In March Microsoft promised to ship Push to Talk walkie-talkie kind performance to their Microsoft Teams app on cellular, saying:
Walkie Talkie
Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk expertise that permits clear and safe voice communication over the cloud, permits groups to speak immediately and all the time keep on the identical web page. This native built-in app in Teams turns worker or company-owned Android smartphones and tablets right into a walkie-talkie, decreasing the variety of units workers should carry and decreasing prices for IT. Available in GCC.
The characteristic was initially solely out there to authorities customers however a brand new Microsoft 365 roadmap entry suggests will probably be coming to everybody within the close to future, with Microsoft saying:
Microsoft Teams: Paging on Teams telephones
Like conventional walkie talkies, the Walkie Talkie app in your Teams telephones gives an on the spot push-to-talk (PTT) communication to your crew. It lets you press and maintain a button to talk to your crew, and launch the button to hear. Users can join with their crew utilizing the Teams channels.
General Availability, Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant), Microsoft Teams Android
Release: September 2021.
The characteristic will ship a voice message to your channel if you press the microphone within the walkie-talkie tab.
On rugged units, firms could add a devoted {hardware} button to make the characteristic extra accessible.
Look ahead to the roll-out of the characteristic within the subsequent eight weeks.
