Earlier this year, Nvidia introduced beta software, RTX and Voice to process TVs and suppress almost all background noise, and it worked surprisingly well. My colleague John Port lost the sound of his clapping mechanical keyboard completely disappeared. Today, Nvidia has released a subsequent application called Broadcast, and it is now available for download.
Nvidia Broadcast is a follow-up to RTX and Voice Is Beta and introduces two new AI-powered features: Virtual Background and Auto Toe Frame. Nvidia says the noise removal feature has also now reduced performance and supports three times the number of sound profiles.
The new Virtual Background allows you to remove the background of your webcam feed and replace it with game footage or an image saved on your hard drive, but you can also obscure your background completely. It looks great, and the background blur is reminiscent of many portrait mode shots you can take with a new phone.
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Auto toe frames serve as a cameraman in your own reality TV show. Your webcam zooms in on you, and the graphics card’s AI keeps you in the frame by following your head’s movements, even if you’re not in front of your computer.
And of course, muffling will try to suppress any background noise from your microphone feed, like my twin brother’s Pomeranian, who barks every time someone knocks on the doorbell. Or a friend who doesn’t know how to enable push-to-enable while we play CS: Go.
To use Nvidia Broadcast, you will need RTX GPU – RTX 2060, 2070, 2080, 2080 T and its super variants, Titan or Quadro RTX, as well as the new RTX 3080 (if you are lucky enough to buy). However, if you prefer to see what the fuss is about, you can download the patch version of RTX and Voice, which now supports older graphics cards. Just note that Nvidia says “your mileage varies” with older GPUs.
