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by dgellow 450 days ago
Off topic: I hate so much what Krisp (the desktop app) has become. It was the perfect background noise cancelling tool, and now is asking permissions to record your whole screen and audio, for AI meeting companion features I couldn’t care about one bit. And they make it such a frustrating pain to opt-out, with constant modals tricking you in enabling all those AI features.

Does anyone know an alternative that achieves similar level of background noise cancelling?
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bartman 450 days ago
I've dropped Krisp after they transitioned from their 'old' app to the 'new' app in the most confusing way that I've ever seen. We were paying for a business subscription and suddenly the 'new' app only seemed to worked with a new type of subscription, the 'old' app did not get updates to support the newest macOS versions for months, ...

Since then we've been relying solely on Zoom's noise cancelling features and haven't been missing anything. They really improved massively over the years.

While it's not a drop in solution if you routinely need to join calls with other conferencing software, I haven't missed Krisp's after 'switching' 2 years ago.

If you're on Windows, NVIDIA Broadcast's AI Noise Removal has performed similarily well for me while gaming.

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dgellow 450 days ago
Yes, I really like NVIDIA broadcast. Unfortunately I work with macOS.

I will look again at zoom, last time I tried their noise canceling it would cut my sentences

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BoredPositron 450 days ago
I had good results with the built in macOS noise canceling.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-mic-modes-on-yo...

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phrotoma 450 days ago
It _was_ both the first and the most useful ML powered app I'd ever used and I couldn't get my credit card out fast enough after trying it. Now it won't leave me alone about new features I don't give a fuck about.
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khip 449 days ago
If you use Linux, we ported the older version of Krisp used by Discord to run natively.

https://codeberg.org/khip/khip

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fakedang 450 days ago
Is this the same Krisp.AI on the front page?
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dgellow 450 days ago
Yes. They switched from the best desktop noise cancelling software to a horrible mess of AI features supposed to help you with your meetings.

The app now really wants you to use their task tracking, transcripts, summaries, etc. But they have pretty frustrating UX, require invasive permissions. Every other day you get nagged into enabling features you already said no to 20 times

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