Systems and methods for seamless teleconferencing

An apparatus comprising:

• a memory;
• a network interface configured to enable network communications to communicate with multiple devices participating in an audio call;
• and
• a processor, wherein the processor is configured to perform operations on behalf of a conference server that is supporting the audio call among the multiple devices, the operations including:
• selecting a first microphone for the audio call, the first microphone associated with a first device of the multiple devices that are in proximity to one another and are each connected to the audio call;
• selecting a first speaker for the audio call, the first speaker associated with one of the multiple devices;
• inhibiting audio associated with all microphones and speakers associated with the multiple devices except for the first microphone and the first speaker;
• and
• switching to a second microphone associated with a second device of the multiple devices after a period of time by:
• comparing a time-based drift between audio streams of the first microphone and of the second microphone to an alignment buffer size;
• aligning, based on the comparing, the audio streams of the first microphone and of the second microphone,
• inhibiting audio associated with the first microphone after the aligning, and
• enabling audio associated with the second microphone.

An apparatus comprising:

• at least one microphone including a first microphone;
• at least one speaker;
• a network interface configured to enable network communications to communicate with a conference server to participate in an audio call supported by the conference server with multiple devices;
• and
• a processor configured to perform operations for a first device, the operations including:
• selecting the first microphone of the first device for the audio call, the first device determined to be in proximity to the multiple devices, wherein audio associated with all microphones associated with the multiple devices except for the first microphone are inhibited;
• and
• inhibiting audio associated with the first microphone when audio for the audio call is switched to a second microphone associated with a second device of the multiple devices, wherein audio streams of the first microphone and of the second microphone are aligned after a period of time before being switched based on a comparison of a time-based drift between the audio streams of the first microphone and of the second microphone to an alignment buffer size.