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TonyRedmond
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Nov 17, 2020

How Noise Suppression Works in Teams Meetings

  An update to the Teams Windows client introduces automatic noise suppression for Teams meetings. You can tune suppression up or down to reflect your environment. The feature works by analyzing th...
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ecovonrein
Iron Contributor
Dec 01, 2021

Ivar EngenRecently, I have no end of problems with my mic. I noticed that when in a Teams call I click "...", I can select "Device Settings".  That opens up a rail on the rhs.  In there, you will find a sub section "Noice Suppression".  There I can select different levels.  Sadly, selecting "off" does not appear to solve my problems.

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RRuddock
Copper Contributor
Feb 11, 2022

I’ve the same issue. Turning off noise suppression has no effect. Unless I speak loud enough it just cuts out. Working like a noise gate setting. When I test mic response I see the ‘bars’ even when I speak quietly but it appears to not be a high enough dB to active the gate and let the sound through to teams. I’ve recorded directly on windows using recorder and it gets everything fine.

doing a ‘test call’ works fine too just not during a live meeting. 

So OFF is not actually ‘Off’

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    ecovonrein
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 11, 2022
    I (seem to have) solved my problem in the end by going into Control Panel/Sound/Manage/Recording/[Mic]/Properties/Advanced. There is a box to "Enable audio enhancements". After I disabled those, I no longer received complaints from interlocutors.
    • Jeff Polen's avatar
      Jeff Polen
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 29, 2022
      That setting causes a multitude of audio issues, not enhancements. Well done!

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