As millions of people have pivoted to working from home, one noticeable struggle has been room echo — or reverb. It turns out that bedrooms, living rooms and kitchens — the new home offices for many aren’t ideal spaces for capturing digital audio.
The new Room Echo Removal feature takes care of that by removing the echoey sound of your voice in rooms with poor acoustics. That echo may not feel so bad at first, but after a long streaming session or more than 400 days of meetings from home, your audience or colleagues will thank you for getting rid of it.
In addition to the audio-based Room Echo Removal, bothersome video noise is also going to become a thing of the past. Lower quality cameras often can output “noise” — static that the audience can see on the video feed, especially in low-light situations. This is a complex challenge, one that will take some time to perfect — but the Video Noise Removal beta feature is a first step, helping to reduce video static to deliver a cleaner image.
Existing features also receive improvements. The new update further enhances the quality and performance of the popular audio noise removal tool, with added profiles to better separate the sound of cats, dogs and even insects (cicadas be gone!). Auto Frame is also getting an update with a “buffer zone” that will let the subject move within the frame, without the camera updating. Now, it’ll move only when the talent leaves the middle-third of the screen.
In addition to feedback we receive on the AI effects, we receive a ton of feedback on the app itself. One bit of feedback, now incorporated in the app, is being able to run multiple AI effects on a single device. Now users can combine Background Blur with Auto Frame, or any combination they choose.