Krisp strips out background noise from desktop voice and video chats
Summary
In January, I described a demonstration, which Qualcomm offered at its Snapdragon Summit, that showed how AI could outperform multiple microphone-based noise cancellation with only a single microphone. Krisp works with a wide array of conference and video calling services and takes advantage of the open device architecture of the PC and Mac to stand in as an audio input or output. They are working on an alternative solution since the major mobile operating systems dont allow choosing virtual speakers and microphones as MacOS and Windows do. Even as they reach beyond voice calls, the conferencing apps that Krisp works with will surely pursue or license options; over time, this kind of enhancement may be baked into the operating system or supporting chipsets. AI could reduce the tech in your smartphone While the new frontier of intelligent object detection can create amazing eye candy, it is also tackling the decades-old problem of simply being heard in a crowd.