Microsoft launched a new Canary test construction for Windows yesterday that brings the company's Voice Clarity feature, which previously only worked on Surface devices, to all Windows machines, including those using ARM CPUs. The company says in a blog post that the feature uses “low-complexity ai models” to filter out background noise, echo, and reverb in real time.
If Voice Clarity works well enough, its obvious best use case is to make Zoom or Teams meetings less unbearable; After all, how many times have you found yourself lost because someone is giving a presentation while standing 10 feet away from a laptop, their voice? awash in a sea of reverberation or echo? Or haven't you been able to concentrate on what you're saying because your every word is being answered through another attendee's microphone?
Microsoft says PC games can also use the voice chat feature, where, again, it will use ai to suppress unwanted background noise. The build also provides immediate access to photos and screenshots from connected Android devices and a new Windows setup procedure that the company says has “a much cleaner, more modern design.” It also adds the 80Gbps upgrade to USB4.
