Spatial Audio brings an immersive meeting experience to Microsoft Teams, but it won’t work on Bluetooth devices
You won’t miss a thing in the Teams meeting with this neat feature.
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What you need to know
Effective communication is an important component of any virtual meeting, as it ensures everyone is on the same page regarding all the matters discussed. Microsoft has been keen on delivering this experience on its video conferencing platform,Teams, with features likeTogether mode,Live Transcriptions, and more.
And keeping up with this momentum, the company debuted a new feature,Spatial Audio. It’s designed to allow Teams users to follow conversations during meetings easily.
“Teams Spatial Audio aligns the perceived audio location of each participant with their video representation to make it easier for users to track who is speaking, to understand better when multiple speakers are speaking at the same time, and to lower meeting fatigue and cognitive load,” stated Microsoft’s Hong Sodoma in theblog post.
Microsoft shipped Spatial Audio to broad availability for Windows and MacOS clients. However, Teams users will need stereo-capable devices such as wired headsets or stereo-capable laptops to leverage the feature’s capabilities.
Notably, the feature doesn’t ship with support for Bluetooth devices because of protocol limitations. It’s worth noting that next-generation LE Audio with stereo-enabled Bluetooth devices will be supported.
Here are the feature’s limitations as highlighted by Microsoft:
Feature limitations: Spatial Audio
Device support
Infrastructure related
Music mode
Impact to Live Interpretation users
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