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The latest Google Meet feature is designed to enhance the sound of your video calls.
Google Meet added a notable new feature in June for those who use the video conferencing service through computers. Now this excellent service is coming to smartphones. At the end.
It’s quite an impressive effect, as you can see in the Venture Beat demo, below. It means weird noises, like fingers clattering on keyboards, potato chip packets moving (works with other snack wrappers too), and dogs barking at the wrong time.
But, and here’s the smart thing, if you’re talking while typing, creaking, or when the dog barks, you’ll filter out other noises and let your voice come through loud and clear.
Google says it also works with door slamming, nearby construction noises, and more. It uses artificial intelligence to find out which is your voice and which is not, so unless your voice sounds like a dog’s, it should work for you. Google notes that it is listening to our non-voice noises, so if someone is speaking or there are voices on a nearby TV, they will not leak.
Just one suggestion though, if you are in a meeting, you could focus better if you don’t have the TV on in the background.
However, the implementation on smartphones, as reported on the Google blog and picked up by 9to5Google, is still not for everyone.
If you’re a G Suite Enterprise or G Suite Enterprise for Education customer, you’ll get it.
But if your Google Meet service is G Suite Basic, G Suite Business, G Suite for Education, or G Suite for Non-Profits, then it won’t come for you, at least not yet.
The rollout started in the last few hours and there are a few other exclusions by territory – it is currently not available in South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and surrounding locations, Google says.
It is very simple to use without administrator control. It’s off by default, so all you have to do is turn it on. You can do this during a call just by tapping More, then Settings, then Noise Cancellation on iPhone, iPad, and Android device. Also, on a computer, you can check how much noise will be canceled by using the Preview function to see what others can hear.
Google also recommends not activating the feature if lack of voice is an important part of your call. By this they mean that if you’re playing a musical instrument, you probably don’t want to mute it, right?
Microsoft Teams has a similar feature, but Google Meet is especially impressive.
The new mobile feature comes shortly after Google Meet added several cool additional features for Chrome on Mac and Windows: tiled layouts for up to 49 people, and background blur options. Mobile app support is coming soon, Google says.
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