If you are working from home with troublesome kids or having a conference call in a loud place it can be really distracting and the background noise will definitely provoke stress.
I have found the best and cheapest solution to prevent background noise during your calls.
Its actually a software called Krisp with an algorithm so smart you won't be able to trick, so its going to solve a very real problem. This company has actually developed a technology so we don't have to go out and buy a noise cancelling microphones or noise canceling speakers to achieve those results.
What is krisp ?
Krisp is a productivity tool for mac or iOS, Windows, and a chrome extension which eliminates background noise during calls in real time, it supports over 800 apps. This program is actually a virtual microphone and/or speaker that sits between your physical microphone/speaker and the app used on your system for conferencing . It mutes the noise like (dog barking, crying kids, etc) going from your background to the call participants.
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Is this new ? And how does it work ?
If you are not familiar with noise cancelling microphones or speakers then i probably should've start with this, its simple, they are similar to noise cancelling headphones which cancel all the noise surrounding the actual goal of what you're listening to, so if you activate the noise cancellation on those headphones it will block all of the surrounding noises even if you're on a plane.
Well this app works exactly the same way except virtually .and its the microphone who has the ability to cancel the noise so your interlocutor can only hear you without any indiserable voices like a dog barking or a baby crying or if there is a music playing in the background.
It also works in the the other way around so if you have a noise canceling speakers and want to hear someone talk for instance your boss and you want to just hear their voice this will be useful as well.
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So this will be helpful in your professional life, it's made for remote professionals like when you're working from home and you have kids in the background , it's built for freelancers, for podcast, its built for gamers and streamers it has been amazing to use it on discord, you can use this with Zoom, Google Meets, Google Voice, Teams, Skype, and everything your microphone can work with. This is perfect for businesses wether you have remote teams or call centers, if you're a salesman you don't want to have the person you're trying to sell to getting annoyed if there are other sales reps in the background you risk loosing your lead if there is noise or screams and this will affect your professionalism.
The pricing structure
Now we'll be talking about the fees, so in a nutshell there is the free, the pro and the teams both at 3.33$/mo which is basically free and at last the enterprise. in the free version you will be limited to 120min a week so if you need this occasionally the free would be enough, but if you work remotely full time you may want to upgrade to the pro version for only 3.33$/ and you an still have the pro version if you invite friends, with each new invited friend you unlock Pro for 2 months, while your friend gets Pro for 1 month , the same price goes for the teams version but this one is made for remote teams and teams working in an open office. For the enterprises and call centers you will have to contact sales for pricing, you can find more details about pricing here.
So how exactly does this technology works basically the krisp microphone is like a filter that takes over your real microphone and gives the listener exactly what they need to hear absent the noise.
the same thing goes for the speaker part except in revers, so if you are receiving a call frome somone in a loud envirement for ex outside on the road with a lot of screaming and car noise or in a croud Krisp speaker will take over your phisical speakers as i mensioned before, so whene you turn on the ‘mute noise‘ toggle for speakers it filters the call to just give you exactly what you need to hear in real time.
If you are worried about security and your privacy, don't, because the filter we talked about works inside your laptop not online so there is no recording of your conversations that can be hacked from a server on the internet.
Here you can find a useful guide on how you can setup the krisp app on mac, windows or the chrome extension and how to use it with different applications (Skype, Talkdesk Callbar, TeamSpeak, XSplit, Mumble Steam BlueJeans Adobe Audition Uberconference Loom Webex OBS Studio Slack Microsoft Teams, Audacity, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, RingCentral, Google Meet, FaceTime, Discord, Zoom) and you also need an account so you can sign up here.
Why should you use it ?
Well in terms of competiton i dont think you will find a better alternative for Krisp especially for free and in real time even the paid version is really affordable and to be honest its worth it.
So i think you should use Krisp for recording video courses and webinars its a great tool easy to use, when working from home so you will concentrate on your meetings without interruptions.
