As we were all remote there was little we could do. 1500 attendees.
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Anonymous
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I agree, would like to be able to both mute and un-mute people as a presenter.
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Anonymous
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This would be a huge help to make live events more useful. Sometimes presenters are doing something with there hands and it means they have to completely stop to unmute. I get the security implications of this in a normal meeting, but with Live Events, this would be really helpful.
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Anonymous
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This REALLY needs to be fixed. Until we can get the unmute feature other live streaming tools will be able to produce a more professional experience than Teams Live Events!
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Anonymous
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Agreed, we have run into many issues with this during live events and giving the producers control over muting AND unmuting would be extremely helpful (and makes sense)
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Sarah Cran
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Absolutely on this - Every time we run a live event we inevitably end up with a presenter who starts talking while on mute. It would be a much more seamless experience if we were able to unmute a presenter prior to their allocated talking time.
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Luke
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This needs to happen. It is so shortsighted that it's not already a feature. I usually use other Webcast platforms, where you can mute and unmute the presenters, but would like to move over to Teams Live Events- the lack of this function is really not selling the experience to me or my clients. A producer should have full control over all aspects.
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Ryan
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Come on Microsoft. Soooo many people are needing this. This is basic and obvious and should have been standard. I work for a very large company that is using Teams Live for all meetings now that everyone is having to work from home. I'm now lobbying that we ditch Microsoft and get Zoom because they seem to take corporate meetings much more seriously and make the changes their customers need. Producers should have the ability to mute and unmute presenters.
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James Legault
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As our company is putting on more and more Live Events, we are increasingly having issues with presenters not unmuting themselves. This would be a welcome change.
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Mason Graff
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The more we are doing Live Event in our org the more we are having issues with presenters not unmuting themselves. It woudl be great for the flow of the meeting if Producers could unmute presenters.
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Anonymous
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Please fix this!!
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Alex Fafinski
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Yes, as a producer this is a huge problem. Also only the audio from the live presenter should go out, not the entire group so you can prep people and give countdowns ect.
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Paul Ahern
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Agree, a big weakness with Live events. I can mute everyone but cannot tell you how many times a presenter has gone live and muted.
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Jeremy Strachan
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Totally agree - something that would be perfectly normal in a broadcast environment...
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David Creedon
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It is crazy that a producer can mute all presenters but then has no ability to unmute any of them !...how was this ever designed like this ? We had an issue where our CEO got muted...and I as the producer couldn't unmute...very embarrassing and frustrating.
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William Daniels
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The producers need the ability to unmute a presenter. Presenters are often too busy or nervous to remember to unmute themselves when entering a stream.
Regarding privacy concerns, Live Events are less like a meeting and more like a show. Producers have always had control of sound panel, including microphone muting, when producing a show.