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Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by kevincox »

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 NoiseTorch (https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch) which is more dedicated but has a weird UI and some other downsides)

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by rcthompson »

kevincox wrote: post #2

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 can testify that these RNNoise-based methods work quite well at removing background noise, including keyboard clacking, even while talking and typing at the same time.

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by colmvp »

It's a really cool idea. I also see a potential benefit to preventing acoustic keyboard eavesdropping. I've seen some newish streamers not show their screen when doing something sensitive like logging in somewhere, but you can still hear their keyboard.

On a slightly related note, I quite like listening to mechanical keyboard sounds when my favorite programmers are doing a stream. I ended up buying one for myself because I just had to hear the sound up close. Mmm...

Re: Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

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Post by lawl »

kevincox wrote: post #2

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…

> and some other downsides

Can you elaborate? (maintainer here, always interested in feedback)

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