{"id":13391,"date":"2022-08-29T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/29\/google-meet-is-stealing-zooms-trick-to-easily-unmute\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:39:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:39:22","slug":"google-meet-is-stealing-zooms-trick-to-easily-unmute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/29\/google-meet-is-stealing-zooms-trick-to-easily-unmute\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Meet is stealing Zoom\u2019s trick to easily unmute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/28\/23325575\/google-meet-stealing-zoom-trick-easily-unmute-push-to-talk<\/a>
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As Google carries out the needlessly complex process of combining both the Meet and Duo<\/a> apps, now it\u2019s throwing a feature copied from Zoom in the mix. In an update on the Google Workspace blog<\/a>, the company announced that Google Meet will soon give you the ability to unmute yourself by holding down the spacebar and to mute yourself again by releasing it.<\/p>\n

If you frequently use Zoom, this feature might sound a lot like its push-to-talk feature<\/a> \u2014 and that\u2019s because it\u2019s essentially the same thing. Zoom obviously didn\u2019t revolutionize this feature (we have walkie-talkies to thank for that), but it conveniently makes it available during video conferences, which comes in handy whenever you want to chime in during a meeting but don\u2019t want to stay unmuted for long. Cisco\u2019s Webex has a similar capability<\/a>, while Microsoft Teams lets you unmute using a Ctrl + Spacebar shortcut<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Google says it’ll start rolling out its own version of the shortcut to all Workspace users on September 9th, but it could take up to 15 days for you to see it. Once it arrives, it won\u2019t be turned on by default, so you\u2019ll have to enable it from Google Meet\u2019s settings.<\/p>\n