26 PCWorld JULY 2020NEWS GOOGLE MEET’S ‘DENOISER’
out to nearly total silence. The way Meet does
this, Lachapelle explained, is to focus almost
exclusively on the sound of the user’s voice. In
the video, Lachapelle does sound a bit more
faint from time to time, but Meet does a
remarkable job of even eliminating the sound
of clapping and
ruler tapping
from the video.
More
importantly,
Meet will
perform these
functions in the
cloud, with no
extra hardware
needed. While
Lachapelle
didn’t share his
screen, the
denoiser
presumably
works with a
toggle on the
Meet UI, or at
most a settings
adjustment.
Compare that
with Nvidia’s
RTX Voice beta,
which requires
both a pricey
Nvidia RTX GPU,
some softwareadjustment, and some app-by-app setup.
Denoisers are now relatively common as
tools for audio and video editors, and they’ve
begun appearing in other applications, too.
We just didn’t expect Google’s software to
work so damn well.Serge Lachapelle, G Suite director of product management released a video...... in which he demoed the new feature.