Discord, the world’s most-popular game voice chat software, has announced an improvement that might just make life more pleasant for gamers across the world: noise-cancelling.
The feature, which is only in beta, is meant to filter out the kind of background noise that can make voice chat annoying in the wrong circumstances. The idea is to let people only ever hear your voice, silencing any closing doors, running vacuums, or crinkling bags of Flaming Hot Cheetos that could disrupt conversation.
The technology comes from a partnership with Krisp, a free noise canceling app for Mac, Windows, Chrome and Android. The app lets you silence both your own noise and the noise for phone calls, and microphone usage.
While the ways that this could improve the experience of Discord users is obvious, Discord said that the feature is meant to help those who are forced to remain in noisy placed during the ongoing quarantine.
Since the feature is currently in beta, Discord warns that it won’t be perfect. The odd background noise is sure to find its way through to the chat even with the feature enabled. But it’s sure to be better than listening to a player who is stuck in a home with multiple loud brothers, sisters, kids or parents.
Discord’s noise suppression is already available for all users, but it only works on desktop for the time being. It can be found under the “voice and video” option in the settings, under the “Advanced” header.
Discord says they hope to roll out the noise-canceling capability to mobile users soon. Until that time, players who rely on their phones will just have to deal with the voice chat being the same quality it always has been.
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