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Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

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Re: Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging

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Post by nicd »

buro9 wrote: post #56
samcheng wrote: post #46

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Hmm. We natively record and transcribe many meetings via Meet. Maybe it’s a function of the plan we’re on? I wouldn’t want “autorecord” though - it’s better for culture and rapport to not feel like every conversation is “on the record.”

Well I'd hope that's a property of a specific meeting and not all meetings, but team weeklies where those not present want to catch up, and the recording is only going to those regular attendees (members of a specific Google Group)... sure, that's a thing we would like to have.

Not sure what Gong's pricing is, but we evaluated a few different notetakers and settled on https://fireflies.ai/. $18 / month gets a recording and summary sent out to all invitees to the calendar invite, uploaded into Hubspot, etc. Very valuable for our sales calls.

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Post by emptysongglass »

unixhero wrote: post #55
Rastonbury wrote: post #37

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It gets complicated when half a team is in the office taking the same call from their desks, easier for Gitlab because they are full remote

This does not complicate matters.

It does in ways you likely don't understand. At large enterprises with satellite offices, most of us don't want to sit at our desks and annoy our coworkers who are also in-office by taking calls at our desks. That leaves meeting rooms, which are at a premium.

Full single device for everyone would mean either everyone loudly shouting at their desks from within their noise canceling headphones or the company giving everyone an office with a door. As even Google doesn't do this for their employees, this is the next best thing we can do to save the sanity of our coworkers and respect remote colleagues dialing in by including them in a shared room meeting.

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Post by _joel »

djtango wrote: post #41
benterix wrote: post #34

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Rules are meant to be broken. I've participated in many meetings where, for one reason or another, some participants couldn't join in person. Making it easier - for them and for us - is a technical challenge, and not something to be decided by an arbitrary rule.

Remote is extreme and is still not the norm. It is easier to baseline on things optimised for remote then relax than try to shoehorn in person into remote which is then doomed to fail. I worked for a company that was headquartered in London and had satellite offices in Spain and Germany. After we all went remote during the pandemic the EU offices said they felt so much more engaged with the rest of the company becaus…

"Remote is extreme". Have you seen how many jobs on the boards are remote?

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Post by bagels »

parpfish wrote: post #30
bagels wrote: post #2

I'm more interested in cancelling regular feedback from one laptop in the meeting.

Do you mean audio feedback, or just one user that complains a lot?

I'm talking about when I hear my own voice. It happens when the person I am talking to is using speakers and a microphone, and my voice is picked up by their speakers and transmitted back to me. I didn't know this was controversial.

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Post by okdood64 »

andai wrote: post #52

Sounds imprrssive, but also overengineered? Don't headphones solve the same problem? Though I guess in a hybrid meeting they'd make it harder to hear the people in the room. (But you'd hear them through the laptop, normally? I guess there would be an uncanny delay...)

Who's wearing headphones in a meeting? Good luck trying to get people to do that.

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Post by bagels »

e_carra wrote: post #4
bagels wrote: post #2

I'm more interested in cancelling regular feedback from one laptop in the meeting.

Not sure if this would solve your problem, but have you tried companion mode?

I think the other party would need to try it? I'm using a headset, the feedback is coming from the other party.

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Post by dtx1 »

We use google meet internally where i work but i often have to work with external companies using teams, zoom and whatever else. Google Meet just works, all day, everyday for us (barring a fucked up client audio setup...) and this is such a sweet feature we've struggled with, I genuinely look forward to testing this

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Post by worthless-trash »

rav wrote: post #27
aniviacat wrote: post #22

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Is it possible to use Google Meet without telling Google your phone number? I know that it's possible to use Zoom and Teams anonymously. But for Google Meet, I assume providing a (verified) phone number is required.

You can use it with just a personal Google account - does that require a phone number? Alternatively, someone with a Google account can create a meeting ( https://meet.new ) and send you the link, which you can join without any Google account at all.

I have never given my work my number, and yet meet seems to work for all my work meetings.

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Post by djtango »

pquki4 wrote: post #60
djtango wrote: post #41

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Remote is extreme and is still not the norm. It is easier to baseline on things optimised for remote then relax than try to shoehorn in person into remote which is then doomed to fail. I worked for a company that was headquartered in London and had satellite offices in Spain and Germany. After we all went remote during the pandemic the EU offices said they felt so much more engaged with the rest of the company becaus…

"doomed to fail" Its definitely doomed to fail if CEOs want you to think it's doomed. Your comment is handwavy with words like "feel" and "bad habits". There are real issues with remote work, but there are also ways to mitigate the downsides of it. It's easier for some people to just dismiss the idea entirely and pretend that in-office work is the better alternative without any problems. I have definitely seen that h…

Yes - my response was to the rejection that rules are to be broken.

I have worked there fully remote jobs and the ones that did it best fully leaned into being remote.

There is no hard or fast rule, I've been in a team social where I was the only person remote and it still felt relatively natural. I've done a fully remote follow a recipe and cook at home session which was also pretty fun.

I've also been in places that do the bare minimum of what constitutes remote "oh we use Zoom and screenshare" and dictate to people where everyone is cam off. And the difference is night and day.

I think that a little bit of cargo culting wrt remote etiquette is probably a net good thing because I posit many people still don't know what good looks like.

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