Show who is speaking

There are times when it is easy to tell who is speaking – there aren’t a lot of women in my group, so “the female voice” is usually me. My friend Richard is generally the only person with a New Zealand accent on any call (although someone who didn’t grow up in a Commonwealth country may have trouble distinguishing him from the guy from Australia).

And after you work with someone for a while, you learn the voice and lexical nuances of colleagues.

Hello, Is there any setting to automatically show the person who is speaking in the main screen in a meeting?

The rest of the time? I end up pausing the conversation to check who it was that volunteered to serve as my tester and clarify who is going to be getting back to me next week. In a Teams meeting, though, you can quickly tell who is speaking – and respond with a much friendlier “thanks, Jim, for offering to help”.

When you join a Teams meeting, you’ll see up to four large tiles with meeting participants. If there are more than five participants (you don’t show up on your own view!), the remaining people will be represented by smaller images in the lower right-hand corner of the screen.

When someone is speaking, their tile will

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