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Your IT department also has an important role to play in improving the quality of virtual meeting experiences. If they don’t see the prompt, Teams will automatically mute the participant’s microphone and speakers upon joining – circumventing a potential distraction.

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When Teams notices that a participant is joining via their PC in a conference room, Teams will prompt them to “join with audio off” since the conference room device will manage the audio. For example, the dreaded echo or howling noise is caused when multiple devices are present and connected in the same room. Teams actively helps people improve the quality of the meeting by offering suggestions to optimize their audio and video experience based on their work environment. Teams continually monitors audio quality and adapts accordingly to keep participants engaged in the meeting. When Teams detects an unable network, it automatically attempts to recover some of the lost data to deliver smooth, clear audio. When bandwidth is poor, some of the audio information gets lost in transmission, which causes the choppy audio that we’ve all become too familiar with. Teams also pays attention to the strength of the network and adapts as needed. To help with these challenges, our latest innovation is a new audio codec, Satin, which offers great audio quality at a bitrate as low as 6kbps, making meetings sound natural and clear even when the network has low bandwidth. There are many scenarios that can contribute to low bitrate – parents and children sharing the household’s network for meetings and classes, high cost of large data plans, and many more. With more virtual meetings, many users require great call quality even when your network is limited. Satin: A new audio codec for great quality even in low bandwidth While traditional noise suppression can only address simple stationary noise sources such as a consistent fan noise, our AI-based approach learns the difference between speech and unnecessary noise and is able to suppress non-stationary noises such as keyboard typing, crunching of paper or food wrappers, and vacuuming. Our new noise suppression feature works by analyzing an individual’s audio feed and uses AI to filter out noise and only retain speech.

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See this support article for details about how to turn it on here.

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You can enable this helpful new feature by adjusting your device settings before your call or meeting and selecting 'High' in the 'Noise suppression' drop-down (note this feature is currently only supported in the Teams Windows desktop client). READ MORE: Reduce background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings with AI-based noise suppression We are excited to announce that you will have the ability to remove unwelcome background noise during your calls and meetings with our new AI-based noise suppression option. Whether it be multiple meetings occurring in a small space, children playing loudly nearby, or construction noise outside of your home office, unwanted background noise can be distracting in Teams meetings. Born in the cloud and built with Microsoft AI at its core, Teams uses AI to remove unwanted sounds, monitor quality and adapt as needed, give users more information and proactive actions, and provide insight into issues before they disrupt meetings.

With Microsoft Teams, we want to give people more control over the digital quality of their meetings. However, in the moments when technology fails us, it seems there’s nothing we can do but keep going and hope the problem resolves quickly. Poor audio and visual quality can hijack a meeting, inhibiting focus, wasting time, and in the long term, causing meeting fatigue. A person suddenly gets booted off the call. Someone’s audio breaks up while they’re making an important point. An echo or unidentifiable background noise cuts in. In this series, we share best practices and highlight new features in Teams and the Microsoft 365 service designed to help your teams achieve more together.Īs many of us have experienced, meetings often get derailed by unintentional distractions. Millions of people around the world rely on Teams to collaborate via meetings, calls, and chat.

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This is the second in a series of blog posts focused on helping you get the most out of your meetings and calls with Microsoft Teams. Part 2: Re-setting the bar for meeting and call quality

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