Video conferencing software that allows a participant to mute individual users

Posted by Chris Dutrow on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Chris Dutrow
Published on 2012-09-10T19:22:09Z Indexed on 2012/09/10 21:41 UTC
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Have a few people working in an office and then a few more people working from home.

We would all like to video chat skype-style, but for the people in the office, everything that is said by someone in the same room "echos". The echo is because the hear it one time through the actual air, and then again through their headphones or speakers:

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Unsure of the best way to solve this problem, but one way seems to be to use an application that enables the user to mute audio from another participant. Then the people in the office could mute all audio from other people in the same room, thus removing the echo effect.

Any suggestions or ideas?

Thanks so much!

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