- When a company tries
to sell you something using AI these days, I immediately get a little bit skeptical. It's kind of just thrown around all over the place, especially at CES. And sometimes it's great,
other times not so much. So where does NVIDIA's new RTX Voice fall? Apparently, they can
use AI and the RTX cores on your graphics card, that you're probably not actually using, to remove background noise
and crap from your stream. Like you know, you're streaming along, and you're using these really
inconvenient blue switches that are pretty loud for everyone else, but maybe this will get rid of that. I don't know, let's test it out. I don't have super high hopes for this, but at the same time, I've seen some stuff on
Twitch from Barnacules that looks really promising. So, I don't know, let's give it a try, see what the limits are. So, setting up RTX Voice is
actually really quite easy. All that you have to do is go
to this website right here, and click download the app. It should install pretty easily, assuming that you have a RTX card and the driver 410.18 or newer. So you know, probably good
there, that was quite an old one. So pretty much all that you
get, is this right here. It's this tiny little window
that says NVIDIA RTX Voice. You have your input
device, your output device and you just select which one you want. So microphone right here,
output device default. I think that's totally fine, and then you click remove background noise
from my microphone, and you get to choose how much noise suppression you have here. Okay, so this is a sound recording of the MSI GS66 Stealth and me speaking. This is RTX off, and now
we are turning RTX on. Okay, honestly I couldn't
tell any difference there, because the mic just was
not picking up the computer. So, let's try test number two. You know, you have that absolute jerk that's always in your discord that bought some blue switches. And you know, he's just
typing away all the time, and with any luck, there's not going to be really
any stuff in here right now. We're turning RTX off. And maybe you get a bunch of sounds now. Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. And you know, he's just
typing away all the time. And with any luck. Wow. You actually can barely hear the typing. I was completely hammering it there. Yeah, that's crazy, how
much of a difference it is. So, if you're one of those
jerks that is using blues, get this right now, pretty please. Oh, we have Linus here. So Linus is going to do a kids
in the background test here. - Yep, so we're just gonna try and have a civilized
call between adults here while there's screaming
children in the background. Okay, guys, go ahead,
play games and make noise. Okay so, this is what it sounds like without background noise suppression. Now I'm just gonna go
ahead and turn that on. And let's see if that makes a difference. It's on now. Is it blocking out the
kids behind me, Alex? Do you have any commentary? I'm gonna go ahead and turn
the suppression off again. Does it make it any easier to hear me? - It's really not all that different. You can't really hear
the kids in either one. I think that it did cut out a tiny bit when you turned it on. - Okay, I'm gonna turn
it back on for a second. - Yeah, tell your kids to be louder. - Okay, so this is more like
what I think you're asking for. So I'm gonna go ahead and turn my background
noise suppression off. Is it more annoying now? - That's really quite a annoying, yes. - I'm gonna go ahead and turn
my noise suppression back on. There, is that an improvement?
- Wow. - Or is that basically the same thing? - That is such an improvement, yeah. Oh, it's so much better. You can kinda tell that there's kids.
- That does make a difference. Interesting, because, I mean, this is such a close
proximity style microphone. That I'd hadn't really honestly expected it to make much of a difference. I don't know if you notice, but I did go ahead and
toggle it back off there. - Yeah, they are very loud. - I'm gonna go ahead
and turn it back on now, because--
- Wow. - Realistically nobody
wants to listen to this. Parents don't wanna listen to this, grandparents don't wanna listen to this, it's a miracle children survived in the
wild, quite honestly. - No, yeah, that's
actually really impressive. You would think that the
children are politely playing in the background right now, when you have RTX on. Where as like, when it's
off, it's like (growls). - That is truly fantastic. All right, cool. Happy to help. - All right, thank you, sir. All right, so kids very successful. I'm actually super impressed by that, but can it do the vacuum? Come in here, Mr. Andy. (vacuum cleaner droning) All right, just give her. You have to stay six feet away though. Get back there. Hey Guys! This is my stream coming
from my nice quiet apartment. I'm just gonna go ahead and turn RTX on and see if that improves
your lives at all. That is so much better. (rhythmic drum music) So we are recording here, and I am making a total racket with this, but if we just go ahead and turn RTX on, I wonder how good of a job it is doing. If we just go ahead and turn RTX on, I wonder how good of a job it is doing. It's actually kinda hard
to use a drum at once, and also speak at the same. Ha. But I think I'm doing
a not to bad job of it. So, it's like kind of
making it sound weird. My voice level is kind of going
up and down a whole bunch, but at the same time, you can't hear the drum. So you guys might
remember this right here. Its the good old Blowie Matron. This thing draws something
like 500 watts at full load. So I'm gonna be really surprised if, you know, RTX is
able to get rid of it. So this is just for safety. If you guys have seen our
video on the Blowie Matron, it goes up to about 11,000 RPM, and it will legitimately
chop your finger off if it ends up there. So hopefully that'll keep it in one place. (fan whirring).
Oh, there we go. All right. So we are now current limited at 5.2 amps. I think this thing's able
to do about 92 decibels. So you actually don't wanna
be around it for too long. So I'm just going to start speaking into this microphone here, and I'm going to turn RTX on. And I'm going to be genuinely impressed, holy, (laughs), if it's able to get rid of that. I'm also just gonna just
start playing the drum, because, you know what, we're gonna just make the
loudest possible racket. It totally got rid of it. I'm playing the drum and the fan, and you just can't hear it at all. Thank you, Andy. Join in with the noise! That's insane. Okay, yeah, so just go back here. Stay six feet away. The siren. - You want the siren thing? - Yeah, I want the siren.
- All right, you asked for it. (siren wails) - Hello! I am speaking into this microphone and I am going to be very impressed if RTX is able to get rid of this. So, we are talking right now. Hello! I am speaking into this microphone and I am going to be very impressed if RTX is able to get rid of this. You can actually tell what I'm saying. We are talking right now, and I'm going to turn RTX off. So I don't know, all right, (laughs). All right so I have to
give it to you, NVIDIA. RTX Voice, it is great! We just had a megaphone, a server fan, and a vacuum, and a drum,
all playing at the same time, and you can tell what I'm saying. The problem is just that I'm
peaking in the microphone. How, did they do that? (laughs) All right, well, I think
that's about the end. I don't think we can make
anymore of a racket than that. So, I don't know. I hope that you guys have a good old day. That was fun. Anyway, get subscribed. Bye, I'm shocked.
Just have to add, rtx filtering isn't "new". It's been around for atleast 1-2 years.
I haven't tested if it removes any of my offending sounds yet, but I've seen demos where it removes banging, scratching etc. Can it remove lipsmacking or eating sounds?
Wish more filtered noises. I can't listen to anyone podcast or youtube who makes lip smack noises everytime they talk. Ruins a lot of good content.
Its called RTX Voice by nvidia and is free
Here's the setup guide: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice-setup-guide/
This does require your computer to have an nvidia graphics card, I just set it up and I'm impressed with how well it filters out these sounds. It uses AI to filter out particular annoying sounds, like if you're taking classes on zoom or doing conference calls, there's often someone with a loud ass keyboard or annoying kids in the background. This software pretty much completely gets rid of it.
RTX voice does live filtering of sound so it works on youtube videos or anything playing audio.
It would be great if we could get enough support to have nvidia add the ability to filter out other sounds, for me sibilance (lisps) are my biggest trigger. I could see this software being used to help people with misophonia in the future.
Requirements: To use RTX Voice, you must be using an NVIDIA GTX or RTX graphics card, update to Driver 410.18 or newer, and be on Windows 10.
Edit: here's a similar software that's also free and doesn't require an Nvidia graphics card, I don't know how well it compares to RTX voice, but its worth a shot: https://krisp.ai/
Nice trick if you already a gaming/streaming computer with an RTX since the software is free, but if you don't it's going to be an expensive party trick.
Those cards aren't cheap.
EDIT: Read the thing when I went to install it. It works with most Nvidia cards that don't need legacy drivers (so from GeForce series 600 upwards, which came out in 2010 or 2011). So the cheapest Nvidia GPU available (I think GT 710?) is aroung 40 bucks and can run RTX voice.
Still out of luck if you have an AMD GPU or a laptop with integrated graphics, though.
editing of the video is kinda confusing but... I do need that software... whatever software it is