Hybrid Meeting Audio

[MrFlark]

We run hybrid meetings. We have tried two set ups.

1. A set of 10 conference room microphones for each in person participant. There is a receiver and speaker that plugs into the hosts laptop. The speaker picks up the feed from each of the 10 microphones and allows the in person participants can hear the Zoom people. For the in person audience we have a sound system in the room with microphones. The problem is the in house system causes an echo for the Zoom participants. We tried it once without the in room sound system. That was great for the Zoom participants, but the in person audience could not hear.
2. We have a directional microphone that we would put in front of one of the loudspeakers in the auditorium. That worked fair for the Zoom people, but it picked up a lot of the other room noise and there was an echo.

I we are able to put a Bluetooth transmitter on the output on our sound system can Zoom accept a Bluetooth signal as a microphone or audio source?

[DanielEndy]

For a modest room without too many people I recommend a Bluetooth speaker with microphone. It will cancel out its own output so you won’t get feedback on the microphone. 

when the microphone picks up the speaker output  you get feedback

[lauried99]

 Do all of the zoom participants select the bluetooth device as their audio and speaker or do you only need on person on the zoom call (maybe the facilitator) to select the bluetooth speaker?