[presenter]: So I'd like to explain a solution for sharing computer sound in Microsoft Teams
for those using an Apple Mac either a laptop or a desktop. The problem at the moment is that
it is not possible to share audio for example a YouTube clip in Microsoft Teams on an Apple Mac
you can do it on PC - there's a tick box for you to share the sound but not on the Mac.
Microsoft are working on this at the moment but in the meantime, this is the solution I've found
using Loopback audio, which is a paid third-party software which allows you to group pieces of audio
from your computer... so gather together various sources and then present those to Microsoft
Teams. So i'll show you how to do that here's the first audio source which is the microphone
I added that by just going to 'Sources' and it was in the audio devices at the bottom.
So there we go, there's the microphone - one problem is it's coming in
as a mono signal on one channel only so if I delete the right channel there
and tell Loopback to route the signal to the right channel as well... there you go...
So let's add the next source which is YouTube which is coming in through Google Chrome
and nothing's coming through at the moment if i go to my YouTube clip some relaxing music
iIm going to play that now and you'll see that it starts to come in on the meters... quite low
level. You can adjust the volume by the way using the Options button there which is very useful
so let's just go back to that now...I'll stop this for the moment but one thing if you were to
use this with Teams at the moment, you wouldn't hear any of the mix because what you need to do
is set up a monitor on the right hand side... so if I mute just get rid of that and add a monitor
so I'm going to use headphones to monitor this, so all I do is select internal speakers plug my
headphones in and i will hear the results of the mix I've just created the one that I've called
"Mix for Teams" so here we are in Microsoft Teams and we're going to select the right audio device
so we can hear the mix we've just set up so if we go to "more actions" and then device settings.
Notice that the speaker is on built-in output that's because I'm going to be using the
headphones and here's the microphone this is what I was talking about...this is how we choose the
Loopback mix we just created so if I click on the down arrow "Mix for Teams" - there it is, select
that and you can see the audio is coming through on those meters... and that's it so if you create
another mix in Loopback that will just appear on the dropdown list so you can set up different
collections of audio...you could use PowerPoint audio ...YouTube anything on your computer. So I
hope that's been useful - please put any questions or comments and yes hope to see you soon.