Google Meet is stealing Zoom’s trick to easily unmute
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#6304B)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As Google carries out the needlessly complex process of combining both the Meet and Duo apps, now it's throwing a feature copied from Zoom in the mix. In an update on the Google Workspace blog, 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.
If you frequently use Zoom, this feature might sound a lot like its push-to-talk feature - and that's because it's essentially the same thing. Zoom obviously didn't 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't want to stay...