As you know, the Covid-19 pandemic has forced millions of French to resort to telework. It’s a godsend for sites and tools developed for remote working. Zoom withdrew from the game very quickly with exponential growth before being overtaken by security issues. Skype and Microsoft Teams also increased the number of users.
Of course, Google couldn’t miss such an opportunity. That’s why Google decided to make Google Meet free at the end of April 2020. We would like to remind you that the instant messaging service was previously reserved for G Suite subscribers. Now all you need is a Gmail address to use the service.
Google Meet can appeal to regular users of Google apps and services by offering a secure and interconnected experience with other Google services (for example, the possibility of starting a conference from Gmail). After some replicating innovations directly inspired by Zoom, Google Meet gets an anticipated feature on Thursday, June 11: reduction of ambient noise.
It is possible to work in peace
Colleagues can sometimes find it hard to focus when millions of people are working from home, children screaming in bedrooms, or dogs dying in the garden barking. For “reduce background distractions” Google leveraged the expertise of the staff of Limes Audio, a startup acquired by the web giant in 2018.
Developers are a custom artificial intelligence that can distinguish between your voice and ambient sounds. By machine learning or French machine learning, this AI has trained over millions of YouTube videos as well as internal video conferences at Google. As G Suite product manager Serge Lachapelle points out, this AI and, accordingly, functionality is meant to improve over time.
For now, ambient noise reduction is already available for G Suite subscribers and National Education officials. Until the end of June 2020, all users will be able to enjoy it in the web version.. For mobile apps, the functionality will be rolled out a little later without further details.
Source: Google
