Mute Your Microphone While Typing with Hushboard

Post by stygiansonic » Sat, Jan 09, 2021, 5:47 PM UTC

nucleardog wrote: post #39

minimaxir wrote: post #37

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RNNoise is also available as a native voice filter in OBS and it works very well there.

For anyone going down this path, it's relatively easy to kinda use OBS as your audio pipeline for other programs. (Easy in the "for people on HN" sense, not easy in the "my mom would do this" sense.) Only caveat is that you need to leave OBS running in the background doing its thing whenever you need your microphone. (Instructions for Windows. The OBS stuff would be the same, you'll just need to figure out your own s…

Post by nucleardog » Tue, Jan 12, 2021, 10:17 AM UTC

telesilla wrote: post #62

nucleardog wrote: post #44

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For what it's worth, I tried it and it was... not great? Versus piping my audio through OBS as a way of using RNNoise and doing noise gating, OBS retains the original audio quality quite well and does a really good job of removing clicks/clacks/etc. Krisp made my voice sound like I was talking through two tin cans and a string, and, at least in my environment, did not do a very good job of actually removing any of th…

I've only had excellent experience with Krisp, but I have a semi-pro USB mic I use so perhaps it makes all the difference. Sounds great also with a macbook built-in mic. That said, I'm interested to see open source alternatives as I'm interested to see how they work.