> Zoom IMHO has nailed the workflow for clicking an autodial link on my phone, joining the call by video on my laptop and having the participant pin appear on the screen quick enough that I can type it right as the automated voice prompt asks for it on the phone
This sounds inconvenient? For Meet, I click the invite link from my calendar, email, or meeting list for an upcoming meeting list, or from the slack or other message a coworker sent me for the adhoc one, and I'm in, with video and audio going through the one device.
You have the same option on Zoom. But then, just as in any other videoconferencing app, your audio is now VoIP - an acronym which stands for "heavily compressed, choppy and muffled"
Dialing in from your phone increases the audio quality for everyone by a factor of approximately ∞
Are phone networks better where you're from? The audio compression on the phone network renders the sound quality/clarity inferior to a built in laptop mic in my experience.
I just have had a totally different experience then, I have to say. I associate people dialing in from their phones with high levels of background noise, both hissing static and actual background noise, and clipping/lost words. This includes coworkers in Europe and california.
After all, the listener is receiving over VoIP, so you've got phone network issues layered on voip issues.
Just want to add that I've had this exact experience with people using phone audio with the added variant of them losing cellular signal every few minutes.
Weird, here (france) I made all my family's calls go through VoIP and voice clarity increased a thousandfold, it feels like going from a 1930 radio station to a CD
What’s the preferred service in France for that? Do you mean you set it up yourself with a particular SIP/IAX vendor, or just switched to free.fr or one of those providers?
You can also join the Meet in a browser, then under the option memu (...) is “Use a phone for audio”. In that user flow the meeting calls your phone and when you join your devices are linked such that the command-d hot key in the browser will mute/unmute your phone mic.
I've only used Meet once, actually last week, and it took me significantly longer to get on the call because I couldn't start dialing until after clicking "use a phone for audio" whereas with Zoom I call before even joining the call on my computer
Maybe it was user error, but it felt much slower to get everything up and running
This sounds inconvenient? For Meet, I click the invite link from my calendar, email, or meeting list for an upcoming meeting list, or from the slack or other message a coworker sent me for the adhoc one, and I'm in, with video and audio going through the one device.