Issue
A lot of folks are tired of managing microphone mute/unmute when on teams calls. Since you have to go to teams call and than use a keyboard or hit the microphone icon. That a distraction if you are doing multitasking (which almost everyone is doing).
Solution
Use a universal keyboard shortcut to mute/unmute microphone in teams without going to teams app. Here how we do it:
Step 1
- Open up
Automator
app on your macOS- Keyboard shortcut:
CMD
+Space
and than search forAutomator
- Keyboard shortcut:
- Hot
quick action
document - Hit
Choose
Step 2
Let design the automation so that we can run it using a keyboard shortcut.
- Change the
Workflow receive current
option tono input
- Leave everything else to its default.
- On the left panel, look for the action
Run Applescript
- Double click on it so it moves to the right on your new action panel
- Replace the code in it with the below code
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Microsoft Teams"
activate
tell application "System Events"
keystroke "m" using {shift down, command down}
end tell
end tell
return input
end run
- Go to file on the top-left menu and hit save.
- Give it some name (example
teams-mute
)
Step 3
Let's get to the keyboard shortcut
- Go to
System preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts
- Click services in the left panel and scroll down to look for your service. It should be under the general section.
- Assign a shortcut to it.
- I used
F1
- I used
Troubleshooting
- When you execute the shortcut it might ask you for permission to change the system.
- Provide that permission in
System preferences -> security and privacy
- select
Accessibility
in left panel and make sureAutomator
is present and select in the right right panel.
- Provide that permission in
- If your action is not working than go to
Accessibility
(as mentioned in previous step) section and removeAutomator
and than add it back again using the+/-
buttons
Hope this helps and share your thoughts.
Top comments (1)
It takes like ~2 seconds for the mute/unmute action to complete :(