Recent update to Teams causes beeping in headset when on mute

Anonymous
2021-10-25T14:43:35+00:00

Been using Teams since the start of lockdown with a headset. As of today I am getting a double-beep at about five second intervals (like a hold beep) in the headset when I am muted. This has not happened before and been using same headset for months.

Also note that when I mute / unmute in Teams, the headset now announces "mute on" and "mute off" to me.

This feels like a Teams update has created this "feature" - please turn it off!

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Anonymous
2023-07-18T20:31:30+00:00

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It Works! I can't believe it! The Setting is in Teams.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-11T19:13:35+00:00

    F$%king windows setting https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/udh3dt/headphones_keep_beeping_every_5_seconds_while_on/

    Here's the fix for Windows 10:

    1. Right click the volume button in the start menu and select "Sounds"
    2. Click on the Recording tab, and select your microphone. Click "Properties"
    3. Go to the "Levels" tab and you might see that your headset is muted by default for some reason. Unclick it.

    Here's how to get there in Windows 11:

    1. Right click the volume button in the start menu and select "Sound settings"
    2. Scroll all the way down and select "More sound settings"
    3. Click on the Recording tab, and select your microphone. Click "Properties"
    4. Go to the "Levels" tab and you might see that your headset is muted by default for some reason. Unclick it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-18T11:56:05+00:00

    I'm using a PLT Focus BT headset and the background BEEP-BEEP every 5 sec started after the last Teams auto-update.

    I tried to unpair and re-pair my headset - it DIDN'T help. The BEEP continued.

    WORKAROUND: I have quit (including running in the background) and restarted Teams and the BEEP is gone :-)

    Still tracking the stability of this solution.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-14T13:20:05+00:00

    That is honestly the only 100% work-around I've found. Until we got one of the Shokz wireless adapters. It took some noodling around to to change settings so notifications and phone calls came through the web app instead of the desktop program, but it worked fine after I got it dialed in.

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