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Push-To-Talk feature

Push-To-Talk feature, so as to not repeatedly press the mic button

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on the backlog  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Thank you for your feedback. This feature is under development and is planned for later this year. 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). For more information on keyboard shortcuts, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-for-microsoft-teams-2e8e2a70-e8d8-4a19-949b-4c36dd5292d2.

You can also follow status on the main UV forum at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18837436. Thanks!

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  • Andreas commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please make sure this works GLOBALY, meaning even if you minimize teams the push to talk hotkey should still work. At least make it an option make it global and I would also like it if you could choose what hotkey to use.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PUSH T TALK LIKE When We press Space The MSTEAMS Should automatically Unmute

    Have this piece of code which my friend built and put in the code:
    var mute
    mute = true
    document.addEventListener('keydown',(k) => {
    if (mute == true && k.code == "Space"){
    document.querySelector("#microphone-button").click()
    mute = false
    }
    })
    document.addEventListener('keyup',(k) => {
    if (mute == false && k.code == 'Space'){
    document.querySelector("#microphone-button").click()
    mute = true
    }
    })

  • Dibyank Darshi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It is very common when participants unmute themselves to speak something and then forget to mute themselves, subsequently noise comes through their mic, disturbing others and it affects the audio of the main speaker as well.
    Introduction of "Push to Talk" feature in which user will just push the icon while speaking and release the icon as soon as they have completed their sentence will improve the overall experience.
    This feature would be easy to add as it doesn't require much of change in the existing setup, I guess.

  • Hushan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This idea can be used holistically, not just in the classroom situation.
    Definitely applicable in business meetings.

    It should be extended to allow the user to define the keys he wants to use, for left or right handed persons. Also could be single key or dual key options, but should be able to do this single handed...

  • Eric commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    To have a push to talk function, meaning only unmuted while pressing a key assigned for the push to talk function. This would help a lot as I constantly mute and unmute myself whenever I need to talk to avoid being noisy in the background while the lecturer is teaching.

  • Jamie Liberty commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also, it would be much easier for our kinder age students vs. trying to mute and unmute themselves.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teams need a P.T.T feature in-case you don't understand what P.T.T is its the ability to mute someone until they press and hold on a key to speak. so when they don't need to speak their microphone is muted.

    this is a feature on quite a few programs and has been in the security trade for many years. its actually been a feature in common hardware communication since 1937. ( thats the year 1937, not the Microsoft version of windows, just in-case you mis-read its a date, a year) speaking of another year. the first request for P.T.T on Teams was actually asked to be added nearly 3 years ago 2017?

    Be about time you got that rolled out.

    K.

    Thanks.

    Bye.

  • Dutch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would fix a lot of the would fix any issues of forgetting to mute or unmute.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, being able to talk privately to one student to give a quick feedback on his work without having to do the all start a meeting and call him in and without leaving the others would be a great feature!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You should make a push to talk feature so that people doesn't have to mute themselves.

  • Thomas Lawford commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    having used discord for a long time it is hard to do any speaking without push to talk. living without push to talk makes me anxious that I'll blurt something stupid out and think that no one will hear because I wasn't holding the key only to find out that everyone heard. it would also be helpful if you could bind the push to talk button to any key

  • Lewis Marrow commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For meetings and live videos Add a "Push to Talk" option that, by default, mutes microphones, but will allow us to speak if we press and hold a certain button.

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