The worst is that one person that seems to exist on every team whose microphone sounds like it's being filtered through Satan's asshole, and they do nothing to attempt to improve the situation no matter how many times you tell them their audio is incomprehensible.

Your company should provide better audio equipment for those users.

They do, this guy insists on using his phone to join Zoom calls

I believe there are ways to disable phone for Zoom calls ... but that needs buy-in (you can disable audio conferencing, and say it's for "security reasons").

Surely a manager directly approaching the individual and saying “don’t do that” is a better approach?

99.9% of these problems could be solved by a manager doing their job, but that's the problem.

Why not to connect an external USB mic to a desired smartphone?

My brother is hard of hearing and extremely disillusioned about his workplace, but somehow he managed to bulldoze the team. The last time he told me that he has a separate captioning software running to Zoom meeting audio. This seems to work so well that he started to ignore running Zoom meetings and continued working and after the meeting he reads the transcripts. He said: „My colleagues are all complete bozos and most of the time what they utter is irrelevant.“

I find this frighteningly awesome and blasé.

> Very few people speak clearly enough for accurate captioning.

If this is true of most people, then maybe the finger of blame should not point at the people. Software sucks. That's why we all have jobs.

Hard of hearing as well. Personally, I have found Zoom's live captions to be decent to make sense of what's happening. There are some words that are misinterpreted, but the overall context is understood.

My only complaint is that these accessibility features should be available to everyone, not gated to free users. At the start of COVID in 2020, Zoom allowed free users to request captions as well and it took a few followups for my account to be enabled. Not sure if they are still offering it.

> so much good material is available in written form.

Have you found a slide towards video occuring across resources?

I can’t stand video as a learning tool, I want to skim read and focus on the bits that I don’t already know.

I'm annoyed by the number of videos. What's worse is that in most cases what takes 45+ minutes on a video could be read in 5-10 minutes in written form.

Where available I go for the transcripts.

“ Another thing to keep in mind is accessibility increases access for everyone, including non-disabled users. “ Haben Girma: https://habengirma.com/transcripts/wwdc_2016.txt