Maybe the next feature they can work on is allowing multiple people to speak simultaneously
Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
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Yeah I feel like with a couple UI tweaks or options Meet would be the best by far. It's just so much more convenient and accessible than the others.
Just in case any Meet engineers are reading... It needs to let me put my self-view right under the webcam lens, so I can stare at myself and still be looking at the camera.
I always turn off self view because it is incredibly distracting.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
> As far as Teams vs. Meet, it seems like Teams is great when you are working with people that have climbed it's learning curve. Can you give one example?
I can give several. Most of them are not Meet specific but how Meets integrates with rest of Google Products. This is actually overall massive problem with Google Workspaces in general IMO. 1) You can call someone in Teams. Sure, Google Chat has "Start Meeting now" but it's very passive. I know some will see this as negative but ringing has massive advantages around UX. 2) Chat, Teams will persist chat after meeting…
Coming from a google meet org I consider the lack of "call someone" a killer feature
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#154Am I the only one surprised that they keep using this blog style as it was 2005?
Blogger is basically abandonware.
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#155I want a simpler feature: Auto-detect people not using headphones, and prevent them from speaking. Until they put some one. Ideally showing them some customisable scolding message. So far, any feedback / echo cancellation I've encountered just makes everybody's life miserable. Degradation to non-duplex voice (because all except the loudest speaker are attenuated down), "seaside noise" effect", etc. This is the reason…
The thing though is that it's entirely possible to have a setup with loud monitoring (e.g. performers on stage with floor wedges to hear the music and themselves) using speakers. It works well with directional dynamics and stage condensers close to your mouth, but fails horribly with the omni ECMs on your laptop/webcam several feet away.
I love my WFH setup with a dynamic right in front of my mouth and have the system properly rung out so I can monitor myself with no feedback. The cartoid pattern greatly reduces the sound coming from the off-axis speakers and the noise gate takes care of the rest. Obviously this isn't for everyone though and good luck having something this in the office unless you have a room with a door.
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#156But when will Google roll out a stand alone app for meet on Windows and MacOS? It couldn't be that hard and it would have better performance then running in the browser.
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Which is why I don't use Meet.
That's exactly the reason I use Meet. I don't want native code execution; I want sandboxed JavaScript code execution.
Yeah downloading an app for video calls feels very skype. And it's a non-starter for me personally given Zoom's history of lying about privacy and encryption.
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#158Odd. Today I was on a Meet with my girlfriend and her audio kept dropping to silence when she would put the phone down and walk around the kitchen. If she spoke loudly enough it would cut back in. As if it was waiting to recognize voice versus ambient noise.
We use Meet a lot, and I'd never noticed that happening before and wondered if it was due to some setting.
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#159A bit off-topic but I'm going to take this opportunity to ask for help. In Zoom, I can share multiple screens/windows at once by CMD + Selecting multiple windows. How do I do that in Google Meet. I want to do a presentation and I want to show/share two separate screens/windows (not monitors) at once.
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#160Meet, to me, is the perfect balance of functionality and simplicity (as an end user). And features like this only make that more apparent. Zoom and Teams always frustrate me, even though they're what I use far more often. It's too bad that video conferencing is largely a game of who has the most boxes checked - IT admins and A/V folk are the ones that need to be convinced, and Meet just doesn't ...meet... their needs
the free version has pretty low bitrate as far as I can tell