Feature Request - Join group call in listen-only mode (without mic)

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
azure

Research direction

Start by reviewing the Azure Communication Services group-call join API and the linked Microsoft Q&A discussion to confirm the current support and constraints. Done means an audience participant can join a group call without a microphone, without a long permission-related delay.

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Description

Bug Needs: triage :mag:

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We need to implement a group call in which most participants are just an audience. Right now, even if a user joins a call with audio muted, they're still asked for microphone permission. If permission is not requested, the join call takes about 20-25 additional seconds to succeed. This is bad user experience.

Describe the solution you'd like
User should be able to join a call seamlessly even without a microphone.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Couldn't find any API that will let me do this. I posted the problem on microsoft Q&A. The reply there says it is not yet supported, and that I should post a request here.

Note
This is a feature-request and not a bug report, but I'm unable to edit the labels.

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