Unmute

How it is used

On video calls, usually refers to enabling your microphone so others can hear you. Check whether the control affects your microphone or the sound you hear.

Example sentences

1. Please unmute your microphone before you explain the changes to the delivery plan.

   The participant is ready to speak, but the microphone must transmit sound first.

2. I will unmute after the construction noise outside my window stops.

   Keeping the microphone muted temporarily prevents unwanted noise from reaching the meeting.

Common collocations

• unmute your microphone
• remember to unmute

Related terms

• muteTo switch off your own microphone, or someone else's, on a call so that the others cannot hear any sound from it.
• conference callA phone or online call in which three or more people in different places talk together at the same time.

More terms: Phone and Video Calls

• get back to
• share your screen
• hold on
• go ahead
• put through
• break up
• voicemail
• speak up
• drop off
• hop on a call
• hang up
• call back