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Microsoft Teams adds spatial audio for more immersive conference calls

An illustration of spatial audio on Microsoft Teams.
Spatial audio is meant to make conference calls sound closer to real-life conversations. | Image: Microsoft

After a few months of testing the feature, Microsoft has widely rolled out spatial audio for its Teams desktop app on Windows and macOS. Similar to what Apple has done with FaceTime, Microsoft’s implementation of spatial audio makes it so that voices of everyone on a call sound like they’re more spread out, with each person having a distinct position based on where they are on screen.

“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,” Microsoft’s Hong Sodoma wrote.

But Microsoft has hit a wall when it…

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