Microsoft is employing AI tools so now will help improve Teams audio.
Remember the feeling when during a meeting you have to discuss a project with your colleagues, and you have to wait for them to finish. Because if you point out something it will distort both your voices. Well, this is going to end soon.
Microsoft Teams meetings will be less annoying due to the slew of modifications to the service.
The video conferencing platform has announced a series of changes. Most of these improvements are geared at enhancing the audio quality of Microsoft Teams meetings through the use of AI and machine learning.
The latest updates are the product of a machine learning model built on 30,000 hours of voice samples. These include most needed changes like echo cancellation and better adapting audio in bad acoustic conditions. Also, the most welcomed one will be allowing users to talk and hear at the same time without pauses.
Microsoft Teams audio
First and foremost, the company claims that its AI can now distinguish between sound from a speaker and the user’s voice. It will resolve a typical issue in which a microphone is too close to a speaker, causes a sound loop between input and output devices, and renders an echo.
Microsoft Office 365 parent company claims that Teams can eliminate the echo without restricting voice or hindering the group conversations during meetings.
When individuals conduct calls in large rooms their speech sometimes echoes around slightly. For them, Teams is employing a machine learning model to translate collected audio signals. It will appear as though users are speaking into a close-range microphone.
These improvements also aim to reduce disruptions and individuals speaking over each other during calls. Teams’ calls will no longer have an unpleasant echo when one person talks over another, it will allow the conversation to flow much more effortlessly.
Microsoft says the new updates build on AI-powered features it has already released, such as background noise suppression. It is also making machine learning-based noise suppression the default option for Teams users across all platforms.
Pandemic demonstrated the significance of communication and collaboration platforms like Microsoft Teams in maintaining safe, connected, and productive official tasks. We should hope that in addition to adding new features and improvements to Teams, Microsoft will keep looking for innovative ways to make online calls and meetings more intuitive, robust, and efficient.
