Microsoft Teams to Get Improved AI-Based Noise Suppression in November 2020

Oct. 19, 2020

Weeks afterGoogle Meetstartedrolling out real-time noise cancellationfor G Suite customers,Microsofthas announced animproved AI-based noise suppression feature for Teamsthat the company says will be even better than the current algorithm at removing unwelcome background noise. In an official roadmap added last week, the company said that the new real-time noise suppression algorithm will automatically remove unwanted noise during meetings, thereby enhancing call-quality.

Explaining the workings of the new technology, Microsoft said:“AI-based noise suppression works by analyzing an individual’s audio feed and using specially trained deep neural networks to filter out the noise and retain only the speech signal.  This is an update to the existing noise suppression. Users will now have have control over how much noise suppression they want. The “High” setting is new and will suppress more background noise”.

Real-time noise suppression in Microsoft Teams was first rolled out back in March as part of a massive ‘3rd Anniversary Update’ that brought a number of other cool features, including background blur, optimized playback in poor connectivity, and more. According to the company, it works by analyzing an individual’s audio feed and uses specially trained deep neural networks to filter out noise and retain only the speech signal.

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