A Microsoft Teams új mesterséges intelligencia funkciója megszüntetheti a fejhallgató iránti igényt

The continued use of AI to improve conversations in Microsoft Teams is delivering improvements across several areas, the company said Monday. Here’s an important one: You might not need your computer headset any more.

A Microsoft évekkel ezelőtt megkezdte a munkát ezen a területen, és hozzáadta a segítséget szűrje ki a háttérzajt más beszélgetésektől, kutyák ugatásától stb. Hétfőn a Teams csapata több további fejlesztést is bemutatott mind a hang, mind a videó terén.

For one, Microsoft said that it’s been able to achieve better performance during Teams calls where users nem using a headset. Mics and speakers are often placed close to one another on a laptop, and they could easily create a feedback loop as incoming audio from a speaker was received from a mic and then rebroadcast — that’s why headsets are used today. Microsoft said that it’s been able to eliminate that feedback through echo cancellation, eliminating the need for a headset. It also uses what it knows of the room you’re sitting in to improve the audio quality, too. This subtle “de-reverberation” should help to make background echoes a thing of the past, Microsoft said.

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Microsoft said that it’s also used AI to improve two-way conversations, allowing a user to interrupt to ask a question. Teams now uses AI to better pick up a user’s voice, allowing a user to “talk back” to a participant.

To be fair, Microsoft didn’t explicitly claim that the computer headset is dead. But by trumpeting many of its new audio improvements, it certainly undercuts the argument that you should spend an additional $40 to $100 or so just to make your voice clearer on video calls.

Video, too, has improved. Teams now offers a feature to auto-adjust your webcam’s lighting to help you look better in a Teams meeting. Teams will also add a “soft” focus when it thinks it will make you look better, too. Finally, Teams has also implemented a new feature to optimize the content you’re sharing, so that video will stream smoothly and still images will offer crisper detail.

A Microsoft korábban más mesterséges intelligencia által vezérelt funkciókat is bevezetett, mint például egy AI által vezérelt szemkontaktus funkció that creates the appearance that you’re gazing attentively at the person you’re talking to. Microsoft sometimes tests out these features on specific devices; for example, Eye Contact was originally launched as a feature specific to the Surface ProX. Áprilisban a Microsoft kiadott egy funkciót a Surface Laptop Stúdió az úgynevezett Voice Clarity, amely automatikusan beállítja a rögzített hang hangerejét, ha elfordul a mikrofontól vagy sétál a szobában. Az alábbiakban megtekinthet egy Microsoft-videót, amely bemutatja a Voice Clarityt.

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