The keyboard sound of noisy people in online meetings, Teams's "noise suppression" disappear.

The problem that is often encountered in Web meetings is the noise. When one of the participants uses a microphone to pick up the keystroke sound of the keyboard, the sound of life, nearby noise, etc., the attention becomes difficult to hear. The meeting of a small number of about 3 people does not have much impact, but the more the number of people, mixed with a variety of noise, the meeting will become chaotic.

Computer microphones can easily pick up "click" keystrokes while keystrokes are held at the same time as the keyboard is tapped. Sure enough, the sound of trains and ambulances will also be picked up by microphones.

What helps there is the "noise suppression" feature of Microsoft Teams. "it's hard to hear the sound of a frequency other than the sound of a person as noise," said the product marketing manager at Microsoft's Haruki Microsoft commercial headquarters in Japan. The sirens of ambulances can hardly be heard, and participants in Web meetings will not be bothered by superfluous sounds.

Noise suppression in late March 2021 will be available only for Windows Teams applications. To set noise suppression, click your own face icon at the top of the Teams screen (part of a name such as "clear" when not registered), and then select Settings from the menu that appears.

You can set suppress noise in the Devices menu item.

The initial setting is "automatic", and the standard level of noise suppression works. If it is "high", although it will have a stronger noise suppression effect, but the sound quality of the speaking voice is also easy to be damaged. If set to "low", only relatively low volume and persistent noise, such as the cooling fan of a personal computer, is removed. It may be effective if you want to convey the background music and the atmosphere. You can also choose close.

In principle, noise suppression is the function of suppressing sounds other than sound. Sounds close to the speaker's voice frequency are not suppressed. For example, even if a family is talking, such as a child, or a dog is barking, inhibition will not work.

To improve the sound problem, it's also good to re-examine the microphone before Teams. Instead of using a PC or phone's built-in microphone, such as a headset microphone and headset connected through cable or Bluetooth, even if it's just to let the microphone come near the mouth, there's a considerable improvement. As the headphones microphones and headphones sold in the market have separate headphones with noise suppression function, I hope to make good use of them.

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To output the sound of the next page of the computer directly at the Web meeting.