NVIDIA Broadcast App FAQ

NVIDIA Broadcast transforms any space into a home broadcast studio, upgrading standard webcams and microphones into premium, smart devices through the power of AI. Improve the video and audio quality of your livestream with AI capabilities, such as virtual background, webcam auto frame, and microphone noise removal. With dedicated AI processors called Tensor Cores on GeForce RTX GPUs, the AI networks are able to run high-quality effects in real-time.

When not broadcasting, these features can also enhance your video conference calls and voice chats, making NVIDIA Broadcast a perfect AI companion for anyone.

The NVIDIA Broadcast app includes:

Microphone/Speaker

• Noise Removal: Remove distracting background sounds from your microphone feed so your audience can hear you loud and clear. NVIDIA Broadcast can also be used on incoming audio, so you don’t miss a beat in your voice chats. 
• Room Echo Removal: Use AI to filter out echo and reverb that typically occurs in small rooms, for clearer audio output.
• Studio Voice (beta): Studio Voice uses an AI equalizer to spectrally enhance your voice as if you’re recording from a high end studio.

Camera

• Virtual Background: use AI to remove the background of your webcam feed and replace it with game footage, a replacement image, or even a subtle blur. 
• Auto Frame: Dynamically track your movements in real-time, zooming and automatically cropping so you remain the star of the show—even as you move around.
• Video Noise Removal: Reduces camera noise typically found in low light situations
• Eye Contact: Simulates a lens effect by darkening the corners of the frame for cosmetic effect.
• Vignette: Simulates a lens effect by darkening the corners of the screen
• Virtual Key Light (beta): Stay camera-ready with automatic face relighting that reduces shadows and keeps you evenly lit during your livestreams.

The new Virtual Key Light and Studio Voice features are being released in beta so the community can experience and provide feedback to help us improve them.

Yes! In version 2.0.0 we introduced the ability to run more than one effect at a time. You may combine as many effects in your microphone, speaker and/or camera, as your GPU can handle. Not all effects can be combined.

Please note that combining effects increases impact on your system.

Video Noise Removal is an AI effect that reduces visual noise from your camera feed, which typically occurs in low light situations. This effect is useful for webcams, as their sensors oftentimes capture visual noise, giving off the appearance of a low-quality feed. Video Noise Removal cleans up the visual noise, providing higher picture quality akin to a premium webcam.

Room Echo Removal is an AI effect that reduces the room echo (or reverb) from your audio. This typically occurs when you have a space without sound isolation. This is particularly useful for users working or studying from home in smaller rooms without proper soundproofing acoustics.

NVIDIA Broadcast works with most PC microphones, speakers or headsets, and webcams. These include most recent models from popular manufacturers such as Logitech, Elgato, AverMedia, Razer, Asus, HyperX, SteelSeries, Rode and Bose.

Make sure that if your device has a similar feature to NVIDIA Broadcast (e.g. Noise Removal) you turn it off, so you don’t try to apply the same effect twice.

NVIDIA Broadcast is compatible with a wide range of broadcasting, video conferencing and voice chat apps. These include: OBS Studio, Streamlabs, Xsplit Broadcaster, HuYa, DouYu, Bilibili, Discord, TeamSpeak, Skype, Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Meet, and more.

NVIDIA Broadcast works by creating a virtual Windows camera, microphone, or speaker on your PC, so it appears to video or voice chat applications like a physical device.  Simply enable features from within the NVIDIA Broadcast app, then select the NVIDIA Broadcast device from your video or voice chat application.

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, Quadro RTX 3000, TITAN RTX, or higher
  
• RAM: 8GB of RAM
• OS: Windows 11 64-bit
• Driver: 570.xx or higher
• CPU: Intel Core i5 8600, AMD Ryzen r5 2600 or higher recommended
• Internet Connectivity during installation

Studio Voice (beta) and Virtual Key Light (beta) requires GeForce RTX 4080, 5080, or higher.

During the installation process, NVIDIA Broadcast will download the latest AI models for your GPU. This ensures that you have the latest version, and reduces the download size by only requiring you to download the models needed for your GPU.

No. The NVIDIA Broadcast app uses Tensor Cores on NVIDIA RTX GPUs to accelerate AI calculations so you can game, livestream and run AI networks at the same time.

For those of you that want to try out the AI noise removal capabilities but aren’t ready to upgrade to an RTX GPU yet, we are also patching RTX Voice with support for NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs. Though your mileage may vary on older cards.

You can download NVIDIA Broadcast here.

NVIDIA Broadcast includes noise removal capabilities based on the RTX Voice community beta and more. It also includes AI-assisted virtual background and auto frame features.

The performance impact will depend on the GPU, game, webcam resolution and frame rate, and number of effects used during the broadcast. But in general, we’ve measured the performance impact of the effects to be within 5% and 10% on a GeForce RTX 5090

Note that Studio Voice (beta) and Virtual Key Light (beta) were designed to push the quality of your mic and camera to the next level, and are intended to be used for non-gaming livestreaming (Just chatting), video conferencing, or content creation. They require a larger part of your GPU, and hence they are not recommended to be used while gaming or using a GPU intensive application.  

If you experience any performance issues, we recommend turning off effects you are not using at that time, and reducing the camera resolution and/or frame rate.

On the NVIDIA Broadcast app, click on the “Feedback” button in the upper left corner of the app

You can get support here: broadcast.nvidia.com/support

You can help us train the AI here: broadcast.nvidia.com/feedback

Developers interested in integrating the technology of NVIDIA Broadcast into their application can get access to the NVIDIA Broadcast Engine SDKs from our developer site: https://developer.nvidia.com/nvidia-broadcast-engine.

Studio Voice and Virtual Key Light(beta) requires GeForce RTX 4080, 5080 or higher.

As both effects are GPU intensive, these effects are suitable for non-gaming use cases (just chatting livestreams, video conferencing, content creation).