Re:How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
by boogies on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:47PM
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I really like how Jitsi Meet puts the hand raising/lowering button right on the bottom bar, where there's just empty black/white space in Zoom/Google Meet, and not buried inside a menu labeled "Participants" (???), where it's a hassle to access (Zoom).
Re:How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
by llampx on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @04:51PM
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Microsoft Teams has a "raise your hand" function that's pretty handy.
Re:How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
by kooshball on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:42PM
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>Yeah, I wish there was a simple non-verbal option to signal intent-to-talk.
this is a solved problem. webex has had a hand raise feature for a decade now. trivial for google to just copy.
Re:How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
by ghaff on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:35PM
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>At least with video you can kind of tell when someone is waiting to speak by seeing their expression. Audio only is worse (but maybe wouldn't be, if you had good intent-to-speak tools built into the app?)
Which is one good reason to use video. At least with smaller meetings, someone can raise their hand or just look really pained. (Bigger meetings, you probably need to use chat.)
Re:How Google Meet's noise cancellation works
by erichurkman on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @05:35PM
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We rolled out https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nod-reactions-for-... to all of our devices. The quick 'raise hand' button is great for what you're looking for.
I want to just be able to hit my self-view and have it have a big icon on it or something so the person currently speaking (and everyone else) can see that I want to say something. Maybe sort these in chronological order so the speaker can see who wanted to talk first?).
In theory you could do this with a good chat, but for some reason the chat in Zoom and the others is kind of an afterthought and nobody uses it.
One of the reasons I prefer text based chat is multiple people can talk at the same time without needing to deal with interrupting audio. If you can type well, the bandwidth is higher for group communication (and you get a log).
At least with video you can kind of tell when someone is waiting to speak by seeing their expression. Audio only is worse (but maybe wouldn't be, if you had good intent-to-speak tools built into the app?)