Microsoft is now fixing a very big problem in the video meeting industry, which has been an issue with Zoom, Google Meet, and many other competitors in the space right now. The company is now rolling out AI-based voice quality upgrades that will help every call participant hear each other. New machine learning models will be able to cancel echoes while reducing our coordinator options by eliminating echo-related overlaps.

This won’t stop people from hijacking the conversation, but it will help you raise an important point without disruption. This machine learning tech counters echoes by using a combination of roughly 100,000 simulated rooms and training from 30,000 hours of speech. Also, the processing happens on your device, which helps Microsoft cut costs on the server end and also makes sure the audio reduction happens quickly and across a wider range of users with different kinds of devices out there.

This feature is now live on Microsoft Teams, following months of testing as it comes in tandem with a lot more other upgrades. Microsoft is including, which includes AI improvements for bandwidth, limited video calls, optimizations for displaying texts, and more. Although this feature won’t help you pick Microsoft Teams over any other video meeting services like Zoom or Google Meet, it will help tip the balance of virtual meetings as it probably is still commonplace at your workplace.