JULY 2020 PCWorld 25

Video: Google Meet’s ‘denoiser’

noise filtering is shockingly good

Google Meet’s denoiser eliminates everything but the speaker’s voice. BY MARK HACHMAN

G

oogle showed off a live demo

of its new noise-cancellation

feature for Google Meet, and

well, it’s just amazing.

Unfortunately, consumers won’t see it

anytime soon. Google said in late May that

the company would be rolling it out to G

Suite Enterprise and G Suite Enterprise for

Education customers first, starting with web

users and later, mobile users. Google

hasn’t said when, or if, its other messaging

apps would receive it.

Serge Lachapelle, G Suite director of

product management, demoed the new

feature in a video (go.pcworld.com/sgyt)

posted to YouTube on June 8. He also

detailed how the technology worked in a

separate interview (go.pcworld.com/spin)

with VentureBeat.

In the video, Lachapelle shows how

Meet’s new “denoiser” takes common noises

that occur during a call—such as the crinkling

of a potato-chip bag, the clicking of a pen,

and the clinking of a glass—and filters them

IMAGE: GOOGLE