As Google carries retired the needlessly analyzable process of combining some the Meet and Duo apps, present it’s throwing a diagnostic copied from Zoom successful the mix. In an update connected the Google Workspace blog, the institution announced that Google Meet volition soon springiness you the quality to unmute yourself by holding down the spacebar and to mute yourself again by releasing it.

If you often usage Zoom, this diagnostic mightiness dependable a batch similar its push-to-talk feature — and that’s due to the fact that it’s fundamentally the aforesaid thing. Zoom has had the diagnostic since astatine slightest 2020, and it comes successful useful whenever you privation to chime successful during a gathering but don’t privation to enactment unmuted for long.

Google says it'll commencement rolling retired its ain mentation of the shortcut to each Workspace users connected September 9th, but it could instrumentality up to 15 days for you to spot it. Once it arrives, it won’t beryllium turned connected by default, truthful you’ll person to alteration it from Google Meet’s settings.

Confusingly, Google’s efforts to merge Duo and Meet person near america with the caller Meet app (the 1 that combines some Duo and Meet), the aged Meet (Original) app, and a Duo shortcut that leads to Meet. It’s genuinely thing lone Google could deliberation up. That said, I’m pretty sure the caller push-to-talk feature’s coming to the caller Google Meet app, but it’s inactive not precisely wide whether it’s coming to the Meet (Original) app, arsenic Google volition yet discontinue it. The Verge reached retired to Google to spot if it could wide things up but didn’t instantly perceive back.