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Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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It isn't quite the same, but RNNoise is a neural-network based noise reduction aimed at dampening anything that isn't human voice. It works fantastic to me and almost always completely mutes my keyboard. (Sometimes it comes though a bit if I am talking at the same time.) This is easy integrated into Pulseaudio using PulseEffects ( https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects ). (The PulseEffects support is new, I used to use…

I've used this in Windows and it works pretty good. The filter isn't quite as good as RTXVoice and the installation can be... tricky[1], but it's less fiddly once you get it working.

[1] https://medium.com/@bssankaran/free-and-open-source-software...

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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It isn't quite the same, but RNNoise is a neural-network based noise reduction aimed at dampening anything that isn't human voice. It works fantastic to me and almost always completely mutes my keyboard. (Sometimes it comes though a bit if I am talking at the same time.) This is easy integrated into Pulseaudio using PulseEffects ( https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects ). (The PulseEffects support is new, I used to use…

I've just used a little script that sets up https://github.com/werman/noise-suppression-for-voice and it's worked wonderfully, but PulseEffects and NoiseTorch seem cool!

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try Unclack? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25644828

I presume he/she meant - Is there a way to get RNNoise working on Mac?

| sed 's/he\/she/they/'

I presume they meant: "Is there a way to get RNNoise working on Mac?"

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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It isn't quite the same, but RNNoise is a neural-network based noise reduction aimed at dampening anything that isn't human voice. It works fantastic to me and almost always completely mutes my keyboard. (Sometimes it comes though a bit if I am talking at the same time.) This is easy integrated into Pulseaudio using PulseEffects ( https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects ). (The PulseEffects support is new, I used to use…

Any recommendation for mac?

Here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/59808919/1660678

Then you still get a FAILED: meson-install Permission denied: '/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2' error, so change INSTALL_DIR_MAC in install.sh to~/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2 and install via the github page

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